Chef’s Table - brilliantly filmed about the (allegedly) best Chef’s and Restaurants in the World. Apart from the food itself, some of the locations and scenery are also astonishing
Spoiler alert: they’ve almost all had something dreadful happen in their past to make them as driven as they are.
Just watched the first episode of ‘the accident’. Could be interesting but I could not stop thinking about Aberfan.
Britain’s Lost Masterpieces was back on BBC4 last night.
Usually very interesting and a mash up between art restoration, histories of the artists, the sitter and locations together with some intensive detective work. Last night’s was no exception.
In a way it’s a shame much of this is squeezed into an hour long programme each time, as I imagine the legwork involved in everything from initial research to filming permissions must be staggering.
(Again after watching ep2) ‘Guilt’ BBC iPlayer…Still superb
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Catching up on ‘his dark materials’.
I’m Hooked
Just about to watch the first episode, it looks interesting.
Incredibly close in almost every respect to the original feature film ‘The Golden Compass’ based on ‘His Dark Materials’. So close that I wonder if they have borrowed (or paid to use) some of the film’s original CGI.
I believe that ‘The Golden Compass’ was originally meant to be the first of a trilogy of films, but despite big commercial success the sequels were never made. Rumour has it that influence from the Catholic Church or the religious right in the USA put paid to the sequels.
No idea if this was true, but very much looking forward to the rest of this TV series.
I thought ‘The Golden Compass’ was an excellent adaptation of the first book of the first trilogy. I really couldn’t understand why it was panned by the critics. I personally felt Nicole Kidman made a far more convincing Mrs Coulter, and Daniel Craig knocked spots off James Mcevoy as Lord Asriel.
That said, I quite enjoyed the first episode of the Beeb’s offering, except for one thing; yet again, in a BBC drama, much of the dialogue was recorded at such a low level I was forced to use subtitles. Hopefully this may be remedied in future episodes.
What channel is that on???
Sure if playing through Naim amplification this should not be a problem? 
. However, I agree with you as I had to strain to understand the dialogue - I put it down to a lot of background sounds.
Call me old school, but my Naim will forever remain unsullied by telly sound - strictly hifi only! That said, my plasma’s sound is played back via a very fine quality Monitor Audio sound-bar which handles most dialogue really well. Except the rubbish sound put out occasionally by the BEEB (who remembers the Jamaica Inn fiasco - 2,200 complaints made of mumbling, indistinguishable dialogue).
Engrenages or Spiral on BBC 4 is now in its eighth excellent series about the totally dysfunctional Parisian police force. Knocks most British crime series into a cocked hat. Also pretty good for brushing up on colloquial French language and swearwords.
+1 for Engrenages. Very clever serial and dialogues too . The links between justice, police, population…are well rendered.
When we first started watching it a few seasons ago I wondered why they were all running around exclaiming ‘plutard!’
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Certainly wasn’t later! 
But it wasn’t ‘plus tard’!
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I am waiting now Ozark season 3. Should arrive soon.
I am watching American horror 1984 serial movie. I find it distracting. Funny too.
Some new twilight zone are not bad.
Pu**in!
Ah ok 
. Don’t you have British movies with a lot of f…k ending some dialogues ?
Yes, but I’ve never thought they were exclaiming ‘later!’
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