I've been watching reruns of Allo, Allo.

Never watched it before yet started watching trying to work out who it appealed to only to find I was actually enjoying it.

Absolutely farcical with some very funny moments. 

 

 

Slow Horses season 2 is back on Apple, Mythic Quest (or Mr Qwest for listeners of the always sunny pod) has been back for a few weeks too. 

This one's good.

 

 

On 03/12/2022 at 20:58, Munkworth said:

Slow Horses season 2 is back on Apple, Mythic Quest (or Mr Qwest for listeners of the always sunny pod) has been back for a few weeks too. 

Slow Horses is really good but I have one gripe which goes back to Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. The young computer nerd his cockney accent is terrible he's an Aussie but why not just cast a young English actor.  Tulsa King with Stallone is surprisingly good but you've got an English actor doing a very ropey Northern Irish accent again if the character is supposed to be Northern Irish just cast one.

But the worse one I ever saw was Good Omens where David Tennant is in a scene with Michael McKean. Tennant is playing an Englishman while McKean an American is playing a Scotsman with the worse och aye Jimmy accent he does Groundkeeper Willie's voice on The Simpsons. Surely David Tennant must have been embarrassed by this I mean off set he would be talking in his normal accent and McKean must have realised his accent was terrible. 😆

I think am a decade too late but my brother has really got me into Still Game. It took me a few episodes to tune into it and I feared at the start another Mrs Brown Boys type program but no it is in a different league. If the late great Robbie Coltrane is a big fan (and played a cameo) then its alright by me 

Its worth watching just for Sanjeed Kohli as Navid ... brilliant 😀

 

 

2 hours ago, andy said:

I think am a decade too late but my brother has really got me into Still Game. It took me a few episodes to tune into it and I feared at the start another Mrs Brown Boys type program but no it is in a different league. If the late great Robbie Coltrane is a big fan (and played a cameo) then its alright by me 

Its worth watching just for Sanjeed Kohli as Navid ... brilliant 😀

 

 

Still Game is brilliant. One of my favourite comedies in recent years. I first watched it a few years ago and have recently started watching it again. The patter and Glaswegian slang are brilliant. One of my favourite characters is Isa.

 

Watching repeats of Morse on ITV3. One of the best detective shows on TV in the last 35 years. Never tire of watching them. The books by Colin Dexter are worth reading.

Anyone watching the new European Super League documentary on Apple? It’s not called Chelsea Fans Save Football for some reason but it’s still very interesting. 

Anyone else watch the first episode of the last of us series?

Very good first episode! Hope it stays as close as possible to the games story, I'd imagine it will expand a bit further mid season but very happy with it so far!

Anyone watching Happy Valley ? the young lad Ryan is the spit of Kepa !

12 hours ago, jack h said:

Anyone else watch the first episode of the last of us series?

Very good first episode! Hope it stays as close as possible to the games story, I'd imagine it will expand a bit further mid season but very happy with it so far!

I thought it was excellent.

Was surprised how close it stayed to the direction of the games, felt almost shot-for-shot in some spots

Watched an episode of My Kind of Town on Thursday. It was about Larkhall in Lanarkshire. Larkhall is a town I know well and it was great to see some of the local sights and hear from the locals. One or two are well-known characters. My late Dad was born there and I have aunts, uncles and cousins. One of my cousins and his wife run a cafe in Larkhall and my cousin's wife was briefly interviewed. @Larky Blue Have you seen the programme?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001hcdc/my-kind-of-town-series-3-3-larkhall

Edited January 21, 20233 yr by Boyne

I've just started watching Hunters on Amazon it's about a sleeper sell of Nazis living in the States in the 70's and is based on a true story. For a storyline so serious it's such a campy load of bollocks with cliched characters. It's got touches of Scooby Doo about it a group of people hunt them down so there's a Foxy Brown character with a huge afro, a John Travolta hipster, a Bruce Lee type, an English nun played by an Australian woman who speaks in a Mary Poppins accent and says thinks like knickers and bollocks to emphasis her Englishness. Even Al Pacino can't hold this together it's dreadful but I'm still going to keep watching ha ha.

