What are you watching?

[Gray]

Have stuck with watching the extended Have I got News For You since someone here recommended it.

Sad but probably true; I don't think I've missed a single episode of that programme since it first started.
There's always a smile to be had and occasionally a laugh out loud.

Although Hislop tries to be balanced with his venom, the guest panellists are often far too left wing for my liking -and more than ever now they play off audiences with the same biased views.

Certainly been a very good earner for Merton, Hislop and Hatrick Productions.

 

[daveh75]

Started rewatching Inside No.9 from the beginning, whilst waiting for all episodes of series 9 (the final series) to appear, since the BBC have decided to release them weekly.

Given it's an anthology, it's the ideal series to release in one go on iPlayer, rather than drip feeding one a week like it's the '90s and 'council' TV is our only option for viewing 🤬

 

[12th Monkey]

Started rewatching Inside No.9 from the beginning, whilst waiting for all episodes of series 9 (the final series) to appear, since the BBC have decided to release them weekly.

Marvellous in the main, and frequently completely and utterly brilliant.

 

[12th Monkey]

Clarkson's Farm series 3 - obviously we're only seeing one side, but the council do seem to have it in for him.

Watched the one about mushroom farming last night. The people he bought the packs from were spouting some cobblers though - that humans have more in common genetically with mushrooms than anything else, and that mushrooms are widely believed to have originated in space. Both statements are bunk of the most exalted order.

 

[DCarmi]

that humans have more in common genetically with mushrooms than anything else

The "anything else" bit is misleading. Mushroom do share 50% of the same genes with the animal kingdom and as such are neither plant nor animal but fungi.

That said, there are some humans I know who may have as much as 90% mushroom genes. 🤣

 

[12th Monkey]

The "anything else" bit is misleading.

Generous to a fault! As the higher primates share almost all our genes it's simply not true, and not true by an extremely large margin.

 

[DougK1]

Watched the one about mushroom farming last night. The people he bought the packs from were spouting some cobblers though - that humans have more in common genetically with mushrooms than anything else, and that mushrooms are widely believed to have originated in space. Both statements are bunk of the most exalted order.

It's a scripted reality TV show which I'm sure Mr. Clarkson gets a tidy sum for otherwise he wouldn't be doing it. Do you really expect to learn anything factual by watching it? It's entertainment value only.

 

[12th Monkey]

It's a scripted reality TV show which I'm sure Mr. Clarkson gets a tidy sum for otherwise he wouldn't be doing it. Do you really expect to learn anything factual by watching it? It's entertainment value only.

Not expecting to learn anything, but the propagation of utter rubbish is something that should be called out - that's all.

 

[DougK1]

Not expecting to learn anything, but the propagation of utter rubbish is something that should be called out - that's all.

It's what reality TV shows do I'm afraid, peddle rubbish, hence why I try to avoid them like the plague.

 

[12th Monkey]

I don't watch anything else like it, and as you say it's just entertainment. The dynamics between those involved are what makes it work.

 

[plastic penguin]

Watched for the first time in years The Dam Busters, shown on Channel 5.

Not my favourite film due to reasons I've given in the past. But as today's weather has been grotty, it was a pleasant enough watch.

 

[12th Monkey]

Just started Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. First one had its fair helping of original series cheese, but was also needed to introduce all the characters etc. We'll see.

 

[Leon74]

Now watching Blue Bloods season 8 but it's a bit tame once you have seen "24":

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lxDREJ4vTo


I'm waiting for the next season of Chicago PD that isn't yet on DVD/Blu Ray (in Europe)

 

[plastic penguin]

Been watching the 1960s series The Prisoner.

Could someone explain what the series is about? Filmed in the lovely Welsh village of Portmeirion. They don't have names just numbers and are trapped. If they try to escape this mad balloon chases after them. Was McGoohan on something illegal? It was the 60s after all.

It scared the life out of me as a youngster and 50-odd years on still baffles me.

 

[12th Monkey]

Just started Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. First one had its fair helping of original series cheese, but was also needed to introduce all the characters etc. We'll see.

Watched two and a half episodes - going on eBay. It's like the original series with better effects, but no nostalgia value.

 

[12th Monkey]

Started rewatching Inside No.9 from the beginning, whilst waiting for all episodes of series 9 (the final series) to appear, since the BBC have decided to release them weekly.

The standard of the first three from series 9 is very high. Not sure if you've got that far yet.

 

[12th Monkey]

Started rewatching Inside No.9 from the beginning, whilst waiting for all episodes of series 9 (the final series) to appear, since the BBC have decided to release them weekly.

If you haven't seen it, I can wholeheartedly recommend a film called Ghost Stories, co-written by their erstwhile League of Gentlemen colleague Jeremy Dyson.

 

[Friesiansam]

The standard of the first three from series 9 is very high. Not sure if you've got that far yet.

After the first few series, We felt No 9 went a little downhill but, series 8 & 9 brought a return to form, with 9 very dark, even by Pemberton and Shearsmith standards.

 

[12th Monkey]

After the first few series, We felt No 9 went a little downhill but, series 8 & 9 brought a return to form, with 9 very dark, even by Pemberton and Shearsmith standards.

Funnily enough, we thought series 8 wasn't the strongest - though the last one was very good.

 

[Friesiansam]

Funnily enough, we thought series 8 wasn't the strongest - though the last one was very good.

Sadly, the last episode, of the last series of No 9, seemed weak and self-indulgent, with a poor twist. Had hoped it would end on a high...

 

[podknocker]

I loved The League of Gentlemen way back when and Inside No9 is excellent. The final episode (6) of series 9 will be the end of a great series of dark and at sometimes very scary episodes.

 

[Friesiansam]

I loved The League of Gentlemen way back when and Inside No9 is excellent. The final episode (6) of series 9 will be the end of a great series of dark and at sometimes very scary episodes.

If you haven’t done so already and, if you can find it or it gets repeated again, watch Psychoville.

 

[idc]

The second series of Blue Lights was excellent.

 

[12th Monkey]

Just started re-watching Absolutely Fabulous. Every scene stolen by Joanna Lumley.

 

[Friesiansam]

Just started re-watching Absolutely Fabulous. Every scene stolen by Joanna Lumley.

Don’t forget the wonderful June Whitfield.