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The BBC Four Thread

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    #242
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Smiley's People the follow up to "Tinker Tailor..." starts at 10 PM tonight
    Former British intelligence officer George Smiley is called out of retirement to investigate the death of an agent who used to be one of his sources. Thriller sequel to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, adapted from John le Carre's novel, and starring Alec Guinness. First broadcast in 1982


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    #243
    lockman
    Registered Users Posts: 550 ✭✭✭lockman


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Spiral is back next week.

    Bumping this. Spiral, season 5, starts at 21.00 tonight.

    Been looking forward to this for a bit and am keen to find out what Laure, Pierre, Gilou et al. have been up to.


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    #244
    evilivor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭evilivor


    lockman wrote: »
    Bumping this. Spiral, season 5, starts at 21.00 tonight.

    Been looking forward to this for a bit and am keen to find out what Laure, Pierre, Gilou et al. have been up to.

    It's going to bit weird in the light of the reality of what Le Flic have had to face this week.


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    #245
    brian_t
    Registered Users Posts: 6,667 ✭✭✭brian_t


    For anyone who enjoyed last Thursdays film Headhunters from the novel by Joe Nesbo.

    Jackpot is on tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10pm



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    #246
    brian_t
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    The new comedy Asylum starts next Monday at 9.00 pm followed by the second series of Bob Servant Independent.
    Satirical comedy in which a whistleblower and an internet pirate are trapped together under the threat of extradition in the London embassy of a fictional Latin American country.
    After a year in the El Rican embassy Dan is bored, depressed and has no hope of getting out - his only chance is to push his case in an interview with the Guardian.
    The embassy staff are struggling to attract people to the annual embassy ball, as Dan is old news and nobody wants to come.
    Rafael decides to offer sanctuary to another international fugitive, a childlike, internet pirate called Ludo Backslash.



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    #247
    Harry Palmr
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    Looking forward to that.

    Smilies People has been a terrific watch, so little "happens" so slowly and yet its completely absorbing


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    #248
    Harry Palmr
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    bump for this (can't recall if I've seen Bob Servant already on BBC Scotland - brain's going)


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    #249
    Harry Palmr
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    Slow enough start for both comedies but gradually they revealed their chops.


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    #250
    Skid X
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    Maybe Asylum would have worked better as a longer one off programme than a series. It had some good moments but its hard to see how it will avoid repeating the same jokes.

    I liked Bob Servant, I don't remember seeing it before. Brian Cox (the real one) is always good. He pops up in a huge amount of TV and Film and he rarely puts a foot wrong.


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    #251
    brian_t
    Registered Users Posts: 6,667 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Hostages (the original Israeli version) starts on BBC4 on Saturday 21st February (replacing Spiral).

    Looking forward to it - BBC4 have been sitting on this series for over a year now.


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    #252
    taibhse1966
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    Hi all - could anyone tell me where I could watch back season 5 of Spiral/Engrenages - the bbc player only goes back to episode 4. Thanks in advance!


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    #253
    Harry Palmr
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    Very good Storyville film just on about the infamous 1972 Brooklyn Chase Manhattan Bank
    robbery which was dramatised as Dog Day Afternoon. Slightly surprised BBC Four didn't tie the film in. Anyway it shows just how complex and messy the life of the main protagonist was. Not sure if its repeated but worth checking to see.


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    #254
    brian_t
    Registered Users Posts: 6,667 ✭✭✭brian_t


    I think all of the Storyville films are worth a watch but they are not being repeated at the moment.

    Next Sunday has Love Is All: 100 Years of Love & Courtship
    An archive trip through the universal theme of love, set to a soundtrack by Richard Hawley.

    The following Sunday (March 1st) has The Great European Disaster Movie
    an artfully constructed depiction of how Europe is sleepwalking toward disaster

    and Monday March 2nd has The 1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud: Full Exposure
    the biggest scandal in Japanese corporate history


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    #255
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Anyone else following Hostages on BBC Four?

    Very good so far - but next week its a triple bill! /mops brow


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    #256
    Harry Palmr
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    One to watch with Aunties future once again being discussed freely

    Sunday 8 PM
    Royal Television Society Lecture
    Public Service Broadcasting: A House of Cards?

