iPlayer 2022 (and All4 etc etc)

TOAST is back - and he’s on the BBC?!

All previous series on iPlayer now too

anybody try The Tourist yet?

Yes, enjoyed it although it's a bit uneven. Shades of Fargo but without the self-indulgence, a lot lighter, NB really not sure of the ending but liked that it was hitting that daft/twisty/dramatic spot that I think Killing Eve started off as (KE probably a bit wittier).

My main concerns going in were that 'oh no amnesia' stories tend to dole out little memories at convenient plot points but this didn't really do that.

the trailer reminded me of those aussie dramas that were in the 9pm saturday "foreign" drama slot a while ago. but not enough to make me watch it.

Tower is same old in a good way, don’t like the new theme tune though

Toast not tower

First episode of the Tourist seemed promising, will likely go again.

enjoyed toast. but that's the 4th thing I've seen Robert bathurst in since Christmas. and i didn't even know his name until just then.

I can't remember what the changes to the Toast theme tune were but the titles themselves were shot-for-shot from series 2 of Shadows.

I watched the first episode of Toast (S1) and I felt like an anthropologist from a society which never developed humour. Or like the lex. Is it one of those shows that takes a while to hit its stride?

they've just jazzed the theme up a bit, made it more hollywood, i guess. it's still obviously matt berry though.

i don't remember clem fandango being that hipster glam, or is it that hispter fashion has changed since the last series?

We watched Toast of Tinseltown ep 1 last night without having watched actual Toast of London before, and while it raised a few chuckles, it felt like we were absolutely missing something vital that would make it properly good. Ledge's comment there makes it think it's not just lack of context (am aware of basic premise, Clem Fandango, rivalry with Ray Purchase, that sort of thing)

the new toast is not great. i mean it’s always been hit and miss. best watched while drunk probably.

MAN LIKE MOBEEN on the other hand is pretty much genius all the way through.

(my caveat to toast not being great is that any scene with toast’s agent is solid gold imo)

IMO it’s always been pretty shoddy but gets a few solid laughs every episode, and the cast are super charming

Guest stars mostly naff though

Clem has always been a dressy hipster! Iirc his dress sense gets sillier every season

Agree it’s the sort of thing that clicks as funny or doesn’t (I have the same problem with WWDITS, which always seems like a couple of good Office jokes punctuated by dead air)

will try man like mobeen on your recommendation tracer. what am i in for?

birmingham (england) muslims. joeks bruv innit. you might need to turn on the subtitles! it’s deceptively slight - actually grows into a bit of a force as it goes along. to me the characters as broadly drawn as they are feel very very real

mobeen is so so good.
final season this year i believe.

they're gonna feel very very unreal to me sounds like

Ogmios School of Zen Motoring

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0bf9bqj

i cannot work out from the website if that6's a comedy or a reality show or what?

all of the above my friend

Ogmios on iplayer! Fantastic.

low-key excited for The Curse on C4

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

anybody rate Guilt, from a couple of years ago? i accidentally starting watching about halfway through, no idea what was going on, but it was good

i've been wanting to watch Little Girl for months and had no idea it was on iPlayer????!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000xh73/storyville-petite-fille

Ooh, thanks for the reminder about Guilt. Loved the first series but didn't watch the second series which was on earlier this as it was on the same time as the last series of Shetland and needed to ration my intake of Things With Mark Bonnar In Them.

* this year**

** By which I mean last year

mentioned a few Storyvilles late last year on the documentaries thread (but not that one, although i did watch it). there have been a few more lately, but Olympics is taking up all my watching time (and disc space)

Guilt s1 was good. Watched s2 and wasn't as fussed about it. Pretty watchable though.

https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/introducing-itvx

!

The url had me thinking they'd gone into porn for a second

guess britbox aint getting the numbers then.

Has anyone tried the new BBC series 'Mood' based on Nicole Lecky's Royal Court stage show?

It's received some rave reviews but I only last about 30 minutes as it seemed a bit stereotyped. I may go back to it as I bailed before the main elements were established.

ogmios. disappointed the street parties episode didn't make it to TV but i guess the parameters are different. would he have to get permission?

as it was the scripted bits were mostly fine and the addition of ben zeph in the last one was a nice surprise. and lol at the "car bon" rhyme.

Blade Runner 2049

I'm sure this must have been mentioned here/elsewhere but you gotta watch the 8-part Ken Burns Muhammad Ali doc. It's on iPlayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0bk0f64/muhammad-ali

Wow iPlayer has gone all-in on Halloween

- Drag Me To Hell
- Babadook
- The Omen
- Poltergeist
- Halloween
- Host
- Evil Dead
- Night Of The Living Dead
- Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
- Coraline
- Cat People
- Horror Express
- I Walked With A Zombie

more on over the weekend on proper tv

the exorcist (tonight on bbc2, later one bbc3)

curse of the cat people as well. and ghost stories. and paranorman. Halloween on ch4, it on itv2... lots more

i never used to understand why they didn't do this every year.

oh you mention Halloween on iplayer. but i think that's the remake. ch4 has the original.

Cat People and a bunch of Val Lewton classics have been on the iPlayer forever tbf

The Love Box In Your Living Room is actually a pretty well done send-up of Adam Curtis films - from Enfield and Whitehouse so it’s not JUST that it’s lots of silly gags too. I am quite enjoying it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dk9y

It is a fake history of the BBC

snagged

that was fun - thanks!

Mention of Jeff Rawle on another thread sent me into a youtube wormhole

Admittedly I haven't watched Hollyoaks since the 1990s, but, er, what the George Denting fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Xew-YeLTo

All 4:

Advert for thing i will never buy (car).
Advert for thing i will never eat (burger king).
Advert for thing i will never buy (beach holiday).
4401-NETWORK-FILE ERROR

repeat...

3 times now.

open university, auto trader, 4401

this did work on the PC but turned out to be terrible (rick and Morty apochrypha, done by fans by the look) so I'm putting the above failures down to the stb.

I'm sure it's worked in the past though, the end of the f-ing world, some Walter Presents thing.

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)