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Watched it following your recommendation. Well acted and a powerful examination of a nervous breakdown and the dangers of going 'cold turkey' following over-reliance on benzodiazepines and...

By gum, not 'arf. That was seriously unsettling and as you say, a masterful piece of acting: the quintessence of Psychopathy. The performance of DCI Stewart barely coping with the grizzly revelations...

Enjoyed the first two series of Unforgotten and now half way through Series 3, so no more spoilers please :)

Thank you G-G

By coincidence a couple of days ago I decided to give Netflix a go and was wondering what to watch on it, so with your prompting and having not watched it before have begun my delve...

The Serpent was very good. Liked the way it was shot in 'soft focus' - for want of a more technical phrase - which seemed more apt for the 70s than UHD would

As ever with 50s 60s 70s period pieces...

I feared it might have been 'dramatised' a bit; but no, it was pleasingly understated and I thought the sympathetic portrayal of the down-on-their-luck couple who found the poison in a perfume bottle...

Presumably you found out; but if not, they're descended from the African Wild Ass, which itself is an endangered species

I do wish folk wouldn't denigrate the noble Ass by using ass when they mean...

Yes, it was excellent and innovative. It was ripe for recommissioning given the hundreds of other dickensian characters it could have dredged up for 'reimagining' but the beeb got cold feet and...

Has anyone subscribed to Britbox?

Would if I could but at present it isn't available on Virginmedia cable, my sole source for goggling

Rather fancy watching 'The Forsyte Saga' and the beeb's...

Thanks for the reminder about 'Quiz', forgot about it

I've been recording episodes of 'Armchair Theatre' being shown on the Talking Pictures channel. Oldsters might recall the series from the '60s...

The beleaguered beeb have excelled themselves recently. I thought the remake of Scrooge was excellent, though spoilt by the seemingly de riguer inclusion of a sprinkling of the f-word: it ain't tough...

'Franco Building'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007z31/franco-building-with-jonathan-meades

Jonathan Meades is a gem

This blog is worth a gander as it's written by a brexiteer, but one who's quite aware that Brexit could be calamitous, in the short term at least

http://peterjnorth.blogspot.co.uk/

Think I'm of a simialr vintage to you Moe, so is it about Nick Drake?

https://youtu.be/2pUryKNsqDo

Sincere condolences to you and your family

Was that a new documentary made to celebrate his centenary?

Saw it was on but thought it was just a repeat of one broadcast a couple of years or so ago, which was indeed very good

'And Then...

Just a truce until New Year, I hope; it'll be a cold, cold winter without regular blasts of, sometimes enhancing, hot air

I watched 'We're Doomed' last night. A lovely, affectionate tribute and...

I'm looking forward to 'Dickensian', 'And Then There Were None', 'The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures' and 'The Abominable Bride'

The Christmas Lectures are entitled 'How To Survive In...

It was a good enough, entertaining yarn and very well staged but it was too 'Boys Own', violent and predictable for me. Did he really have to ride off in to the sunset at the end, I ask you :lol:
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Sorry, I thought The Bridge was American grit not Scandinavian groet, hence my reference to y*ankers.

I enjoy some gritty drama providing it's period such as Peaky Blinders and Ripper Street but...

One never tires of watching crocodiles rip wildebeest to pieces, does one:)

I haven't seen any of this Scandinavian foerkvitterja so many have raved about in recent years; and am not keen on stuff...

David Attenborough has been an ever-present comforting companion during my 50+ years of goggling: savour this genuine national and international treasure in a bri-nylon blue shirt while we still can,...

Oh dear, so it was, really shouldn't trust to memory and there weren't actually that many Georges about then, compared to a legion of Edwards and Henrys; and as for the women they all seemed to be...

Ah yes, had forgotten George's attainder, but it's fun to postulate 'what might have been': Clare Balding would I think be Princess Clare, being Lord Huntingdon's niece:)

Henry VIII's execution of...

Thanks GG, that's new to me so will check it out