What TV are you watching?

[Markymark]

Interesting looking when sci fi was set:

Bicentennial Man - 2005
Dan Dare - 1990s
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - 1992
Lost In Space - 1997
UFO - 1980
Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight - April 5 2063
Star Trek - 2233

Brookside 1963
Coronation st 1853
Last Of The Summer Wine 1534

 

[AndyRM]

Brookside 1963
Coronation st 1853
Last Of The Summer Wine 1534

Eastenders - The Dark Ages

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

It's a great fun show that doesn't take itself too seriously. I enjoy the characters and running gags like whenever Carter embarks on a long-winded very technical scientific explanation, O'Neil always cuts her short; O'Neil's standard response of 'Aaw..crap' whenever things go wrong and Tealc's 'Indeed' lines.

There is an episode where, yet again, they emerge into a lush Canadian forest and O'Neil says 'Trees...how green is the universe?'. The episode where Tealc & O'Neil are the only ones aware they are in a time-loop like Groundhog Day is hilarious. And one episodes sees Daniel in central america which is obviously a Canadian forest with the wrong plant species for the tropics, although the set dresser added a few banana plants etc in hidden pots to make it look 'exotic' .

Also worth waiting for are the 100th & 200th anniversary shows (yep, they went over 200!) with their own parody 'Wormhole Xtreme' and reverential gags about the original Stargate movie & Star Trek.

I enjoyed SG1 and it's worth sticking with the spin-off Stargate:Atlantis. Forget Stargate: Universe though, it was boring & got cancelled.

Remember, Dr who & Blakes 7 faced their deadly enemies in a gravel pit. I understand that the quarry used for Magrathea in the HHGTTG is actually now the Eden Project.

And now they have just started web broadcasting Stargate Origins. I’m looking forward to it.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Interesting looking when sci fi was set:

Bicentennial Man - 2005
Dan Dare - 1990s
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - 1992
Lost In Space - 1997
UFO - 1980
Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight - April 5 2063
Star Trek - 2233

Also:

Land of the Giants - 1983
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - 1978 to 1980
Back to the Future - 1955 to 2015

The Seaquest story the other night was subtitled 'January 2018'...so last month

 

[AndyRM]

Not TV, but Strange Days was set at the turn of the millennium (despite only coming out in 1995).

I can see the experience/emotion recording thing becoming reality before too long.

 

[MontyVeda]

Timeless (2016/17)... enjoyable hokum in a similar vein to Quantum Leap and Sliders.

 

[Roadhump]

Finished Season 3 of Better call Saul last night. As this is the prequel to Breaking Bad, you can see how some of the characters got to where they were in Breaking Bad, if you have also watched BB. I wondered if they would draw a line under Better call Saul, but felt there could have been more of an integrated transition, then I found this:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...g-news-release-date-amc-netflix-a8152991.html

I wonder how much they will pad it out, and if it will ever merge with BB, and even if Better call Saul will ever continue at a point in time that is supposed to be after the conclusion of Breaking Bad.

 

[Roadhump]

Me and MLW started watching Series 4 of Peaky Blinders last night (we recorded it before Christmas), watched the 2nd episode tonight and have to say what a load of wooden, over dramatised, exaggerated, shallow plotted, padded out with stupid slow motion scenes and tommy tough music nonsense I have seen in ages. I just can't understand why this is rated as top TV, it is a good contender for the most overrated load of bo***x I have ever watched.

 

[gavgav]

Caught up on Trauma, last night. Adrian Lester and John Simm (2 of our finest current actors) must have been desperate for some money, with that script.

What could have been a good story, descended into complete farce in the final episode.

ITV Drama really does offer some rubbish in comparison to the Beeb

 

[gavgav]

Gotham, series four.... enjoyable nonsense and far better than those bog awful films.

Timeless, series one... more nonsense. Reminds me of Sliders. It's fun.

Is Gotham back on TV? Loved the first 2 series but seemed to have been dropped by Channel 5 after that!

 

[MontyVeda]

Is Gotham back on TV? Loved the first 2 series but seemed to have been dropped by Channel 5 after that!

I don't have a TV but it's on pirate bay.

 

[NorthernDave]

Is Gotham back on TV? Loved the first 2 series but seemed to have been dropped by Channel 5 after that!

We're in the same boat - apparently Channel 5 had the rights to Gotham S3 but didn't show it for some reason - there are a few stories about it online, but nothing that actually says why.

Apparently it's on Netflix, who have also signed up for S4 (which has yet to be picked up by any UK terrestrial broadcaster). If you haven't had Netflix before you can get a free month's trial by signing up and then cancelling before the month is up - binge watch the lot in a weekend or two?

In other news, I tried Comrade Detective on Amazon Prime last night. Interesting premise but I don't know if it's enough to support a full series - an detective series set in 1980's Romania, effectively a communist version of all those 80s US cop shows. Worth another look though.

Also watching Kerry is Kirsty on BBC Alba (8.30pm Mondays or the iPlayer whenever you like, you choose) which despite being in Gaelic with English subtitles is an interestingly watchable bike based travelogue with top MTB'ers Kerry and Kirsty MacPhee.

 

[gbb]

Call the midwife courtesy of my wife

Plummy voiced, funny vocabulary, weepy sentimental claptrap music.

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[Richard A Thackeray]

KIndig Customs earlier, with that utterly gorgeous '55 Nomad


http://www.kindigit.com/gallery/1955-nomad/

 

[Levo-Lon]

Endeavour