Recommend TV Shows Not From The States. The Sequel

[Swift]

Someone was uploading them to YT years ago but they kept getting taken down, so I only saw the first few episodes. I remember falling about the place at Mortimer's terrible Taxi Driver impression.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

Bob Mortimer is, without question, my all time favourite TV personality bar none. 

[odessasteps]

53 minutes ago, Fuzzy Dunlop said:

Bob Mortimer is, without question, my all time favourite TV personality bar none. 

He and Vic are both fun on Cats does Countdown.

[BrynnJade92]

Kim’s Convenience (from Canada) is fantastic. The whole series is up on Netflix in the US. It’s funny, heartwarming and just kinda generally goofy at times. Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is so, so good in his role as Appa.
 

My favorite is Corner Gas (also from Canada) for sure though. I love the humor and I live in a town kind of like where it’s set. I’m currently going through the animated version and nearly to the episode with Trish Stratus, Lance Storm and Bret Hart in it. Once I finish the animated version, I’ll go back and watch the original version.

[driver]

Murder Most 'Orrid on Freevee(formerly IMDBTV). Basically it's Dawn French in an anthology series. Can't go wrong, innit, mate, innit.

 

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[odessasteps]

https://blackadder.lnk.to/historical?fbclid=IwAR0RKd7GaVTZ3EAowBZZPPnYB5hb9ZO2tlKBcAeCECOBD7eHMgqhpf1qlxo
 

Blackadder vinyl box set, signed by Tony Robinson

only $235 on Amazon. 

[odessasteps]

I randomly found out one of the girls in my new office watches 8 out of Cats does Countdown, so I've been recommending all the other British panel shows to her.

[odessasteps]

Sir Tony Robinson is set to reprise his role from Blackadder for the first time in more than 20 years for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day appeal. The actor, 76, starred as Edmund Blackadder’s servant and sidekick Baldrick in the classic BBC sitcom from 1983 to 1989 and in a number of subsequent specials.

[John E. Dynamite]

Hearing a lot of hype about the Chinese version of The Three-Body Proble?. I guess Netflix is doing their own version later. Chinese Sci-Fi Prestige Streaming TV is so outside of my area of knowledge, somebody please tell me how to feel.

[GuerrillaMonsoon]

Mayflies from BBC. Came out around December last year.

What a fucking tearjerker. And a ripping early 80s Manchester soundtrack to boot.

Tony Curran is wasted in Your Honor.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

This is Going to Hurt is one of the best TV shows of the last 5 or 10 years and is both a testament to the good people of the NHS and a horrible indictment of a broken system that has been allowed to prevail in a Tory led government and is a TV show which is both simultaneously hilarious and heart breaking.

I watched it recently for the first time and it is fucking GREAT. 

[odessasteps]

Has anyone watched Gallows Pole yet?

[driver]

No, had never heard of it before now, Googled it and now I want to see it.

[odessasteps]

Someone in my social media (idont remember if it blue sky or blue bird) mentioned it today and I wanted to see if it was historical drama or something or Led Z Zeppelin.

[odessasteps]

Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams. Not as good as you’d think. But an interesting precursor to Hitchhikers

[odessasteps]

If I was in the UK,the idea of going to a comic con to see Tony Slattery might be my nerd out moment of the year.
 

For those interested, it’s the Bridlington Spa Comic Con, which I think I saw was in West Yorkshire. He’s also doing a stand up tour. 

[odessasteps]

Went on a Father Ted binge this week. 

[Travis Sheldon]

22 hours ago, odessasteps said:

Went on a Father Ted binge this week. 

Oh, go on!

[odessasteps]

9 minutes ago, Travis Sheldon said:

Oh, go on!

 

[odessasteps]

https://youtu.be/iEq9cL8AemA?si=PoY5nd-2NGhn7qrp

Doc on Randall and Hopkitk Deceased

[AxB]

The fact that the board is fixed now, means I can navigate to page two of folders, means I can now bump this topic to talk about the BBC adaptation of How It Feels For A Girl. Which I'm fairly confident won't be airing on any American network any time soon, due to it's subject matter.

Spoiler

A fifteen year old becomes a sex worker, makes friends with a bunch of other sex workers and drug addicts, goes on a journey of self discovery, realises she's trans, goes to jail, gets out and comes out.

It's really good. The book it's based on is written in a very distinctive Nottinghamshire accent, and not only is it performed that way, but even the subtitles follow it: Samantha is subtitled as Smanfa. And it does do one thing in the casting that the book doesn't really establish - by casting actors who were only in their mid 30s (when it was filmed) as the parents of our teenage protagonist, it does really establish that they themselves weren't really mature enough to be raising a child when they did. The book kind of paints them more as adults who chose to be selfish, rather than them being basically kids themselves who had no idea what they were doing.

There's a lot more to talk about. I'd say it was highly recommended to watch it, but most of you might have to sail the seas to get a chance to.