On 21/01/2023 at 09:04, Boyne said:

Watched an episode of My Kind of Town on Thursday. It was about Larkhall in Lanarkshire. Larkhall is a town I know well and it was great to see some of the local sights and hear from the locals. One or two are well-known characters. My late Dad was born there and I have aunts, uncles and cousins. One of my cousins and his wife run a cafe in Larkhall and my cousin's wife was briefly interviewed. @Larky Blue Have you seen the programme?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001hcdc/my-kind-of-town-series-3-3-larkhall

They should a second programme,The real Larkhall,that one was mostly sh*t. 😅

9 minutes ago, Larky Blue said:

They should a second programme,The real Larkhall,that one was mostly sh*t. 😅

I thought that the punters in Curlys would be interviewed. Maybe also some music from the Purple Heroes!

Will watch this. Fawlty Towers is one of the funniest comedies I've watched. Brilliantly written and with a great cast. Will be interesting to see how the new series compares to the original. Sadly Andrew Sachs is no longer with us and Prunella Scales is suffering from dementia. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64563839

Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter Camilla.

Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, will be returning to our screens in a new series

Comedy series Fawlty Towers is set to be revived after more than 40 years.

John Cleese, who played Basil Fawlty, will be returning to write and star alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.

The two-series show, which featured on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979, followed the lives of Torquay hotelier Basil and his wife Sybil as they tried to keep their business and marriage afloat.

The new series will explore how the cynical and sarcastic Basil navigates the modern world.

Castle Rock Entertainment announced on Tuesday it had closed a deal with Cleese to bring back the television series.

The revival will also see Basil and his daughter, who he has just discovered is his, team up to run a boutique hotel.

Fawlty Towers was named the greatest British sitcom of all time by a panel of television experts for Radio Times magazine in 2019.

 

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The original cast of Fawlty Towers - Andrew Sachs, Prunella Scales, John Cleese and Connie Booth - on set in 1975

The new series will see actor Rob Reiner, his wife and actress Michelle Reiner, director and producer Matthew George and Derrick Rossi all act as executive producers.

Cleese - one of the original members of Monty Python - said when he first met George "he offered an excellent idea" which led to "one of the best creative sessions I can remember".

"By dessert we had an overall concept so good that, a few days later, it won the approval of Rob and Michele Reiner," he said.

"Camilla and I look forward enormously to expanding it into a series."

Director George said he was "obsessed with Fawlty Towers" and meeting Cleese and his daughter was one of the "great thrills" of his life.

"I've watched the first two seasons so many times I have lost count," he said. "I dreamed of one day being involved in a continuation of the story. Now it's come true."

Reiner described the Fawlty Towers star as a "comedy legend". "Just the idea of working with him makes me laugh."

 

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John Cleese and his daughter Camilla will both be starring in the new series

In 2020, Cleese had a disagreement with the BBC after it temporarily removed a classic episode of Fawlty Towers because of "racial slurs".

The 1975 episode, called The Germans, featured the Major Gowen character using highly offensive language and Basil declaring "don't mention the war".

Cleese criticised the decision, saying: "I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.

"One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour."

Streaming service UKTV temporarily removed the episode while it carried out a review, but it was reinstated with a warning about "offensive content and language".

The original show was written by Cleese and Connie Booth.

In October 2022, the Monty Python actor confirmed he would be hosting his own GB News TV show.

 

20 hours ago, Boyne said:

I thought that the punters in Curlys would be interviewed. Maybe also some music from the Purple Heroes!

Exactly mate,should have came to Purple Heroes band parade,the biggest earner of the year for local pubs or one of the street parties at Larkhall cross after we beat the scum 😂

Two weeks until it’s back. 

Mae Martin for the win. 

Anyone watching or watched that Kaleidoscope series? The one where you can choose the order you watch the episodes in.

For anyone that did what order did you pick out of curiosity? I really like the concept of that I hope we get more series' like it.

Did anyone watch Taskmaster? Good strong opening to the series that. 

Just finished Daisy Jones and the Six. The Rise and fall of a 70s rock band. A nice easy watch and the music is similar in style to Fleetwood Mac. Good soundtrack accompanied led by the theme song by Patti Smith. Recommended.

I was watching Wheeler Dealers yesterday, they bought a TVR Cerbera for £8k  all looked ok though chassis looked somewhat rusty. Decided to take a risk.

On getting it back and jacked up  noticed the whole chassis was rusty and needing replacing, for normal chaps that's a w/off.

However they went for it and stripped it all down and got  new chassis made and rust protected.

Then replaced the shocks and refitted it all together with patching up a few minor things.

Took it for a drive on a private course reaching 0-60 in 4 seconds and went up to 150mph though makers claim 180mph is top limit.

Sold for £14k leaving them with £1,1k heard earned profit