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Guess there was at least 1 episode of 8/10 Cats left with both Jon and Sean ( RIP).

 

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I've been watching Toast of Tinseltown lately as someone has uploaded the series to YouTube. It's... not very good really. Toast of London was often quite middling with the odd hilarious wacky bit. This hasn't come anywhere near unfortunately.

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Has anyone watched Lovejoy? I'm working my way through Columbo and want to follow it with something that scratches the same itch and I love Ian McShane. Is it worth tracking down?

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13 hours ago, elizium said:

Has anyone watched Lovejoy? I'm working my way through Columbo and want to follow it with something that scratches the same itch and I love Ian McShane. Is it worth tracking down?

Yes it is.

I got into this series back in the 90s and it is brilliant to watch McShane chew the scenery .

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Never watched it back in the day, just catching glimpses of here and there. Always struck me as a cosy Sunday evening type show which isn't necessarily a bad thing (That wouldn't have appealed to me as a teenager, but does now). I read one of the books a couple years ago and Lovejoy struck me as a more rogueish, misogynistic type character than I would've expected.

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Any Midnight Diner fans here? My mom recommended it to me and I'm a bit curious about it. The premise sounds neat.

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Turns out Acorn TV has a 30 day free trial with Prime, so I guess I'm going to see how many I can watch in a month. Or watch I, Claudius instead

Watched the first couple episodes and it is pretty fun so far. No real meat to the mysteries so far, but as advertised McShane is great. I didn't expect him to be such a weasel and start each episode off with a 4th wall break.

Sunday evening type show is a perfect description. I'm not looking for something I have to get super invested in

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3 hours ago, Swift said:

Never watched it back in the day, just catching glimpses of here and there. Always struck me as a cosy Sunday evening type show which isn't necessarily a bad thing (That wouldn't have appealed to me as a teenager, but does now). I read one of the books a couple years ago and Lovejoy struck me as a more rogueish, misogynistic type character than I would've expected.

Kind of funny you use that term, because for years I have used the term "Sunday afternoon movie" to describe the kind of light, minimal investment movies that would always air on network TV on Sunday afternoons growing up. Usually light comedies, mid-range action movies, that kind of thing. Time fillers used by stations when there's no live sports on. Like you're bored at home, its too cold to go outside, and you're flipping through channels and one is randomly showing Black Moon Rising. You'd never think to watch it in a million years otherwise, but a perfect movie to kill a boring afternoon.

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So far Derry Girls Season 3 is just slaying me with laughter. I'm going to be so sad when its done

James

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The last ever episode of my wee hometown's pride and joy Derry Girls (unless they do a film? Lisa McGee if you're reading? Okay, you're not going to be reading a wrestling forum but a film, yeah? Please?) just finished and, good jaysus, talk about sticking the landing; an absolute note perfect ending in which, to use a Derry phrase, the tears and snotters will be tripping off ye. 

Massive credit to everyone involved including the cameos (holy fuck, the cameos) but especially to Lisa McGee, you absolute wee cert ye. 

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7 hours ago, Fuzzy Dunlop said:

The last ever episode of my wee hometown's pride and joy Derry Girls (unless they do a film? Lisa McGee if you're reading? Okay, you're not going to be reading a wrestling forum but a film, yeah? Please?) just finished and, good jaysus, talk about sticking the landing; an absolute note perfect ending in which, to use a Derry phrase, the tears and snotters will be tripping off ye. 

Massive credit to everyone involved including the cameos (holy fuck, the cameos) but especially to Lisa McGee, you absolute wee cert ye. 

I absolutely cannot wait for this to hit Netflix. Derry Girls is one of the best shows of its era. I have a friend who lives in Belfast and he has talked about how much the show has really meant to NI as a whole — about how people managed to build lives around a very complicated and volatile situation. But mostly it is just hilarious.

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Finished Derry Girls S3E6 and that was a gut punch. It has me on edge for the finale. I can't say anything else besides that because otherwise... ya know... spoilers and all. Still, just oof

James

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The Derry Girls finale was a rare gem in this day and age. A perfect ending to a perfect show. I'm not even remotely Irish (Anglo-Turkish on my mom's side, Russian Jewish on my Dad's) and it still struck a chord on so many levels.

 

I am going to miss all these characters (especially Sister Michael)

Bravo!

James

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Favourite characters in this?

Michelle, Orla, Aunt Sarah, Sister Michael and then everyone else in joint 5th place. There are no bad characters in Derry Girls, it's bordering on perfect at times but they are my top 4.

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I'm going to miss Clare's pronunciation of Michelle's name (MEE-shell). There are times Clare is just super standout but it requires her to be in panic mode (her laying the blame on Michelle in S1E1 and SisterMichael's respnose still slays me).

James

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I started watching the BBC TV adaptation of And Then There Were None. 

More an exercise in seeing what they change, but it has your usual group of A/B level cast, including  Charles Dance, Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson. 

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You know, you pay your TV licence and a lot of times the BBC trots out a load of old shit but sometimes they'll produce little gems of a show. I re-watched (again) Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing and it is one such little gem.

Mortimer is a man child and the most likeable person you will ever see on TV, Whitehouse is his grumpier friend, they go fishing, Mortimer falls over a lot, Whitehouse repeatedly shouts don't wind, Mortimer says he's not winding when he clearly is, they talk about mental health and men's health, they do impressions, they tell jokes, Mortimer falls over again, Whitehouse does Ted the dog's voice, Mortimer talks about his dad dying when he was young, Whitehouse scatters his own dad's ashes at his dad's favourite fishing spot, Fergal Sharkey shows up and they sing Teenage Kicks, they do some more fishing, Mortimer shows unparalleled joy at catching a fish and then falls over again, this is one long run-on sentence...and away.

It is funny, life affirming, looks great, has a great soundtrack and is the most perfect fucking TV you will ever watch even if you don't give a shit about fishing.

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