iPlayer 2022 (and All4 etc etc)

caught A BIGGER SPLASH (2015) on iPlayer. Ralph Fiennes perfectly cast as a creep ex-lover record producer, Tilda Swinton as a rock star who’s lost her voice and recuperating in Italy, and a Highsmith-esque atmosphere of curdled boredom and spite thatI found irresistible. incredible acting from Swinton who doesn’t speak above a strangled whisper. Everything is in the face and body and her reactions.

trying with Marie Antoinette but the sympathy one should feel for a 14 yr old effectively sold off to a foreign country is somewhat dissipated by having her be played by an actress who looks like she's at least in her late twenties. the 2 sisters are amusingly wicked stepsisters from cinderella-ish tho.

happy that more4 is showing the 2nd series of Astrid:Murder in Paris this March. really enjoyed the first series.

seems very bold for the new series of Unforgotten to make the replacement for nicola walker's towering character quite so unlikeable through the opening 2 episodes. i am kinda enjoying it though. also the druggie girlfriend character looks almost too on the nose for how i would imagine an addict to look like.

I am enjoying BLACK OPS on the iPlayer very much. Thought FAMALAM was very hit and miss, but with alumni creating both this and RYE LANE in the past 6 months, wonder if may turn out to be the Fast Show/Big Train of the 2020s in terms of being a launchpad to bigger things.

Gallows Pole is pretty fuckin good huh

really enjoyed the book, first episode of the series (which turns out to basically be prequel to the book?) interminable and tough to finish watching... I think i just cant stand Shane Meadows way of using so much improv. so many of the drawn out conversations in this were awful. maybe it gets better for episodes 2+3 ?

I don’t think you will like the rest much better. I loved the drawn out conversations, I thought they were mainly hilarious. it is kind of weird that the plot doesn’t really get going until E2 (of 6) but i lapped it all up I’m afraid. In a way I didn’t even want the proper plot to start. I just wanted to see them simmering in this sour stew of suspicion and secrets and finding refuge from it in bleak laughs. I think i’m responding to the solidity of it, the confidence of it. i like how the music activates all kinds of moods. I like how grimy and dun-colored everything is, how limited everyone’s prospects, the camraderie, the almost wild west vibe of the prostitutes. Michael Socha is fucking elemental, I’d see him in anything on the strength of this. And Sophie McShera is just tremendously fun and a worthy match for him (in every sense)

an enjoying the recently finished Norwegian thing that was on Saturday nights. no cops, no murders (too many affairs but...), just a family and friends dealing with cervical cancer. Afterglow.

Purple Rain
Hell Or High Water
Eastern Promises
The Color Purple
Good Fellas
Do The Right Thing
Weird Science
The Eiger Sanction

not bad

Do The Right Thing
The Eiger Sanction

kind of a "both sides" double bill

just finished Gallows Poll and it looks quality and like they had fun filming it. great titles too.

New Walter presents thing started last night and Beck is back on bbc4

looking forward to new series of My Floating Home

The Change is pretty good!

yeah, talked about it on the comedy thread

Snowfall S6 is on the iplayer now.
6 eps in, and its full on, a definite ramping up of the intensity.
one of the best shows that gets no love.
is this the final season ?

sixth commandment. what a grim story

I've heard it's very good but it's kind of a "why would I want to watch this" for me

it is really good - all the performances are so solid. but yeah can understand that perspective - the story is so depressing

Big Train episode 1 has been on iPlayer for a few weeks now...so where's the rest of it?

it was part of Summer of Sketch, which was 1 episode each of about 20 different things

Naked Video next week, which i had not thought about in years

ascent of man was on bbc4 over the weekend. never seen it before. quite liked the first 2 parts.

I'll allow that Big Train episode was pretty fuckin good

i didn't make it to the end of that Big Train episode. seemed so much slower than i remembered it.

The Shock Of The New on bbc4 tomorrow, classic programme about modern art. not sure I've seen it, but is exactly the kind of thing bbc4 should be showing.

just finished 1980s Oppenheimer which was great but distracting because it was the bloke from law & order. and Captain Blue turned up in one of the episodes.

nice to hear Danish again in the 9pm Saturday slot too

been enjoying 'i claudius' . funny to imagine what it would be like as a prestige drama nowadays.a lot more spectacle, lot more money shown on the screen and much much less people sitting around talking, which is what I enjoy about it. blessed is not as ott as I remembered and I'd somehow forgotten about his "quicker than boiled asparagus"

i watched 'our friends in the north' this week.
never saw it when it aired originally (was busy in 1996 being a new parent),
was posted for a limited time on the iplayer.
gotta love the geordie accent cliches.
but such quibbles aside, i really enjoyed it.
also, i think it's clear that the recent season of 'nora from queens', was the last one.
not the best thing i have seen, but enjoyable.

i have I Claudius recorded and ready to watch. oppenheimer was the same, all people talking in rooms.