    Lord Dobbs of Wylye examines the UK's tradition of public service broadcasting.
    View Programme information

    Tuesday 9 PM
    Sex, Lies and Love Bites: The Agony Aunt Story
    Documentary about the problem page's enduring appeal, presented by Philippa Perry.
    View Programme information

    New three part "seed" comedy

    Wednesday 10 PM
    In and Out of the Kitchen

    1 of 3 The Diet
    Cookery writer Damien Trench has all the ingredients for a perfect life. He lives in a delightful house in a nice part of London with his committed partner Anthony, and between writing cookery books, 'keeping house', and monitoring the work being carried out by his builder, Mr Mullaney, he barely has time to fit in anything else. He certainly hasn't time to give any thought to writing a column for a supermarket, Waitsbury's, that his agent Iain Frobisher is keen for him to do, especially as it's the builder's birthday coming up, and of course, he has to bake him a cake.

    But when Anthony takes up a new diet - a twist on the 'cabbage soup' diet, involving copious quantities of courgettes - Damien is piqued into taking the Waitsbury's job to rail against fad diets, and his world starts to collapse like a slowly cooling souffle.


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    #257
    FloatingVoter
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    ^ I'm reading Armchair Nation at the moment. Only on the early history but laughing out loud at moments. Will definitely be tuning in.

    btw. Harry Selfridge was instrumental in turning John Logie Baird's science experiment into a publicity stunt and thus a national phenomenon.


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    #258
    Mr.Nice Guy
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    Not sure if it was a Storyville documentary or not but there was a very good programme on last night about two Chinese girls that were adopted by families, one of which was American and the other Norwegian. Anyone see it?

    I had a lot of respect for the way the families have tried to keep the sisters in contact with each other. Seemed like great people.


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    #259
    Harry Palmr
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    Didn't see that - the controversial and currently banned in India doc about that dreadful gang rape is currently on and repeated later


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    #260
    evilivor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭evilivor


    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    Not sure if it was a Storyville documentary or not but there was a very good programme on last night about two Chinese girls that were adopted by families, one of which was American and the other Norwegian. Anyone see it?

    I had a lot of respect for the way the families have tried to keep the sisters in contact with each other. Seemed like great people.

    It was "Twin Sisters: A World Apart".


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    #261
    fryup
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    aren't culture club a bunch of drama queens


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    #262
    Patty O Furniture
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Didn't see that - the controversial and currently banned in India doc about that dreadful gang rape is currently on and repeated later

    It's actually on Youtube, as the director of that show was on Ray D'arcy on Thurs & Ray told her i saw it during lunchtime on youtube to see what it was like, much to yer wan's disgust & horror as she said it could be only seen in UK, as it could be seen worldwide, as it was banned in India!


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    #263
    Harry Palmr
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    New on tonight a 90 minute documentary about spy George Blake 9PM


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    #264
    evilivor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭evilivor


    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    Not sure if it was a Storyville documentary or not but there was a very good programme on last night about two Chinese girls that were adopted by families, one of which was American and the other Norwegian. Anyone see it?

    I had a lot of respect for the way the families have tried to keep the sisters in contact with each other. Seemed like great people.

    That Twin Sisters doc is on BBC4 again Sunday coming at 8pm.


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    #265
    Tazzer
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭Tazzer


    evilivor wrote: »
    That Twin Sisters doc is on BBC4 again Sunday coming at 8pm.

    great, thanks evilivor, Ive wanted to see this.
    Starts at 7pm on my planner.


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    #266
    evilivor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭evilivor


    Tazzer wrote: »
    great, thanks evilivor, Ive wanted to see this.
    Starts at 7pm on my planner.

    Clocks go forward next Saturday night/Sunday morning.


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    #267
    Tazzer
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭Tazzer


    evilivor wrote: »
    Clocks go forward next Saturday night/Sunday morning.

    Ah! never even dawned on me :-)


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    #268
    Harry Palmr
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    New quiz starts tonight - it almost suggests self parody - The Quizeum with Griff Rhys Jones at 8.30

    followed by a new Michael Mosley self infliction medical programme about blood.


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    #269
    alaimacerc
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    followed by a new Michael Mosley self infliction medical programme about blood.

    Self infliction? He been selling himself for medical experiments again, then? (Have this on disk, now wondering if maybe not to be watched over a midnight snack...)


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    #270
    Dozen Wicked Words
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    Didn't think much to the quizeum tbh wouldn't bother with it again. Can only take so much smugness in a TV programme.

    I liked The Telegraph reviews summary :

    "I felt like I was eavesdropping at an intellectual dinner party."

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11495104/The-Quizeum-BBC-Four-reivew-deflating.html


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    #271
    evilivor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭evilivor


    alaimacerc wrote: »
    Self infliction? He been selling himself for medical experiments again, then? (Have this on disk, now wondering if maybe not to be watched over a midnight snack...)

    Well if watching someone eat a blood sausage made with their own blood is not your thing, I'd hold off.

    Interesting documentary though.


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