Rolling iPlayer and All 4 and iTVPlayer 2017-2018

(he popped up on imagine (iirc*) as well, that same weekend) was an interesting, slightly different take at the art of the period.

(* there was something on about cindi sherman, might've been that. the other alternative was the thing about the new tate show by the Olafur Eliasson guy)

as mentioned elsewhere, the george clark thing on council houses was v watchable.

and the deller thing about rave culture / riots

There's a documentary about Bruce Chatwin made by Werner Herzog on iPlayer. Nomad, it's called.

yeah i was gonna watch this on broadcast last night but decided to go to sleep cos iplayer exists, looks good tho

howtf is 4od still not HD ? it's 2019

mate they're still using flash.

The original series of The Demon Headmaster is on iPlayer just now if you fancy a wander down memory lane before the reboot airs

anyone else watching giri/haji? really liked the 3 episodes so far though the ending of episode 3 strains credibility beyond breaking point. the lead actor/character is dull but the supporting ones are great. love the pre-episode recaps as well.

Giri/Haji should be total catnip to me - stylish Japanese/London police gangster drama with lots of dry humour. But yeah the lead guy is lacking spark or something.

Gold Digger is good for four episodes then another one of those annoying/frustrating wastes of time that move the goalposts off the playing field.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bh0n

Greg Davis looks back at Kes.

warning: contains Greg Davies

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There's a new show started on CH4 tonight called My Grandparent's War where actors talk about their ancestors' war experiences, obv. The four actors chosen are: Helena Bonham-Carter, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Mark Rylance and Carey Mulligan. Does anyone else see a problem here? In related news, Christopher Eccleston's episode of Who Do You Think You Are was, allegedly, dropped because the researchers thought his working-class background was not interesting enough.

This country is actually making me feel ill.

Yeah I was rolling my eyes at the trailer for that one

Surprised at Rylance for playing along with this horseshit tbh

Rylance is a Shakespeare-didn't-write-Shakespeare nutter, would fall for any old horseshit

biker gang in worzel gummidge was top drawer

Yeah the first episode was competent and good in places but the second knocked it out of the park. I'm still chuckling at "leather milk balloon".

he didn't know and didn't watch the Pertwee version before he'd finished shooting and it has a very different feel.

unthanks on music duties too, which came out of him asking to use magpie song on detectorists

Sounds:

<3 these Stand Up For The Classics that have all just been made into podcasts (meaning they won't expire for over a year)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077x8pc/episodes/guide

🚨 🚨 "NEW PRINT" OF ANDREI RUBLEV ON FILM 4 TONIGHT 🚨 🚨

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000gwzd/how-to-make-series-1-1-the-trainer

this was great, felt like old-school science tv, somehow, like Tomorrow's World. she knows her stuff and is enthusiastic. nice to see behind the scenes at UAL in Granary Square too (given that there probably won't be a degree show this year)

The adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People is incredibly intense and moving. I don't think I've seen anything this deeply felt from the BBC for a long time.It's actually unlike anything I've seen on TV - I have to keep pausing because I'm feeling quite emotionally overwhelmed although I'm feeling that a lot anyway rn. It's a BBC3 co-production with hulu but fate has found it on BBC1 - I assume this was a last-minute programming decision because other series' have not been completed due to we know what. It's probably the least BBC1 thing imaginable but is available in full on the iPlayer. I'm on episode three and haven't read the book so please, no spoilers.

I think the lead time is such that there's enough TV for now, especially drama stuff, but the problem is that nothing is being filmed and that'll lead to problems later. Outside of drama, a friend went to the filming of Christmas QI in October, suggesting the lead time there is a couple of months. But Robin Ince has said that he had to sit on his Celeb Pointless win for over a year before it was broadcast.

The bbc3 on bbc1 slot has been a thing lately. This Country recently. There is plenty more that didn't get a traditional airing, not all of it good.

There's been lots of decent Art on TV recently too. Bbc4 have been going around museums that are on lockdown giving you a peep at, say, the Warhol at the Tate modern that nobody will get to see.

