What TV are you watching?

[Adam4868]

Anyone watched Bookish? Any good?

No...but fancy that myself

 

[Drago]

you forgot pale.

Due to my Eastern European genetic heritage I'm actually quite dark for a Scotsman.

 

[wakemalcolm]

you forgot pale.

Sorry, don't do racism or religion. You do you though.
Drago did originally come back with some bizarre anti Semitic suggestion but he seems to have thought better of it because it was gone by this morning.

 

[matticus]

Due to my Eastern European genetic heritage I'm actually quite dark for a Scotsman.

Hmmm. Guess I'll have to take your word for this. As Billy Connoly said:
"You see I'm a Scottish person. That is my colour. I'm a kind of pale blue. It takes me a week of sunbathing to get white."

 

[Drago]

Im dark enough that as a kid in particular I'd suffer occasional racial abuse from inbreds that thought I was from one of the stans.

But apparently, because I dare hold an opinion, and one that turned out to be uncannily accurate despite being aired in jest, I'm stale.

And somehow my gender is also worthy of mention in a derogatory context. Odd.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Anyone watched Bookish? Any good?

Its OK -- like a detective version of House but without Hugh Laurie

and without the quality of writers

but its OK - just seems to think it is better than it is - hence a feeling of it being rather contrived rather than appearing like it could be true

and a "big secret" that keeps not being told - but is also a bit amateur ish

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

Been, kinda, caught up with aspects stemming from 👇🏻

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/tour-de-france-2025-contains-spoilers.299400/

That I've missed (Doh!) the first half of :-

Kamikaze: An Untold History
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcfour

Watching the '2nd half' now.

 

[Adam4868]

Dark Phone....Murder by Text Encrochat on Channel 4 last night,on again tonight
Great fly on the wall doc about murder,drugs and corruption at the highest level... fascinating watch.

 

[matticus]

Dark Phone....Murder by Text Encrochat on Channel 4 last night,on again tonight
Great fly on the wall doc about murder,drugs and corruption at the highest level... fascinating watch.

Saw that in the guide and thought: that may be the worst, most confusing programme title in a long time!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Dark Phone....Murder by Text Encrochat on Channel 4 last night,on again tonight
Great fly on the wall doc about murder,drugs and corruption at the highest level... fascinating watch.

Yes - very good and very interesting

clever the way they got into it - described - in very little detail - in the first episode

I presume all this was known to the "bad people" otherwise they wouldn;t tell us

and there are probably details that they are keeping close to their chest!

 

[T4tomo]

finished Mix Tape BBC - excellent

now need something else to get teeth into.

 

[Animo]

Unforgivable, the Jimmy McGovern drama now on Iplayer.

A brave, complex and nuanced piece of work with some stunning acting. Probably better than Adolescence but won't get the same attention.

The only bit that let it down was the courtroom section at the end that felt a bit rushed and not very realistic.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just finished watching the documentary about the EncroChat hack

Very good programme
wish they wouldn;t put irrelevant "code" on the screen to indicate it is techy

some of the code looked like python FFS
and I'm pretty sure they don't use black background and green text nowadays
or at all except in The Matrix!!!
never did when I was a proper programmer anyway!!

 

[C R]

'm pretty sure they don't use black background and green text nowadays
or at all except in The Matrix!!!

Actually, it is very popular, search for dark mode editors.

 

[potsy]

Just finished watching Mix Tape on BBC/iplayer, found it very compelling. A worthwhile watch.

Watched the first couple of episodes last night, quite enjoying it so far.