What TV are you watching?

[Profpointy]

Last night a fantastically good classic Star Trek episode. "Balance of Terror" where they first meet the Romulans. It's a cat and mouse battle between two equally willey captains, and basically it's a remake of the excellent film Enemy Bellow in a similar story of a battle of wits between a destroyer captain (Robert Mitchum) and his U boat adversery. The tension is palpable and Shatner really shows he can actually act. Some of the old Star Treks are of their time but thai was great, remake of a war film as it may be

 

[Profpointy]

Brilliant programme on BBC4 the other night, and still available on listen-against.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ry9jq

This first episode was on Jocelyn Bell-burrel's career and her discovery of the first pulsars. She genuinely didn't seem bitter that her prof and dept head got the nobel prize, but still, without her dogged thoroughness, they would likely have missed it. Still, it's her name that would be the answer in any pub quiz on the subject. Another delightfull snippet is an account of another lady at an observatory open day commenting that the star in the Crab Nebula was flickering, only to be pooh-poohed (naturaly enough to be fair), by the resident astronomer. 30 pulses per sec must have been right on the margin of perception.

Any way, brilliant television, and a contrast with the many dumbed down documentaries. Episode 1 of 3 on other influencial seekers of knowledge

 

[AndyRM]

Narcos - Blasted straight through to Season 2 - hard hitting but rather good !

I thought the second series was better than the first. I got a bit bored watching Pablo Escobar mooching around and eating eggs.

 

[User6179]

Conviction- Murder in Suburbia

Pretty poor compared to the previous Murder at the Station, Never actually investigated anything and the forensics expert talking bollocks.

 

[Sandra6]

The crossing.
Actually has a similar back story to 12monkeys, but is totally different at the same time. 7/10 so far

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Just watched the Channel 5 programme that was on last week about building the Grand Union Canal
http://www.channel5.com/show/building-britains-canals/
Next episode should be a bit more interesting to me, as it's about the Leeds - Liverpool

Watched it earlier this evening. rather good!!

Plus, the 2nd half of an episode of The Professionals
http://www.mark-1.co.uk/Professionals/b02.htm

There's a superb speech to the Press/Jury by Cowley in it, about CI5, being Surgeons & cutting out the rot in society

Gotham series four part two... it's as enjoyable as ever.

It is indeed, but I'm a bit on front of you. as episode 11 was broadcast last Tuesday

 

[Levo-Lon]

Just trying Goliath ,looks good

 

[Lullabelle]

24 hours in police custody.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Jeeves & Wooster

 

[AndyRM]

Luke Cage is back! He's become an internet sensation and now embracing his hero status, which is cool. A new gang is on the scene and their leader has worked out how to recreate some of Luke's power. It has my favourite soundtrack of all the Marvel shows on Netflix too, which isn't surprising given it's partly scored by Ali Shaheed Muhammed of Tribe Called Quest fame.

 

[AndyRM]

Also, Queer Eye, which is incredibly entertaining. The Fab 5 all have different roles in "improving" folk in the space of a week, only they don't really do much...

Bobby sort of designs things, probably contributes the most, though Jonathan clearly knows how to cut hair (just not his own). Antoni is the most basic "chef" I've seen, clearly just there for looks, likewise Koroma. Tan is the most hilarious as he does the same thing every time, a half tucked in shirt, brown mid height shoes of some kind and rolling up your sleeves a bit.

 

[Serge]

Just trying Goliath ,looks good

It's excellent, season two starts soon so I can't wait.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Gotham
Late last night; home from work @ 22:45, shower, & watch it while eating a bite of tea/supper

Spoiler: Don't read if you haven't seen

ToyMaster makes an appearance
Jim Gordon comes face to face, with Lee Thompkins again
Poison Ivy resurfaces, as the Chorophylled criminal
Alfred is arrested for murder !!
Harvey Bullock reappears

 

[Profpointy]

I caught up with this last night, and you're right, it was excellent. What a fantastic woman.

Immediately after was a programme about Ada Lovelace; arguably the first computer programmer. She collaborated with Charles Babbage - presumably the mathematical underpinnings, on his mechanical computers. Sadly I nodded off as it was on quite late. Programme seemed pretty good though, so will give it another go

 

[cisamcgu]

I'm aware of her, and saw the link to the programme. I think it might have been more a case of Babbage collaborating with her though.

Not really, Babbage was a mechanical engineer and mathematician first and foremost, he designed and built the machines. Lovelace realised that it had a greater potential - they worked in tandem rather than one more than the other.

Just checked wiki, and it turns out he was also very grumpy