Television tonight: what's worth watching?

[fuzzy]

Mrs F has recently gained access to More4. As a result, she is watching lots of Walter Presents stuff.
There are some cracking dramas on there.

[fd3]

^ I enjoyed "Spin" and a number of German and Skandi shows. There's a lot of "foreign trash" though, so you need to keep an eye out.

[Legs]

Mrs L and I are watching Waking The Dead from the beginning, on iPlayer.  How dated do cars from 2000 look?  Makes me feel old...

[Nuncio]

Not tonight, but no doubt on iPlayer if you missed the beginnings Once Upon a Time in Iraq. What an indictment of the invasion. Blistering stuff.

Agreed. Painful to watch at times. Thought-provoking. I'm learning a lot, mostly about the  number of untruths, the level of incompetence, the misjudgements and the missed opportunities by the Americans (I knew it was bad, but...); and the effect all that had on the innocent inhabitants of Iraq. Just what happens when you go to war, I suppose, and haven't thought about what you need to do when you win.

[Nuncio]

The Edge on BBC2 on Sunday evening was very good. It covered the arc of the the England test team from one 5-0 disastrous Ashes series to another, having reached No 1in the world in between; roughly Andy Flowers' period as head coach from 2007-2015. It was less about the cricket itself than the effects (good and bad) test cricket and a certain style of management had on the players. And it featured some candid interviews with the likes of KP, Jonathan Trott, Steven Finn, Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower. Also a mix of behind-the-scenes and tv footage, and some original 'arty' shots. The blurb described it as 'funny' but I must have missed those bits unless they were referring to Graeme Swann's arsing around, or Jonathan Trott's OCD. Or maybe it was because Toby Jones was narrating, which was fine, but jarred a bit when things got dark.

[Legs]

Mrs Legs and I were watching this Grand Designs a few nights ago and were struck by the lack of compliance to Part K of the Building Regulations (38:30 through).

[Quisling]

The third series of Norsemen (billed as Series 0 since it's a prequel) on Netflix.  Provides some great background to the characters who were introduced in Series 1.  Fantastic scandi comedy and well acted.  Not for the kids though - frequent themes of sex and violence (well, they are Vikings....)

[andyoxon]

Chernobyl mini series, with a NowTV one week free trial...  Very well done.  Scary to think how much worse the disaster could have been.

[Kim]

There's no shortage of worse disasters to choose from.  They tend to involve killing lots of brown people, and don't involve anything nuclear, so tend not to get films made about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_disasters

[andyoxon]

There's no shortage of worse disasters to choose from.  They tend to involve killing lots of brown people, and don't involve anything nuclear, so tend not to get films made about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_disasters

Possible Chernobyl series spoiler, if you don't know the events...

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Once covered in sand/boron mix, the entire core of the reactor could have melted down into water in tanks below, if they hadn't been quickly drained, then exploded taking the remaining 3 reactors with it - force of ~2 megatons, killing huge numbers, including Kiev, and rendering large aeas of Europe/Russia uninhabitable.

[rafletcher]

There's no shortage of worse disasters to choose from.  They tend to involve killing lots of brown people, and don't involve anything nuclear, so tend not to get films made about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_disasters

Bhopal is the one that comes to mind first.

[Mr Larrington]

There's no shortage of worse disasters to choose from.  They tend to involve killing lots of brown people, and don't involve anything nuclear, so tend not to get films made about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_disasters

Bhopal is the one that comes to mind first.

A former employer did manage to flog Union Carbide their The Product, viz. the Suite for the Assessment of Flammable, Explosive and Toxic Impacts.  Unfortunately about three years after Bhopal.  That the scale of the disaster vindicated our mathematical models was scant consolation.

