What are the TV shows you watch when you're feeling down and you don't feel like trying something new? What are your go to favourites?
I often like to stick on The Simpsons, Dragon Ball, Spongebob Squarepants, South Park and Rick and Morty
What are the TV shows you watch when you're feeling down and you don't feel like trying something new? What are your go to favourites?
I often like to stick on The Simpsons, Dragon Ball, Spongebob Squarepants, South Park and Rick and Morty
Star Trek = Very very very very good!
I prefer finding new series on Netflix , I like watching European or International Films and never ever watch the dubbed version - I like subtitled series & films - but must be original language - not of that lip sync issue that is so bad.
Recently on Netflix - Detective Hole , The Chestnut Man were both fantastic Nordic series
I only wrote to them last year, so I doubt they'll listen, I've even suggested using BBC4 for popular programs when the sport is on, they weren't interested in that either.
Historians ofen refer to history sections in book shops and libraries as "Hitler Corner", as theres so much on WW2, I guess seeing as theres film footage it makes for easy programs that don't require a lot of thought, money, or having to have experts talk you through stuff, they can just string together bits of film. I get so fed up with documentaries where you only get any real information in the first section, after the first advert break they spend half the second and subsequent sections telling you what they've already told you, then there's the intro's where they tell you what they're going to tell you.
I think the BBC in particular are running scared of a loud and large minority, who want to see it as a nationalist propganda machine and part of that nationalist propaganda is sport, so that we can all sit in front of the telly joining in with jingoism and fake patriotism when "we" win and the unfairness of when we don't.
At leas next week we start to get proper programes back again, Only Connect, University Challenge, a new series on evolution with Chris Packham and my favourite, The Great British Sewing Bee.
I've complained twice to the BBC about their sports coverage and how it interupts other programs but they say people like sport and they're not going to change i
When I asked PBS America why they showed few documentaries that were not about war - they said the majority of listeners /sponsors wanted this! So why doesn't BBC listen to everyone who pays the license fee? They've started thanking license payers, so perhaps there view is slowly changing. There are different BBC's each with slightly different content - it would be easy to dedicate one to sport - 'BBC Sport'. Try writing again, TheCatWoman and I'll write and add my voice too.
And Wimbledon too now, its wall to wall sport on every channel, if we're lucky we might get the news at 6pm or half and hour of another program we might want to watch. Gardeners world was advertised last friday, but instead we got a recording of tennis, great just what I wanted, 2 sweaty women grunting whilst hitting balls, instead of some nice calming gardening. BBC4's full of repeats as are all the other channels on freeview. I don't want channel 5 nightly offerings of police chases or royal scandal stories either.
I really don't think its either fair or proportionate to have so much sport, even the news when its on seems to be half sport, is there nothing else happening in the world? I've complained twice to the BBC about their sports coverage and how it interupts other programs but they say people like sport and they're not going to change it. Then they wonder why people stop watching in favour of streaming services
random youtube videos that I'm subscribed to
A new wildlife serieBBC 4, 7pm Sundays, based around The Lost Gardens of Heligan.
I'm really intrigued by this now too!
I don’t think it’s available to stream in the UK or Ireland at the moment but I’ll keep a look out. It sounds like the sort of thing that would be a good antidote to the football bombardment of our screens.
I thought Jeeves and Wooster was really well done and absolutley worth watching, its just so silly and very close to the books, I think all of the casting was good and Stephen Fry managed to convey so much of Jeeve's opinions with a twitch of the nose or eyebrow. Another thing we get to hear is Hugh Laurie's brilliance at playing the piano in some episodes.
I enjoyed watching the original series of All Creatures Great and Small on I player.
As a teenager I bought the first four books which I read several times. Then when the last two came out I borrowed them from the library. The first series did seem similar to the books so I didn't want to see the more recent one.
The latest All Creature’s series did have a lot that wasn’t in the books but I didn’t mind that because the characters were strong. I suppose they run out of animal events so have to improvise. The only character casting I couldn’t accept was Mrs Pumphrey. The previous Mrs Pumphrey was much sillier and more like she came across in the books.
I haven’t seen Jeeves & Wooster. Is it worth watching? It was first shown on TV when I was busy with my (now ex) husband and time got in the way. I remember seeing some of the old Wodehouse episodes but can’t remember much about what happened, although Wooster was memorable.
Some of the old TV series are so comforting to watch, even for the umpteenth time, because they don’t require concentration and it doesn’t matter if I’m preoccupied and miss sections. They are just a familiar presence.
Margaret Rutherford was to comical to be Miss Marple and I didn't like the other series Marple either as I thought they messed around with the stories to much. Like I didn't like the recent remake of All Creatures Great and Small, a lot of that wasn't in the books and I thought that was very well cast. Although nothing like the characters in the books, I thought Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were brilliant in Jeeves and Wooster, although Hugh Laurie was about the right age to be Bertie Wooster and he managed the total boggle-eyed expressions so well.
Definitely! She portrayed Miss Marple as I imagine she should be.
Margaret Rutherford was good but not at all like Miss Marple in the books.
I think sometimes the followability is more of what may make something relaxing as opposed to the actual content lol
I think Joan Hickson was the best Miss Marple, I know Agatha Chrisite told her she'd be a good Miss Marple when she was old enough. Likewise I think Jeremy Brett was the best Sherlock Holmes, I'm not counting the Benedict Cumberbatch one as it was a whole new retelling.
I know how that feels, honestly
