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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #425 on: June 20, 2025, 08:54:06 AM »
Just watched the first five minutes of 'Death Valley', an alleged comedy-detective series. I won't be watching the rest of it. What a load of infantile rubbish!

I agree, I gave it about 10 minutes and then removed it from our iPlayer.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #426 on: June 20, 2025, 09:16:08 AM »
I know what you mean.  The presenter with his 'funny' faces and the background music doesn't help.  That's entertainment, I guess.

A bit late here, but try the podcast - I find it a lot more interesting - and while yo're at it, the BBC podcast "The witch farm" is absorbing and disturbing.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #427 on: June 20, 2025, 09:38:34 AM »
Just watched the first five minutes of 'Death Valley', an alleged comedy-detective series. I won't be watching the rest of it. What a load of infantile rubbish!

TBH I had this reaction to begin with but I decided to give it a second chance when I couldn't think what else to watch, and it's grown on me. If you don't like silly murder mysteries (Death in Paradise, Midsomer Murders, Brokenwood Mysteries, etc.) then you'll never like, but if you do, it gets better.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #428 on: June 22, 2025, 03:11:38 PM »
Just started watching 'The Thick of It' on Iplayer but I may give up on it. It was a brilliant series in many ways, but I CANNOT STAND fake fly-on-the-wall docs with out-of-focus and wobbly camera shots, and ttoi overdoes  them like hell.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #429 on: June 22, 2025, 03:52:16 PM »
Just started watching 'The Thick of It' on Iplayer but I may give up on it. It was a brilliant series in many ways, but I CANNOT STAND fake fly-on-the-wall docs with out-of-focus and wobbly camera shots, and ttoi overdoes  them like hell.

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #430 on: June 27, 2025, 01:06:09 PM »
Watching War Walks and enjoying it, though the first series could be called muddy fields in Northern France and Belgium

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00snyg6/war-walks

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #431 on: July 02, 2025, 08:28:31 PM »
Just watched the first five minutes of 'Death Valley', an alleged comedy-detective series. I won't be watching the rest of it. What a load of infantile rubbish!
I gave it another chance later, and watched the rest of the first episode, and later the next four episode. It's not bad, actually. the mannered goofiness of the female Detective Sergeant who is one of the main characters is a bit annoying, but on the whole, ts pleasant, undemanding telly.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #432 on: July 02, 2025, 09:58:56 PM »

Watching Bodkin on Netflix, pleasantly odd, good swearing

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #433 on: July 03, 2025, 08:15:13 PM »
Shakespeare and Hathaway, with Mark Benton and Jo Joyner as unlikelily-named private detectives. Just watched the first episode - for the first time, though t's a few years old. Good enough to continue with.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #434 on: July 04, 2025, 08:58:52 AM »
Shakespeare and Hathaway, with Mark Benton and Jo Joyner as unlikelily-named private detectives. Just watched the first episode - for the first time, though t's a few years old. Good enough to continue with.

I watched Shakespeare and Hathaway some years ago, it was better than I thought it would be.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #435 on: July 08, 2025, 07:11:29 PM »
I watched some episodes a couple of years ago and didn't dislike them.

I noted that some of the locations supposed to be in Stratford-upon-Avon (which is not far from where I live) are actually in Warwick.
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