A thread to recommend stuff on the BBC

[gassor]

I hadn't heard the story behind the film 'Foxcatcher'*, but it is pretty incredible. Steve Carrel and Channing Tatum are both in Oscar winning territory with this story of the US wrestling team going to the Olympics.

*On iPlayer at present.

 

[misterdog]

I've never watched ballet before but the sampler video makes me think I should - especially a ballet with lasers and stuff!

Another sampler, if you don't love the first 6 minutes of this, do not continue.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVLFh0tPTlQ


Max Richter also composed the soundtrack to Taboo which has been the best drama of the year so far on the BBC IMO.

 

[windhoek]

Another sampler, if you don't love the first 6 minutes of this, do not continue.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVLFh0tPTlQ


Max Richter also composed the soundtrack to Taboo which has been the best drama of the year so far on the BBC IMO.

Six minutes in and I like it

 

[vuk]

I just watched the last episode of The Art of Japanese Life

this is indeed excellent. would rather watch it another 200 times than the latest game of thrones attempt at entertainment engineering -- it's a sad world in which we still don;t have season 2 of wolf hall, which is the real deal.



vuk.

 

[misterdog]

New Top Of The Lake starting Thurs. 27th.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017...-the-lake-china-girl-in-one-go-on-bbc-iplayer

The first series written and directed by Jane Campion (The Piano) was excellent.

 

[Weekender]

Quacks: A Victorian medical comedy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/quacks
Full series available on i-player.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...al-comedy-will-have-you-stitches-rory-kinnear

The Telegraph review was a bit harsh: "Sitcoms set in the past – even the deliciously OTT Blackadder – often struggle to rise above undergraduate level, and such was the case here."
That's precisely why I like it...

 

[sean99]

Currently over in the UK and enjoying "The Brain" by Brian Eagleman:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjrdp

Interesting look at how we process and perceive the world around us.

 

[droodzilla]

I think Detectorists is one of the best comedies the BBC has produced for a while. It's very gentle and has some rather lovely shots of the English countryside + a folky soundtrack. It's a real hidden gem and I'm looking forward to the last episode of series 3 this week.

 

[sean99]

I think Detectorists is one of the best comedies the BBC has produced for a while. It's very gentle and has some rather lovely shots of the English countryside + a folky soundtrack. It's a real hidden gem and I'm looking forward to the last episode of series 3 this week.

That's on Netflix in the US - I watched and episode which was pleasant but a bit slow so I passed on it. I'll have to give it another look.

 

[Tony L]

A repeat, but shown last night so on iPlayer for a month: The Rules Of Abstraction with Matthew Collings, a superb 90 minute overview of abstract art.

 

[Joe Hutch]

Far From the Madding Crowd; a not-bad adaptation spoiled to some extent by the mumbling of the bloke who plays Gabriel Oak, and some inappropriately modern language. Why not just use Hardy's words, which are perfectly understandable to a modern audience. It's not as if it's Chaucer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06pptv8/far-from-the-madding-crowd

 

[TheDecameron]

Far From the Madding Crowd; a not-bad adaptation spoiled to some extent by the mumbling of the bloke who plays Gabriel Oak, and some inappropriately modern language. Why not just use Hardy's words, which are perfectly understandable to a modern audience. It's not as if it's Chaucer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06pptv8/far-from-the-madding-crowd

Were there any Pimm's No.1 Cup incidents in the story?

 

[Joe Hutch]

Were there any Pimm's No.1 Cup incidents in the story?

No

Spoiler Alert: A sheepdog gets shot (off camera).

 

[TheDecameron]

That's far worse than a digestif incident.

 

[guey]

Mark Gatiss' series of monologues for the gay Britannia series, Queers, are all excellent.

 

[Still]

Spoiler Alert: A sheepdog gets shot (off camera).

There was a time when a fearless BBC would've shown a Michael Heseltine look-a-like strangling it.

 

[theadmans]

I think Detectorists is one of the best comedies the BBC has produced for a while. It's very gentle and has some rather lovely shots of the English countryside + a folky soundtrack. It's a real hidden gem and I'm looking forward to the last episode of series 3 this week.

...I really like this series too. Do you mean Series 2 as I think Series 3 is not out yet (filming of Series 3 was this Summer I think) ?

My son is a member of a local Radio Control boat club in Hertfordshire. The stereotype of these Hobbyist clubs is spot on in the Detectorists. Just last Sunday I was asked at the model boat club if members wanted Club fleeces or gilets ordering. I recalled the bulk order of fleeces put in by the Detectorists club !

 

[blossomchris]

Pleased to hear they are doing a third series. Great skill to write/act a comedy with little going on. Classic.


Bloss

 

[Suffolk Tony]

Another Dectectorists fan here. Lovely gentle humour, great characters & acting; Toby Jones is particularly good. It shows the geeky side of hobbyists without demeaning. Oh, then there's Diana Rigg's daughter.

 

[MikeMA]

............The stereotype of these Hobbyist clubs is spot on in the Detectorists. Just last Sunday I was asked at the model boat club if members wanted Club fleeces or gilets ordering. ........

Careful now.....they do t shirts over on HiFi Wigwam.

Agree though that Detectorists is very good! I hope it's repeated as I missed the first series.