"There's nothing on 'the box' "

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  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2019 #32

    Isn't it some crisp salesman although he does seem to be morphing into a Jimmy Hill lookalike.

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2019 #33

    Sorry I missed this post WTG.

    MOTD is Match of the Day! Along with more cultured stuff we enjoy lots of sport as well. Haven’t been to a live match for a while, but walking up the steps at Old Trafford, hearing the dull roar, until you reach the top and then..........😲 like Maximus Decimus Meridia v The Tiger! Brutal, but fun!

    Clarissa can be found for free on both YouTube and Daily Motion. Not the best quality, but it’s all about the actors.😃

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  • EasyT
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    edited March 2019 #35

    I know that OH has taken to watching a crime drama about a New Zealand copper. No idea beyond that.

    A Google tells me it is probably the Brokenwood Mysteries

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  • redface
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    edited March 2019 #37

    Thank you Lornalou1, hadn't spotted the USB.

    When I am job free (from MOH) I will attempt the transfer.

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2019 #38

    WTG, her are some other offbeat, very watchable films/TV dramas:

    Donovan Quick, retelling of Don Quixote story, set in Glasgow, with Colin Firth, brilliant.

    The Hour of the Pig aka The Advocate. Set in medieval France, funny, sad, risqué, again with Colin Firth.

    The Missing Postman, gentle offbeat TV semi comedy with James Bolam and Alison Steadman. 

    Wimbledon Poisoner, TV drama with Robert Lindsay and Alison Steadman, Larry Lamb.

    GBH, superb drama about corrupt politicians, set in Liverpool, again with Robert Lindsay and the brilliant Michael Palin. Very funny in places.

    Our Friends In the North, the series that launched so many great acting careers.

    Master of the Moor. Murder mystery set on Dartmoor. It’s a Ruth Rendell story, very dark, with Colin Firth and John Michie. Filming was done in and around Bovey Tracey.

    Melissa, with Jennifer Ehle and I think Adrian Dunbar, murderous thriller.

    I also enjoyed the BBC version of Ivanhoe, with Ciaran Hinds. 

    Jane Eyre......Timothy Dalton version.

    All much more watchable than the tripe that is on TV nowadays.😁

    Edit: just remembered another trio of brilliant Ralph Fiennes films, Sunshine, tale of Hungarian Jewish family, Quiz Show, set in 1950s America, and Strange Days, set on Millenium Eve. 

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  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2019 #40

    Ah.....I ain’t keen on Poliakoff! 

    Last time I saw Sean Bean live, he was at Bramall Lane (Sheffield United’s ground) giving Neil Warnock some Anglo Saxon based instructions.......🤣 They had just been relegated.

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  • DavidKlyne
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    edited March 2019 #42

    I do have a long lasting admiration of the work of Poliakoff and watch the DVDs of his plays / films repeatedly.

    Can't say that I watch DVD's but I have enjoyed his television drama's. Not to everyone's taste but I always find them interesting because you have to work at the meaning and nothing seems quite as you think.

    David

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited March 2019 #43

    Poliakoff, a nutty Professor, really?, nah, not for me☹️

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited March 2019 #44

    I think you have got the wrong one! That looks like Martyn Poliakoff the playwright is Stephen Poliakoff.

  • ABM
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    edited March 2019 #45

      "  And  God said  --  you  should  have  been  specific " 

    {  Yet  another  line  nicked  from  Max  Boyce  winksmile   }

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited March 2019 #46

    Ahaa, I see. There’s a definite likeness mind👍🏻

  • dave the rave
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    edited March 2019 #47

    The chase is my favourite.educational and light hearted.Pointless is,to me,absolutely pointless.!

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  • dave the rave
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    edited March 2019 #50

    each to his/her own preferences.I find the chase worth watching and I find pointless to be irritating to say the least.I will not watch Peston as his way of talking to camera annoys me but I will watch re.runs of Fools and horses etc as I find the scripts and acting to be brilliant etc.etc.There is,in fact,very little to justify the cost of a tv licence!Which bit do you not understand?

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  • DavidKlyne
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    edited March 2019 #52

    Pointless is very educational, I knew very little about the Periodic table before I started to watch the programme!!! I think it a fascinating insight into the  state of general knowledge. Younger people do very well with music but generally don't do so well with politics. Everyone (except me) seems to do well with sport and films! 

    David

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited March 2019 #53

    😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • dave the rave
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    edited March 2019 #54

    sorry,I did not realise that you were looking for drama!I assumed that the title "nothing on the box" was a general observation!If there is nothing worth watching then the tv licence is a rip-off (in my opinion)

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  • Cornersteady
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    edited March 2019 #56

    jut watched Derry girls on catch up. Excellent.smile

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited March 2019 #57

    Just watched a very knowledgeable man win £500k on Millionaire. He’s a school teacher👍🏻

  • Cornersteady
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    edited March 2019 #58

    yes thanks for that description,  just off to the dealers nowsmilewink

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited March 2019 #59

    MrC. . .Just say NO😱😱

  • peedee
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    edited March 2019 #60

    What am I missing?

    Amazon Prime

    peedee

  • EasyT
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    edited March 2019 #61

    Ok. But in my OP I did write about drama series.

    You also wrote about a quiz programme and I for one had no idea that you were looking for personal recommendations whether for drama or not.

    I thought it to be a general moan about nowt on TV.

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