What TV are you watching?

[NorthernDave]

Also The 100, which I still find compelling for reasons that I'm at a complete loss to explain.

I know what you mean - I shouldn't watch it, but I can't help myself!
Even if it does look like a post apocalyptic Hollyoaks, where everyone looks great and oddly has access to cosmetics, hair straighteners and even an electric SUV that appears to charge itself...

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Penny Dreadful season 3: Excellent. This week's episode was possibly one of the best single eps of TV I've ever seen.

It was rather superb, wasn't it

 

[John the Monkey]

I know what you mean - I shouldn't watch it, but I can't help myself!
Even if it does look like a post apocalyptic Hollyoaks, where everyone looks great and oddly has access to cosmetics, hair straighteners and even an electric SUV that appears to charge itself...

No one identified on that space station as an orthodontist either...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Giro d'Italia this afternoon

Yes, I know it's a very nice (ie; should be riding bikes) day, but it's the in-laws golden wedding anniversary, thus indoors, so I've been watching when I could

 

[Berk on a Bike]

It was rather superb, wasn't it

It was incredible. Eva Green is a bloody amazing actress.

 

[John the Monkey]

Upstart Crow (iPlayer)
I quite like this, although there are jokes that you see coming from miles away, David Mitchell and Mark Heap are both great in it, and sometimes, that's enough.

Scream (series, Netflix)
Only two episodes in, but some nice callbacks to the films and pretty watchable.

The Disappearance (iPlayer)
Showing in BBC4's foreign drama slot, this is a French series about a young woman who disappears on a night out. I've only seen the first episode, but it's good so far.

 

[Hill Wimp]

A few others you might enjoy:

Gomorrah
Braquo
Trapped
Dag
The Bridge
Witnesses
Wallander

Yep seen all of them and more. Just seen the last episode of Blue Eyes. Superb.

Looking forward to Dicte the new ( for the UK ) Danish drama.

 

[Leaway2]

The Secret. I have been watching this on ITV hub. A "true" story of a Northern Irish couple, who murdered their spouses. Very well played by James Nesbitt. I was gripped from start to finish.

 

[Leaway2]

That programme is controversial though. See this impassioned article from the couple's real-life daughter. It makes you wonder whether TV companies should be allowed to make programmes like this one really. http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...y-family-traumatised-murder-tv-drama-bereaved

Point taken but does this mean that "stories" can never be told for fear of offending?

 

[John the Monkey]

Scream (Netflix)
Finished the first series - not half bad, and I'm interested to see where the next series goes.

Versailles (iPlayer)
An odd mixture of luxuriant pomp, sex, and brutality. Quite engrossing, but hard to sympathise with any of the characters.

The 100 (All4)
Well, that's it for that series, with a cliffhanger set up for the next season too. I'll be watching...

 

[AndyRM]

The Aliens - top notch blend of social commentary, drama, humour and tragedy. My only criticism is that it's a lot like In The Flesh (also brilliant, a really clever take on the often tired zombie genre) , but then it was created by the same guy.

We rattled through 5 of the six episodes this evening, and I often find when doing that the shows follow a similar arc (Daredevil I'm looking at you, though you are also great) each time, but this is really well paced and balanced.

 

[tfg71]

Watched the pilot of Outcast , and first episode of preacher they look like they might be fun.

Vikings
Black sails
Wild things - so want to go on that show as it looks so much fun
Need to get back into breaking bad

 

[Levo-Lon]

X files..series one.. this may have been a mistake.. i watched the first 6,7 series so remember most of the story lines.
Not much on at the moment..i watched Gomorrah again,superb cant wait for series 2

 

[AndyRM]

I tend to avoid ITV stuff so I'd missed The Secret.

Two thoughts on using the real life event:

Would the remaining family not have been given the chance to sign it off?

Could the writer have not altered the story to have the events as inspiration but changed enough you couldn't tell who it was?

Apologies if those have been covered in the article, it won't load for me.

 

[AndyRM]

In answer to your questions: No, the family were not consulted. Someone had already written an unauthorised book about the events, which gave the TV company the out that they were simply making a film of the book. Some aspects of the story were indeed altered, to make it more 'dramatic' and fit it into the template of 'murder porn' that is so fashionable at the moment. In the article the murdered woman's daughter explains how her mother was not at all the downtrodden housewife apparently portrayed in The Secret, and how in complaining to the TV company about the programme being made at all she received emails with her mother's name misspelled. Very sad, and also unnecessary when there are so many works of fiction that could be serialised instead.

Thank you. Very sad indeed, but I suppose it's cheaper to buy the rights to some hack book than a good one.

Or, heaven forbid, come up with your own ideas?!