What TV are you watching?

[stephec]

Time for Call the Midwife.

Have you read the books that the series was originally based on?

If you have then you'll recognise most episodes from the first two series, but after that it starts to turn into fiction.

It's like the Miranda Hart character, she does go to Africa but actually stays there and is never seen again, I started to get a bit bored after the third series when they began making things up. 😂

 

[Marchrider]

after all the fuss about Gavin and Stacey (best thing ever apparently ) , we gave it 20 minutes tonight - what utter and total drivel

 

[Electric_Andy]

after all the fuss about Gavin and Stacey (best thing ever apparently ) , we gave it 20 minutes tonight - what utter and total drivel

Have you watched all the previous episodes? It only makes sense if you have

 

[Marchrider]

Have you watched all the previous episodes? It only makes sense if you have

No - and from what I have seen I never will.

 

[geocycle]

Watcning Vengeance Most Fowl
Very good indeed
Quite a Lancastrian benefit show!!

Peter Kay (as Police Inspector)
Lauren Patel (PC Mukhergee, from Bolton)
Diane Morgan (Onya Doorstep, from Bolton)

Well it’s Christmas! I liked the county boundary markers.

 

[Marchrider]

Well it’s Christmas! I liked the county boundary markers.

Yes - I spotted that

I hadn't really wanted to watch it but the wife put it on - it was brilliant, so cleverly done, may be the best thing on TV this xmas

 

[wiggydiggy]

I got excited when in Call the Midwife they said they were going to rob a post office, sadly that happened off screen.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Watched the 1983 “Christmas Special” of All Creatures last night. Quite watchable but not a single mention of Christmas. Funny how the meaning of “Christmas Special” must have changed over the years.

I definitely prefer the current Channel 5 All Creatures, much more fun.

And speaking of fun, finished watching Only Child last night, an absolute gem. Hopefully they will be making a further series.

 

[T4tomo]

No - and from what I have seen I never will.

brilliant!

 

[T4tomo]

The Wallace & Gromet special was excellent

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Managed to watch the new All Creatures Great & Small special earlier today

Thought l recognised the old Pigeon chap
He was in that supermarket comedy with Victoria Wood about 30 years ago

It was good to see Mrs Hall featured prominently again

 

[DRM]

Wallace and Gromit was unbelievably good. Lots of jokes that it might help being a northerner for but just brilliant. Canal boat ‘car chase’ was a first! How they do it is beyond me.

Especially the Accrington Queen canal boat, I wonder if the wardrobe was full of cordings jackets & trousers!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Especially the Accrington Queen canal boat, I wonder if the wardrobe was full of cordings jackets & trousers!

A nod to The African Queen, the Humphrey Bogart film?

 

[Marchrider]

The Wallace & Gromet special was excellent

it was wasn't it, how did they make the plastic penguin (Feathers McGraw) look so sinister - it was intimidating!

 

[wafter]

This week I have been mostly escaping the miserable rigors of reality through the conduit of gritty '80s Glasgee crime mini-series Taggart

after all the fuss about Gavin and Stacey (best thing ever apparently ) , we gave it 20 minutes tonight - what utter and total drivel

Anything's going to struggle if it involves James Cordon - I suspect he'd manage to irrecoverably sully even the greatest televisual achievements with his presence if given the opportunity... like a damp turd left inside the finest silk purse.