What TV are you watching?

[lazybloke]

I like 24 hrs in A&E, and similar programmes.

Some amazing nhs staff on "Ambulance" earlier this evening (beeb1, i think)

 

[cougie uk]

Most of the first series of Temple - it's a teeny bit far fetched - especially the kidney transplant but OK.
Not as good as The Jackal.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

M*A*S*H last night

 

[raleighnut]

M*A*S*H last night

With the 'laugh track' or without

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

With the 'laugh track' or without

Never really notice when watching it

 

[raleighnut]

Never really notice when watching it

It annoys the carp out of me but then I grew up watching it sans laughtrack.

Quick trivia question...................Who was the only character/actor who made it from the film into the series.

 

[Profpointy]

It annoys the carp out of me but then I grew up watching it sans laughtrack.

Quick trivia question...................Who was the only character/actor who made it from the film into the series.

A bit of a guess but was it Radar?

 

[Drago]

Will finish season 3 of Mayor of Kingstown today. Not one for admirers of the work of Mary Whitehouse.

 

[raleighnut]

A bit of a guess but was it Radar?

Yep.

 

[cyberknight]

On late shift so i normally get to catch up on the tv but mini ck 1 off ill so yesterday i had the joy of watching a k pop boy band just acting erm like young adult men akak twits but making sure all the world got to see the antics

 

[matticus]

Enjoying Moonflower Murders with the always-brilliant Lesley Manville. I read it back at Eastertime and haven't forgotten much of the storyline, but that doesn't spoil it. The preceding series Magpie Murders is also back on iPlayer and is worth watching first, if you haven't already.

Enjoyed Magpie (on a Marple, Sunday tea-time kind of level, not Le Carré level!). Can't get into this one at all.
The structure just isn't gelling with my poor brain.
Partly lack of intellect; I'm trying to follow 2 parallel murder stories with my feeble brain, with same actors playing (slightly) different characters.
And partly: I don't know what to think about the "fictional" plot line. It's a book-within-a-book; should I care about the characters? Or just what happens in the end? Should I be considering who - in the "real world" - is reading it?? I don't know what to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Legs]

Enjoyed Magpie (on a Marple, Sunday tea-time kind of level, not Le Carré level!). Can't get into this one at all.
The structure just isn't gelling with my poor brain.
Partly lack of intellect; I'm trying to follow 2 parallel murder stories with my feeble brain, with same actors playing (slightly) different characters.
And partly: I don't know what to think about the "fictional" plot line. It's a book-within-a-book; should I care about the characters? Or just what happens in the end? Should I be considering who - in the "real world" - is reading it?? I don't know what to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the book, the 'book-within-a-book' (like in Magpie Murders, which I read at Christmastime several years ago in the midst of an horrendous bout of flu) all comes in one chunk. This is all very well, but I did find myself finishing the Pünd story it and then having to readjust my brain to thinking 'Susan who?, Alan who?'

 

[matticus]

In the book, the 'book-within-a-book' (like in Magpie Murders, which I read at Christmastime several years ago in the midst of an horrendous bout of flu) all comes in one chunk. This is all very well, but I did find myself finishing the Pünd story it and then having to readjust my brain to thinking 'Susan who?, Alan who?'

That sounds like an even stranger format! :P

You might find this of interest (from google):
Does Tim McMullan have an eye condition?
Yes, he does. Tim McMullan's distinctive eye appearance is due to a rare medical condition known as Blepharophimosis syndrome.

According to Cleveland Clinic, Blepharophimosis syndrome, also called BPES, is a genetic disorder that affects how your eyelids develop and look. This syndrome is categorised by narrow eye openings, droopy eyelids and folds of skin on the inner part of the eyes going from the bottom to the upper corner.

 

[MontyVeda]

Enjoyed Magpie (on a Marple, Sunday tea-time kind of level, not Le Carré level!). Can't get into this one at all.
The structure just isn't gelling with my poor brain.
Partly lack of intellect; I'm trying to follow 2 parallel murder stories with my feeble brain, with same actors playing (slightly) different characters.
And partly: I don't know what to think about the "fictional" plot line. It's a book-within-a-book; should I care about the characters? Or just what happens in the end? Should I be considering who - in the "real world" - is reading it?? I don't know what to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know what you mean... but I'm still enjoying it.
I did however guffaw at a line in episode three or four, when the film producer character claimed to have gone for a walk on a beach, but that was claimed to be a lie since that beach is always at high tide after 6pm... erm... doesn't the time of the tide change on a daily basis???

 

[matticus]

The Listeners? With Rebecca Hall? !
Anybody else?
Just amazing, but so tense and unsettling.

(Very like 'Kill You in that respect, but a completely different style of drama.)