2 hours ago, moi said:

I am shocked to the core. You don't like Game of Thrones or Spartacus. You, @yorkleyblue who for so many years now have headed my Shedenders to fantasize about list! And now you confess to being unmoved by the charms of Tyrion and Gannicus. Alas and alack , how are the mighty fallen.

 

Try Vikings - Floki is a delightful character.

There is a New Zealand series called Top of The Lake, which stars Elisabeth Moss ( Madmen and The Handmaid's Tale). It also has Peter Mullan in it, which is always a plus.

 

Now I have a serious problem. Who on earth is going to take your place at the top of my list?

 

 

Vikings is excellent,  nice and bloody too at times,  I'm slightly in love with lagertha too... 

3 minutes ago, dkw said:

Vikings is excellent,  nice and bloody too at times,  I'm slightly in love with lagertha too... 

vikings is awesome, i am well into the latest season and it is still quality, ivar and the bishop are top characters 

Grand Tour if you were a fan of proper Top Gear. It’s basically the same show. If not then don’t bother!

The End of the f**king World is the new best thing on Netflix. It's a short British dark-comedy series about a teenage psychopath who befriends a troubled girl with the intention to murder her, however they get into a series of tangles together and develop a deep bond. It starts off a bit like a young Dexter but is so much better than that.

On 2/16/2018 at 19:07, moi said:

................... Tyrion and Gannicus. .................... Floki ........................

These are NOT words

There is a New Zealand series called Top of The Lake, which stars Elisabeth Moss ( Madmen and The Handmaid's Tale). It also has Peter Mullan in it, which is always a plus.

Top of the Lake was on BBC recently.  I tried it but thought it was trying too hard and I gave up after a few episodes

Now I have a serious problem. Who on earth is going to take your place at the top of my list?

I will always be on top, except when I'm underneath, obviously.

 

 

On 2/16/2018 at 21:59, dkw said:

.................lagertha ........ 

This is another made-up word.  Jeez, this place is getting to be like a Hair Product commercial.  Or an alternative therapists' seminar about homeopathy.

On a positive note though, thanks for all the sensible hints and tips

Anyone catch any of The Brits last night? The Mrs and daughter were watching it and I caught a bit before I took to bed for an early night - What A Load Of sh*te!!

Shows your age when so many of the acts / artists mean absolutely nothing to you. And the acceptance speaches were some of the most cringe-worthy I have seen / heard.

And even someone I am a fan of, Damon Albarn (Chelsea Fan) made a fool of himself with his drunken anti-brexit speach

I saw a few things, why was some d**khead smashing a car up while talking crap, and who actually likes that stormsy dig muck? 

21 hours ago, Nibs said:

Anyone catch any of The Brits last night? The Mrs and daughter were watching it and I caught a bit before I took to bed for an early night - What A Load Of sh*te!!

Shows your age when so many of the acts / artists mean absolutely nothing to you. And the acceptance speaches were some of the most cringe-worthy I have seen / heard.

And even someone I am a fan of, Damon Albarn (Chelsea Fan) made a fool of himself with his drunken anti-brexit speach

Award shows in general feel a bit old hat now. 

Music ones in particular are a bit random because a lot of music is now listened via streaming services like Spotify and even YouTube I think it's hard to reward musicians on their success. 

I mean to say X artist is the best male artist of the year or whatever is surely not quite a subjective thing? 

I don't follow music that closely, I have my group of bands that I like and am quite blinkered to a lot of what goes on outside of that. 

 

39 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Award shows in general feel a bit old hat now. 

Music ones in particular are a bit random because a lot of music is now listened via streaming services like Spotify and even YouTube I think it's hard to reward musicians on their success. 

I mean to say X artist is the best male artist of the year or whatever is surely not quite a subjective thing? 

I don't follow music that closely, I have my group of bands that I like and am quite blinkered to a lot of what goes on outside of that. 

 

These are my feelings exactly. Music award shows are irrelevant now. 

Dark - looks very similar to stranger things

And an Anime 'Fullmetal Alchmeist'

Suits! 

