What TV are you watching?

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 18th

633 Squadron
George Chakris is one of the main cast, he was in West Side Story
John Meillon is one of the Aussie pilots, he was later Wally in Crocodile Dundee
Johnny (Coronation Street) Briggs too

Blooper; when one of the Mosquitos crashes during practice in Scotland, the Officers that saw it got into Land-Rover Series 1, how very wrong!
seen @3:04


View: https://youtu.be/D9uW8HgrsKQ?si=Q-bhThZC1hCMDRFx

 

[stephec]

Sunfay 18th

633 Squadron
George Chakris is one of the main cast, he was in West Side Story
John Meillon is one of the Aussie pilots, he was later Wally in Crocodile Dundee
Johnny (Coronation Street) Briggs too

Blooper; when one of the Mosquitos crashes during practice in Scotland, the Officers that saw it got into Land-Rover Series 1, how very wrong!
seen @3:04


View: https://youtu.be/D9uW8HgrsKQ?si=Q-bhThZC1hCMDRFx

'You can't kill a squadron,' stirring stuff!

 

[biggs682]

Another good episode of Night Manager tonight

 

[matticus]

New season of Astrid (series 5) starts next Friday on More 4.

I am geuinely unhappy about this! Really wish they'd waited till after the UK variant had been broadcast.

I think it will be terrible watching them in parallel

#1stworldproblem

 

[Dan Lotus]

I'm only up to Episode 3 of The Night Manager, but absolutely loving it - huge moment at the end of the episode to!

Hoping the leading female actor remains in it for the entire series 🤞 AND is in the next one 🤞 🤞

I think I have just about gotten used to the Reverend from the fabulous This Country being a handler of sorts:

Also watched all 3 episodes of Netflixes Seven Dials, and thought it was excellent, and very entertaining.

 

[Dan Lotus]

Ah I mean Camila Morrone, though Hayley Squires is an excellent actor as well, although we don't see very much of her - perhaps that will change.
Surprised how very little we have seen of Olivia Colman so far as well in the first 3 episodes.

Camila strikes me as a mix of Dua Lipa and Liv Tyler, with a sprinkling of Ana de Armas as well.
I am genuinely impressed with her acting so far.

 

[Dan Lotus]

I am geuinely unhappy about this! Really wish they'd waited till after the UK variant had been broadcast.

I think it will be terrible watching them in parallel

#1stworldproblem

I've not watched Patience, and have no plans to - but with watch on demand, I'd personally just watch one series completely first, and then watch the other one afterwards.
Even if they are like for like storylines (Are they - presumably so?) the UK one can only be on series 2 I think, so won't directly correlate to Astrid on series 5.

 

[Binky]

Watched first 2 episodes of Steal on Amazon Prime.
Very good.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Very late to the party as usual, I’ve started watching Peaky Blinders, just series one so far. It’s completely captivating but one thing puzzles me, does anyone in Birmingham recognise this as a ‘thing’ ? My late dad was brought up in the 20’s & 30’s and me in the 60’s & 70’s both just a few miles from Small Heath where all this was supposed to have happened and other than recognising the BSA name there’s not a single thing in it that resonates. Was this ever part of Birmingham culture or is the whole thing just an invention ?

 

[wiggydiggy]

Very late to the party as usual, I’ve started watching Peaky Blinders, just series one so far. It’s completely captivating but one thing puzzles me, does anyone in Birmingham recognise this as a ‘thing’ ? My late dad was brought up in the 20’s & 30’s and me in the 60’s & 70’s both just a few miles from Small Heath where all this was supposed to have happened and other than recognising the BSA name there’s not a single thing in it that resonates. Was this ever part of Birmingham culture or is the whole thing just an invention ?

Congrats, you've found one of the best shows ever made and just in time for the film which is being made!

I believe it has its roots in fact, but like any good story is just that - a story. Gangs were certainly a thing in the past, but wether they grew to have the influence the PBs are seen too is debateable.

One thing I do like is they mange to make canals exciting, treating them as a kind of undercover smuggling network.

 

[Norry1]

Very late to the party as usual, I’ve started watching Peaky Blinders, just series one so far. It’s completely captivating but one thing puzzles me, does anyone in Birmingham recognise this as a ‘thing’ ? My late dad was brought up in the 20’s & 30’s and me in the 60’s & 70’s both just a few miles from Small Heath where all this was supposed to have happened and other than recognising the BSA name there’s not a single thing in it that resonates. Was this ever part of Birmingham culture or is the whole thing just an invention ?

Great series. Tailed off a touch at the end.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Great series. Tailed off a touch at the end.

Helen McCrory sadly died and they needed to rewrite a lot of the final season, it was very shocking as she had kept her illness quiet.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This coming weekend, after work, it'll be the first of the new series of Guy Martin : Proper Jobs
He's with the RNLI, going out with them

A future episode sees him out with Crouch Recovery, who have a very interesting side-line in selling ex-military vehicles (see the 'Sales' section)

 

[matticus]

Another good episode of Night Manager tonight

hoh yes! It's building nicely, and you can never have too much Olivia Coleman!.

Spoiler: spoiler

Roper coming back from the dead has definitely improved the series - how is Hugh Laurie so good in this?!?

 

[T4tomo]

Yes liking Night manager 2 , and strangely liking the dropping one episode a week .

Also bingeing Red eye series2 @ 2 episodes a night in between. really good too