Author Topic: Television tonight: what's worth watching? (Read 364660 times)

Nuncio · « **Reply #2575 on:** 09 May, 2024, 10:59:03 pm »

I wonder if you've conflated a couple of Fry and Lauries.

Here they are, spoofing Robert Robinson (but not the families).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvQ3M3WaPA

And here is Fry, surveying a quantity of Laurie's whilst dancercizing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnPy9inVnqg

My best friend at school was on Ask the Family (father a solicitor).

Nuncio · « **Reply #2576 on:** 09 May, 2024, 11:13:06 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 09 May, 2024, 02:05:18 pm

There's something called "Quiz Ball", some horrendously complicated quiz for teams of footy players with celebrity backup, hosted by a teenaged David Vine.

I remember Quizball. I remember not understanding the rules but still being fascinated by it.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #2577 on:** 10 May, 2024, 06:23:26 am »

Dopesick on iPlayer. Brilliantly acted and shocking.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #2578 on:** 10 May, 2024, 06:48:40 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 09 May, 2024, 06:03:41 pm

Weren’t all the contestants on “Ask The Family” quantity surveyors* or was that some comedy show spoofing it?

* including the children

When BBC2 was 50, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse did Story of the Twos and mercilessly sent up many BBC2 shows, including Ask the Family. Probably not on iPlayer, but it used to be on YouTube and is well worth a watch. Simon Sharma is done to perfection...

citoyen · « **Reply #2579 on:** 10 May, 2024, 10:19:00 am »

Quote from: Nuncio on 09 May, 2024, 10:59:03 pm

I wonder if you've conflated a couple of Fry and Lauries.

Here they are, spoofing Robert Robinson (but not the families).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvQ3M3WaPA

Fry & Laurie were the first thing that came to mind for me. I'm sure they did other Robert Robinson-based sketches besides that one.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2580 on:** 10 May, 2024, 10:36:45 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 10 May, 2024, 10:19:00 am

Quote from: Nuncio on 09 May, 2024, 10:59:03 pm
I wonder if you've conflated a couple of Fry and Lauries.

Here they are, spoofing Robert Robinson (but not the families).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvQ3M3WaPA

Fry & Laurie were the first thing that came to mind for me. I'm sure they did other Robert Robinson-based sketches besides that one.

Magnus Magnusson is Icelandic for Robert Robinson. Trufax.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2581 on:** 13 May, 2024, 08:55:35 am »

We started watching 'Fallout'.
It is game made into TV miniseries, in case you don't know.

I thought the production values were brilliant, and it was funny. Mrs C thought it was 'boring'. Lasted 1.5 episodes. I'll probably watch it while she's away.

andyoxon · « **Reply #2582 on:** 13 May, 2024, 10:15:27 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 13 May, 2024, 08:55:35 am

We started watching 'Fallout'.
It is game made into TV miniseries, in case you don't know.

I thought the production values were brilliant, and it was funny. Mrs C thought it was 'boring'. Lasted 1.5 episodes. I'll probably watch it while she's away.

Feo, fuerte y formal.

Yes, v.good. I knew nothing about the game beforehand. Jonathan Nolan an exec producer, & director of some episodes.

Legs · « **Reply #2583 on:** 14 May, 2024, 02:27:19 pm »

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 10 May, 2024, 06:23:26 am

Dopesick on iPlayer. Brilliantly acted and shocking.

Started this this morning (Mum's recommendation). Shocking indeed.

Jakob · « **Reply #2584 on:** 19 May, 2024, 04:23:05 am »

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 13 May, 2024, 08:55:35 am

We started watching 'Fallout'.
It is game made into TV miniseries, in case you don't know.

I thought the production values were brilliant, and it was funny. Mrs C thought it was 'boring'. Lasted 1.5 episodes. I'll probably watch it while she's away.

It's very good, although I'm also a fan of the game.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2585 on:** 29 May, 2024, 07:46:48 am »

Watching Jonothan Strange and Mr Norrell.

Seems a pretty faithful adaption of the book, and more entertaining than I expected.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2586 on:** 30 May, 2024, 07:03:52 pm »

A Storyville from a couple of weeks ago. Praying for Armageddon. Depressing and terrifying

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2587 on:** 05 June, 2024, 11:07:26 pm »

I was rather hoping this one would pop up as part of the D Day commemorations.

BBC4 right now are showing "A Foreign Field". Leo McKern, Alec Guiness, Lauren Bacall. Yes, Lauren Bacall. A a tale of veterans meeting up many years after the war. Funny and poignant. AIUI Alec Guiness used his not inconsidrable influence to get it made. On iPlayer too.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2588 on:** 06 June, 2024, 11:25:41 am »

Also in iPlayer is Dennis Potter's "Blue Remembered Hills". First broadcast in 1979 as part of Play For Today, it has adult actors (Michael Elphick, Helen Mirren, Colin Welland and others) playing the parts of children. Set in The Forest of Dean, they don't All Live Happily Ever After. It is Dennis Potter after all.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2589 on:** 12 July, 2024, 08:31:46 am »

Rebus

The latest incarnation, with Richard Rankin (no relation).

Apart from possibly an excess of guns, this is rather good. Doesn't follow book storylines, it is a mishmash. But still good.

andrewc · « **Reply #2590 on:** 22 July, 2024, 10:50:56 pm »

I've just watched half of the first episode of "Those About To Die", and wish I had....

Reaches frantically for box set of "I, Claudius".......

fd3 · « **Reply #2591 on:** 23 July, 2024, 10:44:36 am »

^ the warning signs were all there!

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2592 on:** 23 July, 2024, 05:57:15 pm »

I've just started watching ER.

Yes, that ER.

Storylines seem dated by changes in technology. Pre mobile phones, let alone smartphones.

The famous George Clooney character (even I'd heard of him in ER) is a thoroughly dislikeable arse when he isn't doctoring. That's a surprise.

Kim · « **Reply #2593 on:** 23 July, 2024, 07:23:18 pm »

Also, all the drug names are in USAnian. This probably seems unremarkable now, but when it was first broadcast on Channel 4, it wasn't something BRITISH tellyviewers had experience of. My medic parents watched the first episode or two and turned it off in disgust ("GSW?^[1] Epi-what?"), so naturally I continued watching on general principle.

Never saw what the fuss was about wrt George Clooney.

_{[1] A term my dad first encountered on a tour of a hospital in Miami some years earlier.}

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #2594 on:** 24 July, 2024, 06:21:25 am »

I rewatched ER about two years ago from start to finish, about 1 episode per day. Still think it is brilliant.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2595 on:** 24 July, 2024, 02:17:15 pm »

You could always go further back in time and watch "St Elsewhere" (a contemporary series to Hill Street Blues) or come more up to date with "Nurse Jackie".