even Death in Paradise has one, except with a reggae band (Jonathan Creek's is, of course, a prog band)
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
just tried watching an ep of this on Youtube (Counter Culture Blues) and couldn't make it past 5 minutes!
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
these shows are so satisfying, our relatable quotidian becomes exceptional in the context of a murder investigation
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
brb writing a MARPLE script that finally ties these unsolved crimes together: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainers_who_died_during_a_performance
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
Suzi Quatro was on Midsomer Murders?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
You bet! And yr otm about how satisyfing these shows are, though Death in Paradise is an outlier I can't watch for some reason. I will cop to having seen more Father Brown episodes than I'd like to admit though :-/
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
it probably doesn't help that I know how appalling his sidekick is before I've been drawn into it.
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
^^ similarly, learning Ali Carter is a Farage retweeter and stan ruined watching him play the Masters last week.
I've vowed to not look up the p0litics of English actors any longer.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
Pro tip: they're all Tories
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
morse is best because my grandpa looked just like john thaw
that's it, lock thread
― international sword swallower, producer and creative director (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
xp I know Neil Dudgeon id's openly as Labour (but don't ask me what brand/melt/spice/etc)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
my favorite character in Morse and Lewis is Oxford
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
also tory iirc
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
but Mary Beard
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
the ep of Lewis where one of the members of an ageing 60s rock group is electrocuted on-stage
Is this the one with Joanna Lumley as a mysterious rock chick?
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
a mysterious rock chick's twin
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
Spoiler alert, mark.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
yeah some of us have only seen that episode 5-7 times
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
LOL:
Alexander Woollcott suffered a heart attack during a radio show in which he and four other individuals were having a discussion about Hitler. Listeners were oblivious to the fact that anything was out of the ordinary. Several of them reported that Woollcott, known for being strongly opinionated, was unusually quiet.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
^^^this story is rather less bathetically recounted in thurber's "the years with ross"
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
Waking the Dead and Midsomer Murder both had elder Foxes guest star. I can ever remember which one is Laurence’s dad.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
I am laughing a bit about his complaints about 1917 because he was in a WW1 movie about a haunted trench. Are ghosts historically accurate???
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
my complaints about 1917 is that it is another bad sentimental bullshit war movie by a dreadful director. But yeah, what a prize pumper for saying that!
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
it's not like a member of the Fox family to go nuts
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
This made me laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0XnLs7DSc
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 January 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link
The Greek ep of Morse is so good, he hits some special notes of obnoxiousness, also I want to read The Magus for the first time in 30+ years
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 February 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
tfw you settle down for a nice long maigret and it's just mr bean w/a sour puss >:(
― mark s, Monday, 17 February 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
The Greek ep is one of my faves
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 February 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
I quite like Atkinson as Maigret tbh
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
i'm still watching
(tho given the topic of this thread that is no index of quality)
― mark s, Monday, 17 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
I'm a discerning viewer I'll have you know
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
lol im not
― mark s, Monday, 17 February 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
"Is there a butler?""Haven't seen one sir.""Pity. It might have saved us a lot of time."
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
i just watched an entire ep of father brown -- lol it was extremely terrible
(not a gkc story for a start but even so)
― mark s, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
The Father Browns are really wrong as far as the stories are concerned, they might as well have just called it something else.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 February 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
Maths geek listening to Muse ergo clearly deserves to die
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
Lol Peggy Mount in two minute nun cameo
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 August 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
God Morse is a sex pest
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 11:51 (three years ago) link
Still getting handsy with the only surviving criminal
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
You should try the Elmore Leonard novel where the hero hits on his girlfriend outside the rape clinic
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
The unemployment rate amongst posh elfin actresses must have shot up when they stopped making Lewis
― A bot scamping on a human face, forever (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:30 (three years ago) link
lol true
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
I don't know, I have Britbox and there are roughly 5,000 murder mysteries on there packed with posh elfins and hapless dad bods
― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
i love Endeavour (esp w mustache) & enjoy Lewis (though Hathaway holds most of the appeal there)... is it weird i’ve never watched Morse? mum used to watch, feel like i absorbed it vicariously i am v fucked off that britbox & acorn stole allmost of the brit detective shows off Primewent to do a rewatch of Cracker but it was the bloody American remake! /vomit emoji
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link
i am v fucked off that britbox & acorn stole most of the brit detective shows off Prime
take it to the JiC thread
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
shush
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
truly this thread was my "horror cannot be set in space" lol
also i see that wikipedia have deleted the list of the name of midsomer villages, which is like the burning of the library of alexandria x one trillion
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
Ffs the librarians that burn their own holdings
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:57 (three years ago) link
i love Endeavour (esp w mustache) & enjoy Lewis (though Hathaway holds most of the appeal there)..
Probably best not to read about the subsequent exploits of the actor who played Hathaway then. Could never stand him myself.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link
Hathaway and shite
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link
hitchcock: "actors are cattle"you, aghast: "hitchcock is cancelled!" actors: "hold my beer"
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link