What TV are you watching?

[MontyVeda]

I quite fancy watching that but my favourite Penguin backstory so far is Robin Lord Taylor's version in Gotham.

Yes he was brilliant. This Penguin is nothing like him nor is it trying to be. That is to its credit. It's worth a watch I reckon, my only gripe is it's just not Gothammy enough.

 

[Gunk]

Just finished The Breakthrough on Netflix, very moving Swedish drama about the 2004 Linkoping Murders.

 

[biggs682]

For whatever reason we have never watched Silent witness before but started watching current series and really enjoying it.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I've just finished Peter Capaldi's run of Dr Who, leading directly into Jodie Whitakers run. I think his run is the last classic series of Dr Who as from this point in the story is building to a load of nonsense (timeless child/flux) and it's eventual reboot with Ncuti Gatwa Disney sponsored Dr Who. Theres nothing wrong with any of that of course, Dr Who's had more reboots, rewrites and contradiction in its own story than any other show I can think of but for every good episode with Jodie Whitaker I'll be thinking 'oh theres that bloody timeless child/flux nonsense coming at the end'. Oh well

 

[T4tomo]

For whatever reason we have never watched Silent witness before but started watching current series and really enjoying it.

thats next on our list i think having finished the excellent SAS rogue Heroes.
you have plenty of back series of Silent Witness to go at!

 

[Mo1959]

For whatever reason we have never watched Silent witness before but started watching current series and really enjoying it.

This has been a good series. I thought the last series lost its way a bit, but it’s been much better this series.

 

[biggs682]

thats next on our list i think having finished the excellent SAS rogue Heroes.
you have plenty of back series of Silent Witness to go at!

That's true

 

[matticus]

having finished the excellent SAS rogue Heroes.

Same here. And a rare occasion of the last episode being one of the best!
(there were quite a few "really??" moments in it - like the wind-up gramophone on the plane - that seemed so irrelevant to the story line that I think they MUST be true oddities that the writers were desperate to cram in!)

 

[Mike_P]

This has been a good series. I thought the last series lost its way a bit, but it’s been much better this series.

If you stream it off iPlayer its slightly shorter viewing time as you can skip the intro and on the 2nd one the recap.

 

[T4tomo]

Same here. And a rare occasion of the last episode being one of the best!
(there were quite a few "really??" moments in it - like the wind-up gramophone on the plane - that seemed so irrelevant to the story line that I think they MUST be true oddities that the writers were desperate to cram in!)

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/...yne-who-fought-for-a-free-world/36402927.html

seems that one probably was

 

[matticus]

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/...yne-who-fought-for-a-free-world/36402927.html

seems that one probably was

Thanks - good find!
(recent articles in that paper commenting on the TV series are a lot more desperate to portray him as some perfect Ulsterman - your one is happy to be more balanced.)

 

[kapelmuur]

Same here. And a rare occasion of the last episode being one of the best!
(there were quite a few "really??" moments in it - like the wind-up gramophone on the plane - that seemed so irrelevant to the story line that I think they MUST be true oddities that the writers were desperate to cram in!)

The scene in episode 5 where they blow up an Italian train which was hauled by a 1950s built British loco complete with British Railways number on the smokebox door had me wondering, not for the first time, why production companies don’t give a toss about accuracy when it comes to railways.

They may as well have the troops driving around in Range Rovers instead of jeeps.

 

[matticus]

The scene in episode 5 where they blow up an Italian train which was hauled by a 1950s built British loco complete with British Railways number on the smokebox door had me wondering, not for the first time, why production companies don’t give a toss about accuracy when it comes to railways.

They may as well have the troops driving around in Range Rovers instead of jeeps.

<i really shouldn't get into YET ANOTHER discussion about this, but anyway ...>
1. The prog is declared in a very plain large font early on as NOT A HISTORY LESSON (they made a 3hour documentary about the SAS recently, so watch that if you prefer facts over drama/fun)
2. I would imagine renting (and/or blowing up) correct rolling stock is an incredibly expensive business. It's not a Netflix film - this stuff is all paid for out of our licence fee. The trains aren't on screen for very long, so I'd rather they focused the spending on jeeps, scripts, uniforms, actors, cameras ...

 

[kapelmuur]

<i really shouldn't get into YET ANOTHER discussion about this, but anyway ...>
1. The prog is declared in a very plain large font early on as NOT A HISTORY LESSON (they made a 3hour documentary about the SAS recently, so watch that if you prefer facts over drama/fun)
2. I would imagine renting (and/or blowing up) correct rolling stock is an incredibly expensive business. It's not a Netflix film - this stuff is all paid for out of our licence fee. The trains aren't on screen for very long, so I'd rather they focused the spending on jeeps, scripts, uniforms, actors, cameras ...

Thanks for the patronising tone.

They don’t blow anything up, they show a train approaching then a staged explosion at the tunnel mouth.

While they were on location in Croatia they could have have nipped into Italy to shoot footage of a vintage Italian train, they chose to film the scene in Hampshire, the set up would not have been any cheaper.

 

[matticus]

Thanks for the patronising tone.

They don’t blow anything up, they show a train approaching then a staged explosion at the tunnel mouth.

While they were on location in Croatia they could have have nipped into Italy to shoot footage of a vintage Italian train, they chose to film the scene in Hampshire, the set up would not have been any cheaper.

I was answering your general complaint:

... not for the first time, why production companies don’t give a toss about accuracy when it comes to railways

...so your response about "nipping into Italy" doesn't really apply. The production company will use the cheapest train available to them, including travel costs etc. Hampshire is within a day's drive from London, so I can well believe it was cheaper to film there - but I don't know the specifics of this production.