Rolling iPlayer and 4OD and iTVPlayer 2015

(it's OK, jed_, I don't mind really. It's not like people weren't watching it at the time. My qualifying round from Wednesday is probably on 4od as well, where I actually win on my own merits rather than by that guy not knowing the alphabet)

Congratulations! That's amazing.

btw I totally knew most of the other answers too, was just shaking too much to even try to hit the buzzer at some stages. And I absolutely can't believe the one I got wrong was about red wine (anyone who knows me irl will have been finding that hilarious). My brain just blanked out and I thought she'd said black bird (merlot is from the French for blackbird, a useless fact I learned at a pub quiz once and thought might have come in handy one day. As it would have done if that had actually been the bloody question).

where I actually win on my own merits rather than by that guy not knowing the alphabet

He panicked 'cause you had him on the run!

Yeah, exactly. There was a bit where he looked across and you could see he was thinking 'how am i going to shake her'. still lolling at 'Freetown' being the Italian for Three Cities tho, which i realise is unfair given the stress and the stupid things it can make you do. Poor Dave.

Holy shit this is amazing!! Well done ailsa!

Thanks! Still weird! Nearly everyone else involved was proper quizzy folk, including a former Mastermind champion, an Only Connect winner, a Brain of Britain, people who won proper amounts of money on WWTBAM, etc. I felt like such a noob while everyone was sitting there discussing all the telly programmes they'd done and I was all "er, I do OK in a couple of pub quizzes in my home town and, um, that's it". They record Eggheads in the studio next door and a couple of the Eggheads popped in to chat to their quiz mates who were competing and I was all "holy shit what am I even doing here?".

night manager is/was ace

(not sure if this is the most recent iplayer thread)

I can't stand Hugh Laurie so couldn't get through it.

Also following plots is not my strong point. Ha

It's quite slow and I basically hate every single character in it.

I know the last episode's leaked, but I don't care enough to not just wait until next Sunday to watch it.

huh i didnt find it that slow but yeah definitely full of horrible ppl

laurie plays a total cunt so surely if you hate him it 'works'?

olivia colman's not horrible, david harewood's not horrible, douglas hodge, elizabeth debicki etc

apart from the slightly unrealistic lack of surveillance cameras i've been sucked right into every twist and turn

for me, this years best thriller so far : trapped.

it should still all be up on the iplayer.

highly recommended.

however, make sure you put the heating on before you watch it.

no, first episode was 13 Feb 2016 so that's gone now.

(i've not watched it yet, what with this and all the Walter Presents stuff that they are showing at the moment there are like 3 or so decent foreign dramas running at the same time and i find it hard to keep up)

speaking of which

Deutschland 83 was ok, cold war germany, but it was focussed on 25 year olds and i had difficulty caring.
Spin 1 (FR) was like a less interesting Borgen.
Resistance (FR, last year) WWII resistance had the same problems as DE83.
Thicker than water (SE) - not seen yet

and the new BBC4
Follow The Money (DA) - not seen yet

Trapped >> D83 > Spin > Night Manager of the ones I've seen

The Norwegian series Okkupert is pretty good. It might even get better by season 2.

it's 2016!

series 2 of Spin (FR) was like a less interesting version of series 1. i lasted 1.5 episodes and deleted the rest unwatched.

watched all 10 hours of Trapped (IS) over the weekend and it held my attention but it didn't feel particularly icelandic to me, was nothing much to differentiate it from other scandi noir. i liked the irony of getting trapped in a freezer in iceland though. they really should put handles on the inside of those things.

Blue Eyes (SW) has started to replace Spin on friday nights. synopsis sounds identical to Spin S1E1 though 8)

line of duty is back and is great obv

yeah, ep 1 of LOD was very good.
hope the rest keeps up the pace.
watched the bbc3/bbc2 drama, thirteen, yesterday.
not too bad.
a few sticky points about it, but overall, it was very well done.

Railway Walks with Hidden Killers, bold and exciting new programming from bbc4

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Always knew Julia Bradbury was a mofo with some dark secrets.