The Basquiat documentary had a repeat last week. There was another about the us art market that had some nice things in it even if the focus was all wrong.

Highlight for me, though, was Grayson Perry just pottering(!) around at home with Philippa, talking to the odd celeb artist on zoom (lycett, lemon), just generally chilling.

Started Giri/Haji. Took an episode to realise that the rent boy is the one who wrote Flowers.

Apparently Normal People is the most watched programme on iplayer ever at this point. I must say that by the time I finished it I didn't like it any more for reasons I don't realy care to go into atm. Not personal reasons really, I'm glad that it has had the impact that it has because it's so unique and its success is so unexpected.

wait, it's the most requested (whatever that means) BBC3 thing not the most-watched thing on the platform.

i think that honour still belongs to rupaul’s drag race

:)

I probably liked both equally.

This is great. BBC iPlayer has announced plans to bring 23 classic RKO films to the service on 18 May.

Anyone catch Brookers 'Antiviral Wipe' last night? I was most pleased he hadn't forgotten about BoJo's 350m Magic Bus

i enjoyed DEVS, (8 x 45m) which is still on iplayer.

i'm refusing to go back to the office until they make us a mag-lev Menger sponge to work in (the vacuum aspect is probably too fiddly though - no toilets?)

also finished Giri / Haji mentioned above and that was great, all sorts of everything in there, including comtemporary dance.

those two and Normal People make it feel like a purple patch for tv at the mo.

A thread for Devs, the new Alex Garland show on FX/HBO (with SPOILERS) in case you have thoughts

The Windrush Scandal drama on BBC1 tonight was very good. It's called Sitting in Limbo.

I finally went in on I May Destroy You and holy fuck. Best show I've seen in a long time.

That show is very confused, imo but there are enough great things in it to keep me watching. I may expand once I've seen this week's episodes.

fwiw, I think the great things are very admirable and the things that I consider to be bad are very confusing, personally. Morally, it seems incredibly weird, at times, but I'm willing to accept that that's part of a greater pattern that is yet to be revealed.

BBC4 seems to be having a black history month all of its own. Which means I get to see The Long Song which I missed at the time.

Also enjoyed the Keith Haring thing on bbc2 recently.

jed I'd be v interested to hear about the things you think are bad. I'll admit there's a lot of the milieu that I'm just kind of taking on faith.

just got aound to watching 'trigonometry' which i'm really enjoying. unless the charcters take a sudden heel turn over the last couple of episodes it's just been nice watching a series where most of the characters are really nice.

Searching For Shergar is back on for a month, FYI

Drowning By Numbers is available on the Channel 4 app at the moment.

oh sweet thanks

Cheers!

The Mole is fantastic

2-part doc on a Danish amateur spy, incredibly well shot and a really unusual vibe to it.

Will check it out!

Is this thread the only mention of Unforgotten on this board? Hadn't heard much about it but I quite liked it for a police procedural. I wouldn't say there's a lot to distinguish it, but the pacing and execution was on-point

I watched all of them not that long ago. There's something quite soothing about the neatly parcelled-out clues coming to light and guessing who dun what. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
I'd say it's more character-driven than your average procedural.

Yeah, we hadn't watched it at the time, but rattled through them all on Netflix and ITV player a few weeks ago. Very likeable.

That's a good point, kinder, about it being more character-driven than similar shows. It's funny because in S1 the few moments where they focus on Cass's personal life felt distracting to the main story, but by S4, I was as invested in her personal life as I was the case!

I've watched 2 episodes of Hollington Drive and it's so awful, it's mildly reminiscent of The Room (the Tommy Wiseau one)

Showtrial is very well put together, particularly if you're into the process side of things. More straightforward but better written than Vigil.
After the execrable Hollington Drive and duuuullll as ditchwater The Long Call it was v welcome.
(I've been burnt twice by trying ITV drama - is the Tower any good, anyone?)

New thread for '22 here

iPlayer 2022 (and All4 etc etc)

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that all the shows that run on iTV in 2021 are nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!