[rafletcher]

Well worth catching on iPlayer...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ljnb

[mattc]

The Edge on BBC2 on Sunday evening was very good. It covered the arc of the the England test team from one 5-0 disastrous Ashes series to another, having reached No 1in the world in between; roughly Andy Flowers' period as head coach from 2007-2015. It was less about the cricket itself than the effects (good and bad) test cricket and a certain style of management had on the players. And it featured some candid interviews with the likes of KP, Jonathan Trott, Steven Finn, Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower. Also a mix of behind-the-scenes and tv footage, and some original 'arty' shots. The blurb described it as 'funny' but I must have missed those bits unless they were referring to Graeme Swann's arsing around, or Jonathan Trott's OCD. Or maybe it was because Toby Jones was narrating, which was fine, but jarred a bit when things got dark.

Caught the 2nd half - surprisingly good. That squad were a very diverse bunch, they did well to give us insight into so many different personalities.

[rafletcher]

Another iPlayer programme worth a watch, The Australian Dream about Adam Goode’s, an Indigenous  AFL player and the racism he suffered. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lpv7

And for those with access to PBS, today and tomorrow the informative, and somewhat depressing (to me anyway) The Truth About Fat

[geoff]

Might be giving Baron Noir a go..., whilst waiting for Season 5 of The Bureau

[fd3]

If you are considering watching Mr Robot on Prime and ...

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... have seen Fight Club, then the very fact I'm mentioning the two together is a massive spoiler for the "clever twist" at the end of series one.  They even use the same Pixies tune for the reveal in a fit of uniqueness the like I have not seen since a Bond film.

[eckagain]

The David Millar "Time Trial" fillum is on the BBC Scotlandshire channel this Saturday 19th at 9pm. 

[robgul]

The David Millar "Time Trial" fillum is on the BBC Scotlandshire channel this Saturday 19th at 9pm. 

Prepare to be disappointed . . . . . . . in my opinion anyway - I saw it at a "special screening" and along with most of the audience came away having felt it was a waste of the ticket price.

Cue othere comments . . .

[rafletcher]

BBC4, Saturday 21:00  The second TV series of Mystery Road. The dramatisation of the Jay Swan stories, a character originally seen in the films Mystery Road and Goldstone.

[Mr Larrington]

BBC4, Saturday 21:00  The second TV series of Mystery Road. The dramatisation of the Jay Swan stories, a character originally seen in the films Mystery Road and Goldstone.

One day I'll get round to watching Series 1, which has been a-lurking in the innards of the Memory-Box since it was first broadcast 

[eckagain]

I'm not saying it's "worth watching" but The Armstrong Lie is on Sky Documentaries at 9pm... if you like That Sort of Thing™?

[geoff]

The long-awaited season 5 of The Bureau... Now available on the Sundance Now bit of Prime video in the UK. 10 Eps a must watch. Just need Spiral S8 to complete the box sets...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bureau_(TV_series)

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[Andy W]

Just watched DES. A programme about Denis Nielsen a serial killer. Really awful, macabre scenes, turned my stomach., Mrs W really wanted to watch it, and we ended up discussing what on earth would turn someone into a monster. On a lighter note, looking at film of London 1980 looks like a different country. I think there's a, saying that goes"the past is a different country ".
Earlier on this thread, Legs said year 2000 looks old, I agree, but looking at the 1980 footage of 1970s motor transport reminded me of having to bump start both my motorbike and my dad's car. Squirting a product stalled Danp Start into the carburettor to aid starting. Driving a car with steamed up windows, whilst operating the choke, steering, changing gear etc. Funny how watching a programme sets off a whole series of memories. Wish I was 19 again, motorbikes and women and not a care in the world.

[eckagain]

The David Millar "Time Trial" fillum is on the BBC Scotlandshire channel this Saturday 19th at 9pm. 

Prepare to be disappointed . . . . . . . in my opinion anyway - I saw it at a "special screening" and along with most of the audience came away having felt it was a waste of the ticket price.

Cue othere comments . . .

Aye robgul, I see what you mean. Ok, some excellent visuals, especially the wet Milan - San Remo,  but it came across as more than a little self-indulgent.
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