Rolling iPlayer and All 4 and iTVPlayer 2017-2018

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!

same

Made the mistake of watching both parts when I was tired, so started falling asleep at the very end unfortunately (think I caught all the main points), but that's because it was so gripping I wanted to watch part 2 straight after p1. So many questions! That James guy just bowling up and no-one really asking anything!

bbc four is showing scandi-drama The Bridge (series 3) two episodes at a time on saturday nights which is a good excuse the rewatch them all - it's probably my favourite of the lot (just above the wallanders)

(not to be confused with The Bridge on ch4 on sunday nights)

I just watched all 3 seasons! I missed it the first time round. When I was falling asleep watching The Mole I think I was getting slightly confused having watched more Danes in the Bridge the night before.
S3 is ridiculous, nonsensical and dumb compared to the prev 2 series but it's a wild ride and if they show s4 I'll be watching that too.

(i'm about to start series 2 - the pvr didn't pick up the first two episodes because the second series had a different series id to series 1 and i didn't notice they weren't going to record until they didn't)

The Mole is fantastic

It was... quite good? not super gripping. "The Mole now had a plan. To follow Alejandro and see where it lead... On his return to Spain Alejandro was arrested" was an (unintentional?) lol. The villagers who'd been told they were getting a hospital running out and cheering was pretty depressing.

that bit and lots of other bits just made me feel sick. like, i now assume this sort of casual horror is just happening all the time, far away

yes absolutely.

I watched all of 4-part political thriller "Roadkill" but didn't find it very thrilling, despite an interesting start.

I loved the first two episodes! Does it just not follow through? I suppose I'll watch part three this weekend.

idk, by the end it felt like each character had said a lot of things but not done a lot... but then it's not like nothing dramatic happened so it's probably just me watching late at night when I need to go to sleep!

tbf, that is my viewing method for that show as well...

iPlayer now features all of Sorry I've Got No Head. You're welcome.

Just finished Bridge III during the week, will wait for series 4 to finish before starting it.

This weekend has been DNA which did a great thing in that there were two threads going through it but the two threads were 4 years apart which you only found out in episode 5 when she phoned the police.

Next up, something from Walter Presents and then the Valhalla thing that's currently on bbc4 Saturdays.

Also, witch, witch, witch!

Ha, just started Bridge s4, then will start DNA. Anyone watched Industry? I've not seen anything about it except the iPlayer blurb.

only seen the first two. the characters are predictably loathsome, but also really boring, except maybe harper. don't think i'll bother with the rest.

god help me i watched all 6 episodes of french series 'fear at the lake' on all4 mainly in disbelief at the combination of unbelievable coincidences and unfathomable decision making throughout. truly incredible stuff.