London Live is showing Neverwhere, but i don't think they have a catch up service so that's probably better in the freeview boxes thread

Oh, I'd love to see Neverwhere again.

(£4 on DVD from Amazon, or £5 to download from them. i think i have it on vhs somewhere...)

it looks like a children's programme from the 80s in terms of quality (probably because it is). the outside bits, filmed on top of st pancras etc, look particularly cheap, somehow.

been enjoying 'i claudius' . funny to imagine what it would be like as a prestige drama nowadays.a lot more spectacle, lot more money shown on the screen and much much less people sitting around talking

and yet nuch worse direction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roI56_c_E6o

Ha ha watched tgat video only last week. Brilliantly demonstrated tho.

the long shot on bb's face when augustus dies is incredible. george baker is wonderful.

George Baker is, I often think, the best thing in it.

Get Out
Us
Candyman
The Shining
The Omen
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Alien

the 2018 Halloween also on there

and that's the Jordan Peele candyman

Host is also worth a watch - filmed during lockdown with all the people doing their own makeup and effects

rolling like it's 2022...

the 6-part french thing about a team in iraq which has just finished in the BBC4 9pm saurday foreign drama slot was quite compelling, and featured him out of Spiral. Dark Hearts it was called.

Latest bbc effort at reimagining agatha christie was a total dud. It shouldn't be difficult to do , just don't have pretensions that you're making some deep art or something and just give me a bog standard murder mystery instead of boring me.

Mr Bates vs the post office on itvx, quietly enraging. I've read a few articles about the story but haven't followed it particularly closely, I knew there were suicides but it's still a shock how monstrously the post office behaved.

I've been sort of following it for years but it's so huge there are so many details you can't keep track of. I find it jaw-dropping, at every turn, it's the sheer scale of it and I've kind of found it weird that no-one I knew seemed to know or really care about it beyond 'Post Office wrongly accused some people but it was computer bugs'. I would LOVE to hear some first-hand account of what went on a Fujitsu, as well as all the levels of the PO.

As someone who likes reading about scams and how they're enabled this one is the biggest of all.

The thing I hate about TV dramatisations (and I felt the same about The Dropout) was they assume no-one wants to know the boring techy details and just cares about who said what to whom and how it made them feel. But the details are often the maddest bits, and seeing sort-of understandable reactions to, or misunderstandings of, techy details and how that spirals and how people try to justify their perceptions, I find that so interesting.

Computer Weekly has a timeline of all their articles on it for years (scroll to bottom here https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Post-Office-Horizon-scandal-explained-everything-you-need-to-know ) I might get an account just to read through but it might also make me throw my laptop through the window.

Computer Weekly did such a good act of journalism on it all.

My mum recommended this R4 documentary - sheer amount of jaw-dropping detail was her view of it all as well, kinder.

I'll give that a go for sure. yes the itv one was very scant on detail but I didn't really expect anything else - covering 20 odd years in 4 hours did make it seem quite hurried at times though, cutting straight from "there's no money left to carry on fighting the case, we have to settle" to "we won the case!" with no explanation was the biggest eyebrow raiser.

it did a good job! telling a detailed story with humour, the actors were good - I particularly liked Ian Hart.

the other head scratcher for me was when the Union guy met up with the Fujitsu guys showing him the live remote tinkering, then next day the PO "punishing" him - what even was that meeting supposed to be about?!

I'll check out that R4 thing, thanks!

f&ck me, "The Way" was bad.
had high hopes given the various folks involved.
thankfully only 3 episodes.

Tokyo Vice S1/S2 :
yeah, that was worthy.
loved every minute of it.

there's a new thread btw but it's not v busy at the moment. I'm running out of things to watch!

Rolling iPlayer and other UK TV Streaming 2024 and onwards!

(with Inside Sellafield beforehand)

(oops, wrong iplyaer thread, even though i posted in the correct one about 30 seconds ago)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028nyw

Pauline Boty documentary Monday on bbc4
followed by Pop Goes The Easel
and another hour or so about Lee Miller

New (ish) thread

Rolling iPlayer and other UK TV Streaming 2024 and onwards!