What are you watching?

[12th Monkey]

Just treated myself to the box set of the original Star Trek - not seen it for years. Shonky sets, poor acting, plot holes (and we're only two episodes in) but loving it! (That said, the Enterprise looks better than I would have expected for something so old).

I think it's like a lot of things that I watched with my mum as a kid and therefore have innate fondness for.

 

[WayneKerr]

Just treated myself to the box set of the original Star Trek - not seen it for years. Shonky sets, poor acting, plot holes (and we're only two episodes in) but loving it! (That said, the Enterprise looks better than I would have expected for something so old).

I think it's like a lot of things that I watched with my mum as a kid and therefore have innate fondness for.

Love Trek. Up until a few months ago I could get my daily dose on channels 36 and 41 from 5pm. Star Trek, Next Generation, Voyager and Enterprise over a 3 hour period.

 

[12th Monkey]

Love Trek. Up until a few months ago I could get my daily dose on channels 36 and 41 from 5pm. Star Trek, Next Generation, Voyager and Enterprise over a 3 hour period.

Voyager is the spiritual successor, with all the flaws of the original that I list. But yes, have the box set of that too...!

 

[plastic penguin]

Currently watching on 'Talking Pictures' "British Rock" documentary about How Punk evolved into various off-shoots, with live performances and interviews with the likes of The Jam, The Police, The Clash, Ian Drury, The Specials, Boomtown Rats, Madness etc etc... some wonderful memories.

 

[plastic penguin]

Get Carter on ITV4, probably one of Caine's best films, along with the Italian Job and Educating Rita.

 

[12th Monkey]

Recorded rather than watched, but Mortimer and Whitehouse - Gone Fishing is back on again. Great TV.

 

[daveh75]

Recorded rather than watched, but Mortimer and Whitehouse - Gone Fishing is back on again. Great TV.

Yep. Grabbed it off iPlayer this morning.

Pretty much the only BBC output I watch these days.

 

[DCarmi]

That said, the Enterprise looks better than I would have expected for something so old

Saw the original model in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington many years ago, One of those unexpected "Wow!" moments.

 

[12th Monkey]

Yep. Grabbed it off iPlayer this morning.

Pretty much the only BBC output I watch these days.

The Beeb 2 HD recording looked decidedly SD. Uncharacteristically, for the series.

 

[daveh75]

The Beeb 2 HD recording looked decidedly SD. Uncharacteristically, for the series.

The iPlayer version I downloaded certainly didn't.

Perhaps there was a issue with the series link and it recorded the wrong version?

 

[12th Monkey]

The iPlayer version I downloaded certainly didn't.

Perhaps there was a issue with the series link and it recorded the wrong version?

I'm going to delete the 'series record' and set it up again. Can't believe how much of a difference it made to the experience!

 

[plastic penguin]

BBC Sessions: Amy Winehouse on BBC2

Still a sad loss for such a talented individual.

 

[plastic penguin]

Classic movies: The Ladykillers on Sky Arts. Still one of my fav films.

Very good documentary.

 

[ianb]

From,season 2

 

[12th Monkey]

Secrets of our Universe with Tim Peake on C5. He seems an engaging enough guy, and no doubt he's suitably clever - you don't get to be an astronaut if you're a dullard after all - but as with just about everything I've seen on C5 (admittedly not a lot!), the phrase 'dumbed down' doesn't do it justice. A pity, if not a surprise.

(Tim also had to do the voiceover for their twice-plugged competition - a long way down, in every sense, from being on the ISS...)

 

[Gray]

Secrets of our Universe with Tim Peake on C5. He seems an engaging enough guy, and no doubt he's suitably clever - you don't get to be an astronaut if you're a dullard after all - but as with just about everything I've seen on C5 (admittedly not a lot!), the phrase 'dumbed down' doesn't do it justice. A pity, if not a surprise.

(Tim also had to do the voiceover for their twice-plugged competition - a long way down, in every sense, from being on the ISS...)

You probably saw 'Voyage to Mars: The Longest Goodbye' on BBC4.
If not, it's probably worth a look for you.

 

[12th Monkey]

You probably saw 'Voyage to Mars: The Longest Goodbye' on BBC4.
If not, it's probably worth a look for you.

I'm pretty sure I've seen that before - it was a repeat, wasn't it?

 

[Friesiansam]

Secrets of our Universe with Tim Peake on C5. He seems an engaging enough guy, and no doubt he's suitably clever - you don't get to be an astronaut if you're a dullard after all - but as with just about everything I've seen on C5 (admittedly not a lot!), the phrase 'dumbed down' doesn't do it justice. A pity, if not a surprise.

(Tim also had to do the voiceover for their twice-plugged competition - a long way down, in every sense, from being on the ISS...)

Good quality science programmes, that are not dumbed down/condescending, are becoming a rare sight. BBC4 being repurposed as a BBC archive recycler, isn't going to help.

 

[Gray]

I'm pretty sure I've seen that before - it was a repeat, wasn't it?

It's the sort of thing that would get repeated (if not before now, it certainly will be in the future) - but I hadn't seen it before.

 

[12th Monkey]

It's the sort of thing that would get repeated (if not before now, it certainly will be in the future) - but I hadn't seen it before.

I appreciate you flagging it up though!

 

[BlakeHoobs]

Even if it's not a TV show, I watched Oppenheimer. It's so good better than I expected.