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Post by alece10 on Jan 6, 2022 15:13:28 GMT
They also used some actual Barking locations which I recognised but places like Snaresbrook Court and Fresh wharf patrol base (where the Stephen Port was interviewed) were not the actual buildings. Looks there is another Sheridan drama coming to ITV soon about a family going on holiday to Turkey and things go wrong with their teenage son. Also had Michael Jipson in it. Sounds good but hope its not like Midnight Express as that film put the fear of god in me and I vowed never to go to Turkey.
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Post by danb on Jan 6, 2022 20:55:32 GMT
We were really hooked by Four Lives. Had no idea it was a true story. Some absolutely heartbreaking performances from Sheridan et al and it was all so delicately communicated. I’m so pleased that they didn’t dramatise any lurid sex attacks, choosing to focus on the families struggle to get justice from an apathetic police force. I will catch up on Anne at some point soon.
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Post by peggs on Jan 6, 2022 21:03:15 GMT
These last few mentioned are on my to see list but will have to be in a robust state of mind.
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Post by zak97 on Jan 6, 2022 21:06:45 GMT
The Apprentice is on with Amy Anzel as a candidate. Amy produced the musical version of Happy Days and featured on The Sound of Musicals on Channel 4 about 8 years ago
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Post by marob on Jan 6, 2022 21:21:58 GMT
Amy Anzel should go far on The Apprentice. Didn’t she blag Henry Winkler into being a producer or consultant or something on Happy Days by ambushing him - on camera - at a book signing?
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Post by crowblack on Jan 6, 2022 22:42:26 GMT
These last few mentioned are on my to see list but will have to be in a robust state of mind. Same here, I want to watch them but not right now, at the bleakest time of the year. I'm more in the mood for comedy and escapism. Toast of Tinseltown is wonderful and The Tourist is rather fun and they're both very sunlit which is a huge plus.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 7, 2022 9:49:10 GMT
Have to say I watched Toast and just didn't get it. Just a man banging his head on a table for 5 minutes and lots of shouting. Not my idea of comedy I'm afraid. Might be an age thing.
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Post by nick on Jan 7, 2022 11:27:36 GMT
Have to say I watched Toast and just didn't get it. Just a man banging his head on a table for 5 minutes and lots of shouting. Not my idea of comedy I'm afraid. Might be an age thing. Or a gender thing? I've tried with Toast and don't get it. But when I think of the comedies I've enjoyed recently, they've all been written by or starring women - Mandy, Alma's Not Normal, Back to Life, Bump, The Chair, Feel Good, Motherland, Starstruck, This Way Up, We Are Lady Parts and I've just discovered the Irish show, Finding Joy which is a ..... joy. Actually there are a few other comedies I've enjoyed - Back, The Cleaner, Meet the Richardsons, Staged and Ghosts.
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Post by duncan on Jan 7, 2022 11:44:21 GMT
Love Toast, although this season has clearly gone the "Episodes" route of setting things stateside.
can you hear me?
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Post by danb on Jan 7, 2022 12:54:46 GMT
I loved Starstruck. Rose Matafeo is a real talent.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 7, 2022 13:14:05 GMT
Death In Paradise, one of the few TV drama series I watch nowadays, is back for season 11 tonight.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jan 7, 2022 16:12:56 GMT
I'm loving the new series of Mandy
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Post by lynette on Jan 7, 2022 16:21:03 GMT
Have to say I watched Toast and just didn't get it. Just a man banging his head on a table for 5 minutes and lots of shouting. Not my idea of comedy I'm afraid. Might be an age thing. Didn’t get it either. Unfunny imo, something about they way he spoke.
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Post by crowblack on Jan 7, 2022 17:19:26 GMT
Comedy is clearly very subjective! I discovered Toast when a friend rang me to say there was a character in it just like us, and she was right.
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Post by peggs on Jan 7, 2022 19:12:43 GMT
I rather like Toast, only newly discovered and have only watched a few and doesn't make me immediately watch the next episode like other things do but now and again.
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Post by Mark on Jan 8, 2022 23:49:59 GMT
Have watched both "Anne" and "Four Lives" over the past few days. Two of the best dramas I've seen recently, and both such tragic stories.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 9, 2022 20:40:46 GMT
Just watched The Green Planet on BBC 1. What an amazing programme. The photography was stunning and the whole programme was mesmerising. And the best bit was there were no animals killing each other which I hate watching.
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Post by peggs on Jan 16, 2022 0:07:06 GMT
Just finished watching Four Lives back to back, how utterly terrible, with the state of things today as well it's hard to have much faith in the police as an organisation.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 16, 2022 10:11:51 GMT
Saw a nice little British film on Sky Movies called Save Our Cinema with Samantha Morton. Based on a true story of a cinema being forced to close for redevelopment and a woman's attempt to keep it open so her theatre group could continue. Its a sweet film and there are also a couple of MT numbers in it including Jesus Christ Superstar and Oliver. Interesting fact at the end it says that one of her children became an opera singer and is actually the "Go Compare" man.
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Post by crowblack on Jan 18, 2022 22:50:22 GMT
I've heard Yellowjackets getting a lot of praise so I've started it, and it does look very good indeed (Now TV/Sky).
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Post by crowblack on Jan 21, 2022 8:39:03 GMT
The Nicholas Hytner-directed film of The Crucible is on Talking Pictures TV tonight in the Cellar Club horror slot (Freeview 81, though about to move to 82 I think).
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 22, 2022 20:16:15 GMT
The Nicholas Hytner-directed film of The Crucible is on Talking Pictures TV tonight in the Cellar Club horror slot (Freeview 81, though about to move to 82 I think). Thank you, I very much enjoyed it.
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Post by karloscar on Jan 23, 2022 23:22:37 GMT
I take it that Adrian Lester had it written into his contract that he gets killed after one episode of Trigger Point after reading the bloody awful script.
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Post by crowblack on Jan 24, 2022 12:10:46 GMT
Erin Doherty in new series Chloe begins BBC1 6th Feb, Ben Whishaw in This is Going to Hurt begins 8th Feb.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 25, 2022 15:31:42 GMT
Sky documentaries tonight at 9pm. Reopening Night about the reopening of The Public Theatre in New York after covid. Could be interesting.
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