Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:34 pm  

Mintball wrote:

I'm not much of a telly person - well, outside sport - but I 'discovered' a show I enjoy a few weeks ago: The Borgias: great fun, without insulting the intelligence.

Been really enjoying it, not taking it too seriously and its encouraged me to find out a bit more about the history too. Excellent performances all round and Sean Harris as Micheletto is particularly good, as are the main characters

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:37 pm  

Chris28 wrote:

Been really enjoying it, not taking it too seriously and its encouraged me to find out a bit more about the history too. Excellent performances all round and Sean Harris as Micheletto is particularly good, as are the main characters

Totally agree.

Never been a Jeremy Irons fan, but isn't he wonderful in this?

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:45 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

Watched the Piper Alpha documentary, Fire In The Night, that I'd recorded from last week.
Very good if not seen.
The survivors interviewed (only 61 out of 228) mainly Jocks and Geordies (industrial gypsies), talked movingly of the nights events about the friends and workmates who never made it through that night.
Admittedly, you'd never be the same again after an event such as that, would you?

Just watched it - another incredible documentary.

There's so much good stuff on the BBC, ITV and Ch4 on demand services that it staggers me to think that the three females in this house are sat in the other room watching Geordie Shore, their brains must be the most under used organs in this house.

Well, there is one more I can think of that never used at all these days...

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:22 am  

Mintball wrote:

Totally agree.

Never been a Jeremy Irons fan, but isn't he wonderful in this?

Absolutely - just the right side of OTT.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:28 am  

On the historical front, I've been enjoying the dramatisation of Phillipa Gregory's books The White Queen. Although i missed it last night, I'm also looking forward to watching Gregory's "The Real White Queen and her Rivals" to get further background into the characters.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:43 am  

cod'ead wrote:

On the historical front, I've been enjoying the dramatisation of Phillipa Gregory's books The White Queen. Although i missed it last night, I'm also looking forward to watching Gregory's "The Real White Queen and her Rivals" to get further background into the characters.

Me too, and the one last night was as good as the drama and filled in a lot of the gaps.

What gets my goat a bit is the moaners, the TV drama train-spotters equivalent, the ones who whine about "historical inaccuracies" because someone is wearing a pair of gloves that look as though they have a press stud in them, or they spot a zip in the back of someones jerkin - FFS just sit back and enjoy an hours entertainment, we all know it wasn't filmed in 1470, its drama, you're supposed to use your imagination a bit.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:54 am  

Chris28 wrote:

Absolutely - just the right side of OTT.

It's that quite delicious school of Brit character acting, whereby villains actually become rather sexy – see anything Alan Rickman does, plus Antony Hopkins in Silence etc. From a non-Brit perspective, Al Pacino has it too.

I first saw Irons on stage at the RSC doing Richard II – I remember finding the character so utterly wimpy and this is so different.

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:56 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

... What gets my goat a bit is the moaners, the TV drama train-spotters equivalent, the ones who whine about "historical inaccuracies" because someone is wearing a pair of gloves that look as though they have a press stud in them, or they spot a zip in the back of someones jerkin - FFS just sit back and enjoy an hours entertainment, we all know it wasn't filmed in 1470, its drama, you're supposed to use your imagination a bit.

Do you mean the sort of pedants who watch an episode of, say, Sharpe and know the regimental costumes are wrong. Or can tell you (without being asked) why the tanks are wrong in any drama set in WWII? That sort of pedant?

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:57 am  

Did anyone else see The Daily Show last night, as it dealt with the Zimmerman verdict and the entire issue of Florida's 'stand your ground' law?

Re: The all-singing, all-dancing TV thread - Part Three : Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:03 am  

Mintball wrote:

Do you mean the sort of pedants who watch an episode of, say, Sharpe and know the regimental costumes are wrong. Or can tell you (without being asked) why the tanks are wrong in any drama set in WWII? That sort of pedant?

I think I'm thinking of the same pedant that you are thinking of

And how do we know that YKK hadn't invented the zip fastener in 1470, they may have had problems with distribution and decided to shut up shop for 500 years until proper roads were built.