If anyone wants some nonsense to watch Clash of the Comics (a charity wrestling match with comedians & professional wrestlers) is on U&Dave. If you can spot me in the crowd you need to answer some questions because none of you know what I look like.

Will watch this. It's many years since I've read the book and I should read it again. One of the great works of literature. It's in French with English subtitles.

BBC

BBC Four - The Count of Monte Cristo, Series 1, Episode 1

Falsely accused of treason, Edmond Dantès is arrested for a crime he did not commit.

BBC

BBC Four - The Count of Monte Cristo, Trailer: Series 1

Imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, a man seeks revenge on those who betrayed him

I keep meaning to watch Mr Inbetween from what I’ve seen of it from YT clips. Can anyone recommend?

1 hour ago, The Boehly Babes said:

I keep meaning to watch Mr Inbetween from what I’ve seen of it from YT clips. Can anyone recommend?

It’s Australian, a few years old now. Australian friends in the industry liked it a lot. Dark comedy/drama, dry Australian humour.

Not sure where to put this but actor Anthony Head has died at the terribly young age of 72. The obits rattle on about Buffy, Ted Lasso, etc, none of which I ever saw, but I'll forever remember him for lighting up Mark Evans' sublime Dickensian spoof Bleak Expectations on R4 and still repeated on R4 Extra. As Pip's nemesis, the wonderfully named Mr. Gently Benevolent, he stole the show.

Such was his importance to the show that, in one of the later series, he was working in the States and apparently unavailable for the live recording. This problem they solved by patching him in live from the States and, in his place on stage, they propped a broom up against a microphone with a hat on top of it.

He also appeared in one-off shows like New Tricks and doubtless others. I though he was good in these.

I never watched much of Men Behaving Badly yet just discovered that Neil Morrissey was a biker called Rocky in the tv program Boon,

9 minutes ago, strider6004 said:

He also appeared in one-off shows like New Tricks and doubtless others. I though he was good in these.

I never watched much of Men Behaving Badly yet just discovered that Neil Morrissey was a biker called Rocky in the tv program Boon,

Excellent, underrated actor is Neil Morrissey. He was terrific as the shady copper NIgel Morton in Line Of Duty.

Caught some of Steve Backshall last night on BBC2 with an expedition to Gabon, now I have seen him rock climbing before in Alalska which was not my thing. Yet this one was very good.

It reminded me of Tarzan that was shown on TV in the 70s in black and white as they ventured into tributaries of a major river venturing into canyons even the locals did not visit.

Very interesting as it looked untouched with vines that helped them get down the rocks and day-glow Kingfishers that were not bothered about people, lemurs or monkeys high in the trees screaming warnings and dwarf crocodiles with one almost jumping into their canoe.

Later the river current up-turns thier canoes and the program gets edited a bit.

This is program intro from Freeview

Regarded as the Eden of Africa, Gabon is one of the most biodiverse countries on the planet – home to gorillas, chimpanzees, crocodiles and forest elephants. With 80 per cent of the country covered by almost impenetrable rainforest, much of Gabon remains unexplored. On this expedition, Steve and the team head into a remote part of the Moukalaba-Doudou National Park. Cut off from the outside world by the Doudou mountains, this ‘unknown zone’ has never been explored – until now. Teaming up with local jungle guide Ghislain Bouassa and primatologist Alessandra Mascaro, Steve hopes to discover whether this unexplored jungle could be home to an undiscovered population of chimpanzees. The local Punu community relate tales of a mythical canyon – a place where they believe the river disappears off the face of the earth. They hold it sacred and have never ventured beyond the canyon, but they have given Steve their blessing to explore it for the first time – to discover what animals are in the jungle beyond.

On 07/06/2026 at 11:32, dermott said:

Excellent, underrated actor is Neil Morrissey. He was terrific as the shady copper NIgel Morton in Line Of Duty.

I saw him with Henry Cole on the Motorbike show this weekend and both him and Neil went on the back of a super bike doing 130mph round a circuit and some of it on just one wheel. Neil said his digestion felt odd after that.