What TV are you watching?

[Richard A Thackeray]

Goblin Works Garage, whilst eating tea

Last nights episode with the GMC Apache pick-up (a 1958 model)

 

[gbb]

What a load of old twaddle

My wife is watching 'Call The Midwife ' ? Is it ?

Jeez, the nuns are talking like something out of the middle ages, ridiculous....doing my head in. Surely they didn' really speak like that ?

 

[Chris S]

'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet', I remembered it from the first time around.
What I didn't know then was that Gary Holton, who played Wayne, would be dead within two years.

 

[NorthernDave]

'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet', I remembered it from the first time around.
What I didn't know then was that Gary Holton, who played Wayne, would be dead within two years.

The original two series of Auf Wiedersehen Pet remain some of the finest television ever produced. I can watch them time and time again.

 

[Adam4868]

Having been deeply disappointed by McMafia, which staggered to a close last night, I am now holding out the high hopes again for tonight's first episode of Collateral, by David Hare.

It was probally worth 2 episodes at most,I thought it ended up being quite cheesy.It happens a lot where youve watched 6/7 hours of something which was mediocre at best.Except "the missing" probally my favourite of the past few years.Hopefully Collaterall will be good,I love Carey Mulligan !

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Altered Carbon (2018) ...... Joel Kinnaman, James Purefoy, Martha Higareda, Chris Conner, ......the new Netflix 10 part science-fiction series, this was an exception series, fantastic piece of television, well made, excellent story, visually stunning well worth the watch 9.5/10

I'd agree with this - wonderful sci-fi based on thought-provoking ideas. Best tv I've seen for a while.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I enjoyed the first episode of Maltese ,potentially very good.

I watched 2.5 episodes of Mc mafia just no intrest in that.

Going to watch Requiem on catch up as that seems to have got some good reviews.
And Collateral is on series link.

And Julius Ceaser on record too, that should be very intresting with Mary Beard

 

[srw]

Julius Caesar revealed - the utterly fantastic Mary Beard presenting a knowledgeable, informative and witty documentary on a Roman Dictator Perpetuus with uncanny parallels in the present day. Last night, 9pm, BBC1.

Yes, BBC1. I never thought I'd see Latin translated from a mobile phone on prime time.

 

[MontyVeda]

Gotham, series four.... enjoyable nonsense and far better than those bog awful films.

Timeless, series one... more nonsense. Reminds me of Sliders. It's fun.

 

[Leaway2]

House of cards. (Netflix) the original UK series. Very good. I have just started the next series where Michael Kitchen plays a prince who becomes King after the Queen dies and sounds and acts very much like Prince Charles.

 

[Roadhump]

Quite looking forward to Earth's Natural Wonders, BBC1, 9.00 pm on Wednesday night.

 

[captain nemo1701]

I’m enjoying repeats of Seaquest DSV on the horror channel. What’s fun is that in 1993 when the show was made, they projected it into the (then) future of 2018!.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I've recently got into Beyond 100 Days on BBC 4 at 7pm. Really excellent commentary on the US and beyond. Worth a look.

 

[captain nemo1701]

[QUOTE 5151834, member: 259"]Stargate SG1. I know it's rubbish but I just like it - even the rubbish props and the fact that almost all stargates on distant alien planets are in the same disused quarry and scrubby bit of birch forest.[/QUOTE]

It's a great fun show that doesn't take itself too seriously. I enjoy the characters and running gags like whenever Carter embarks on a long-winded very technical scientific explanation, O'Neil always cuts her short; O'Neil's standard response of 'Aaw..crap' whenever things go wrong and Tealc's 'Indeed' lines.

There is an episode where, yet again, they emerge into a lush Canadian forest and O'Neil says 'Trees...how green is the universe?'. The episode where Tealc & O'Neil are the only ones aware they are in a time-loop like Groundhog Day is hilarious. And one episodes sees Daniel in central america which is obviously a Canadian forest with the wrong plant species for the tropics, although the set dresser added a few banana plants etc in hidden pots to make it look 'exotic' .

Also worth waiting for are the 100th & 200th anniversary shows (yep, they went over 200!) with their own parody 'Wormhole Xtreme' and reverential gags about the original Stargate movie & Star Trek.

I enjoyed SG1 and it's worth sticking with the spin-off Stargate:Atlantis. Forget Stargate: Universe though, it was boring & got cancelled.

Remember, Dr who & Blakes 7 faced their deadly enemies in a gravel pit. I understand that the quarry used for Magrathea in the HHGTTG is actually now the Eden Project.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I’m enjoying repeats of Seaquest DSV on the horror channel. What’s fun is that in 1993 when the show was made, they projected it into the (then) future of 2018!.

Interesting looking when sci fi was set:

Bicentennial Man - 2005
Dan Dare - 1990s
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - 1992
Lost In Space - 1997
UFO - 1980
Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight - April 5 2063
Star Trek - 2233