Not a show but a clip of the late, great Rikki Fulton as the Rev I M Jolly. Wonderful

 

The Looming Tower.  Pre 9/11 drama based against real events with FBI and CIA tracking Bin Laden. Early days but making of a good series.

Wonder if they will talk about the gold that was removed from the WTC.

The media story was a van containing gold turned over.

The underground story was a security guard at the complex went to see who the people were loading the trucks, he had a pistol and they had sub-machine guns. He decided not to intervene.

7 hours ago, charierre said:

The Looming Tower.  Pre 9/11 drama based against real events with FBI and CIA tracking Bin Laden. Early days but making of a good series.

Tracking him pretty f**king poorly I'd say! 

Just caught up with The Bridge. Scandinavian crime drama which rivals The Killing. Excellent 1st series. Full box set on BBC I-Player at present.

3 minutes ago, charierre said:

Just caught up with The Bridge. Scandinavian crime drama which rivals The Killing. Excellent 1st series. Full box set on BBC I-Player at present.

First series was excellent, then it all went to cack for the remaining series - a case of trying to hard to be enigmatic and smouldering, I think.

Anyone watching Deep State? It’s managing to keep my attention which is an achievement. 

The Terror. , Five episodes in , excellent so far. 

Watched a very interesting programme about Bletchley Park on Monday night. It was on BBC 4. The programme concentrated on the work of Bill Tutte a maths student from Cambridge University and Tommy Flowers who worked for the GPO (the precursor of BT).

A lot of people have heard of Turing because of his work on breaking the Enigma code: some of that is due to the way he was treated in the 1950s because of his homosexuality, the book Enigma by Richard Harris and the film, The Imitation Game. Tutte's success was in breaking the codes used by the Lorenz machine (called Tunny by the British). The Lorenz machine was used by German High Command to share information around Europe. The Lorenz machine and the codes it created were more complex than the Enigma and its codes. Breaking the Lorenz code allowed the Allies to do, among other things, notify the Soviets of German plans in advance of the Battle of Kursk and and notify senior Allied commanders that the Germans had fallen for the deceptions created by the Double Cross committee which gave the impression that the D-Day landings in Normandy were a feint for the main invasion in the Pas de Calais area.

Flowers built a machine which allowed for quicker reading of the codes picked up the code-breakers. Until then the work had to be done by hand. In effect, Flowers invented the world's first programmable computer.

Sadly, the work of the Tutte, Flowers and all the others who worked in Bletchley Park was lost until the seventies when accounts of the work seeped out. After WW", those who worked at Bletchley Park were told to keep quiet by the British Government about their work due to the Official Secrets Act. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016ltm0/timewatch-codebreakers-bletchley-parks-lost-heroes

@erskblue If you have a chance, watch the programme as I know you are very interested in military history. Bletchey Park is a fascinating place. Worth a visit.

On 27/04/2018 at 22:45, charierre said:

The Terror. , Five episodes in , excellent so far. 

died a death 

On 24/05/2018 at 09:24, Boyne said:

Watched a very interesting programme about Bletchley Park on Monday night. It was on BBC 4. The programme concentrated on the work of Bill Tutte a maths student from Cambridge University and Tommy Flowers who worked for the GPO (the precursor of BT).

Watched it last night, very interesting indeed. Thanks for the recommendation. 

2 hours ago, Munkworth said:

Watched it last night, very interesting indeed. Thanks for the recommendation. 

You're welcome. If you get the chance visit Bletchley Park. It's a fascinating place. I've been there many times over the years and I've also read many books about the place. The more I learn about the place, the more I'm impressed by the people who worked there. Some of the people who worked there in WW2 are still alive and visit the place occasionally to give talks. I believe that one American general described Bletchley Park as the U.K.'s greatest contribution to the Allied cause in WW2.

Series Five of Inspector Montalbano. An excellent programme. I've watched most of the series which have been broadcast on the BBC over the last few years. Very good adaptations of the books by Andrea Camilleri.