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  • That's what I try to do, because I don't want to be seen as doing the same as everyone else.


    Quite right, PET, and it's refreshing to read about a female office that doesn't wear leather gear and ride about on a 1000cc motorbike, and one that has personal issues regarding sexual orientation.
    I haven't finished you book, yet, as I'm working through a poetry course, but I will do, and will post a review highlighting this point.
  • Thanks, C2. Poetry courses, or any courses are good, as they immerse us in topics right across the writing spectrum. All the best with it!!
  • If anyone is looking for tip-top TV writing then check out Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty. Seriously excellent police drama. So much to learn from it.
  • edited April 2017
    If anyone is looking for tip-top TV writing then check out Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty. Seriously excellent police drama. So much to learn from it.
    I agree, Mike. Not formulaic like most police drama. Great plotting - so many twists and turns yet done in a way that's easy to follow. Really looking forward to the final episode next week.
  • Rewatching Life on Mars. OH doesn't remember seeing it first time round, which is a bonus for him! When was it first shown?
  • edited April 2017
    I never did watch that Lizy

    I have recently started watching Sherlock, as usual I am behind everyone else in these things, and I'm now up to season 3.

    Have to admit, this whole fascination with Benedict Cumberbatch now makes perfect sense to me. It's worrying that a sociopath can be so desirable.... (by sociopath I mean Sherlock there, I hear Benedict is actually rather lovely)
  • Don't see the attraction in either. Too skinny, self-absorbed and selfish. Give me Agent Gibbs every time!
  • Rewatching Life on Mars. OH doesn't remember seeing it first time round, which is a bonus for him! When was it first shown?
    2006-2007 apparently.
  • I second/third Line of Duty. Brilliant!
    My brother-in-law trained with Jed Mercurio (he studied Medicine, would you believe, but won a writing competition and went on from there). I also have a friend who used to go out with him! Great name, isn't it?
  • Jed Mercurio (he studied Medicine, would you believe, but won a writing competition and went on from there).
    Lucky it was that way round. Wouldn't fancy entering a surgery competition.
  • Odd, isn't it, knowing someone on TV? I've known Judy Parfitt for decades and she was on tonight in an Inspector Alleyn Mystery.
  • Anybody else watch Broken and cry at the end?

    Just me then?

    No worries *staggers off sobbing into pinnie*
  • You're wearing a pinnie with shorts? *reads all the threads*
  • Didn't say it twere me own pinnie did I?
  • So nobody cried? Or nobody watched it?
  • Didn't watch it. We had Hettie Wainthropp then New Tricks. Didn't cry.
  • I have seen a few of them, Dora, but not the blubbity blub one. Thought some were better than others.
  • Hi Dora I saw Broken and loved, loved it! Best thing on TV for ages. I have always been a huge Sean Bean fan ( enjoyed Lady Chatterley with him in very much :) ) but this is his best performance so far and he should get a BAFTA . He portrayed a priest so well, I'd confess all to him! :) I cried at the end...
  • Hi Dora I saw Broken and loved, loved it! Best thing on TV for ages. I have always been a huge Sean Bean fan ( enjoyed Lady Chatterley with him in very much :) ) but this is his best performance so far and he should get a BAFTA . He portrayed a priest so well, I'd confess all to him! :) I cried at the end...
  • Sorry for repeating myself! Not sure what is happening with TB today.
  • Glad it wasn't just me
  • edited November 2017
    Location, Location, Location.

    I am a huge fan of this programme but was stunned this week to see a couple have 3/4 of a million pounds to spend on

    a flat.

    In London of all places.

    Different folks and all that, I suppose.
  • Barncroft. (Don't tell me the ending if you know it though think I have worked out what'll happen)

    The Chase - anyone else like this prog?
  • The Chase is one of the less annoying quiz programmes, and some of the contestants appear to have more than ten brain cells. So on balance, in answer to your question. yes.
  • Bancroft. Yep!
  • Bancroft. Looking forward to the conclusion tonight.
  • Hmmm.

    Am I thick but what happened to Stevens?

    Ah. Just worked it out.

    Another series is prolly in t'making
  • Hope there is another series. Otherwise very disappointing ending.
  • Ditto. They do that a lot nowadays and it drives me mad.
  • Loved the Old People's Home for Four-year-olds Christmas Special last night. The orignal series was fascinating too.
  • League of Gentlemen is back like it had never been away. Dark humour, excellent characters - love it!
  • OH was giggling over that last night. Sadly I was sewing so couldn't see it.
  • You could always have put the sewing down or, in keeping with the LoG genre, have kept on sewing while watching only to find at the end of the programme you've stitched your hand to the fabric. Neatly, though.
  • I have done that thing, Mike. My finger got sewn into something. And sewn stuff to the sofa, too. And my clothes.
  • Miniaturist was worth watching.
  • For those of you with access to streaming channels I would recommend 'Babylon Berlin', set in Germany late 20s/early 30s and based on the novels by Volker Kutscher. Wonderfully decadent scenes contrasting with the harsh realities of everyday existence, all stitched together with the menacing rise of national socialism. Sub-titled (but that adds to its charm). Beautiful to watch (aside from story) the set design / art department / wardrobe is top notch - it is the most expensive German TV drama made.
  • I hate that term National Socialism - Nazism is far from socialism and that label was used by them to garner support. Not sure I'd enjoy it! But many things by description sound far from enjoyable until you watch...
  • Yes, Liz, you are right, National Socialism has nothing to do with Socialism but for the period the drama is set in full blown Nazism was not yet in place. Babylon Berlin is not about the rise of the Nazis but is a police drama set in those times of uncertainty, corruption and lies; a bit like today's world.

  • Back to back Only Fools and Horses and breakfast in bed. Bliss
  • Tv has been off since earlier

    I have several months pay to claim for and this needs no background noise
  • a bit like today's world.

    Today's world - it's so worrying, isn't it? the link is not there...



  • edited January 2018
    Watched McMafia only cuz James Norton is in it. Phwwwoooooarh!
  • Just watched the thing about the Two Ronnies on Channel 5. It was lovely. Utterly enjoyable. They were such dear men.
  • Just watched An American Werewolf in London.
  • Was it good and is it on watch again?
  • It's always excellent. I taped it from the night before - Film 4.
  • Oh, is it a series, rather than a film?
  • No, a film. I watched it when it was released and every now and then it's shown on TV.
  • Loved Inside No 9 tonight

    Brilliantly funny. Effortlessly clever.
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