You were right to expect a lot more Eugene,in my opinion, and 'thrown out with the bath water' really  sums it up well for me.

I think the characters in the adaptation were far more shallow and ill defined, hence why I found it rushed,and I didn't like the airy fairy nightmare sequences, they seemed to be shoehorned in as a convenient mechanism to explain far too much that had been left out.

 

All in very disappointing production only relieved by Julia MacKenzie's grasp and portrayal of her character,I also thought the young actor playing Krystal and the lad playing Andrew were excellent.

 

Is there owt on toneet?

 

 

 

I have enjoyed Storyville from time to time - must check it out.

I've just watched it... and I've just seen an article where JK Rowling is gushing about what a great job they did.   She must have been paid well.     It was almost unrecognisable and not in a good way.    So much left out (Kaye's bf, Gavin and his thing for Mary, Sukhvinder's bullying and self harming, Samantha and Andrew..) and a completely different ending.  What a load of tosh.   I haven't been so let down by an adaptation since Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

Indian Summers is quite good. Took a while to take Julie Walters seriously in it though. She looks very like she did in the waitress "Two Soups" sketch... very distracting 

 

Also really enjoying The Walking Dead - been racing through it and am on S.3 already. 

I've just started watching this on the catch-up thing.  Enjoying it so far. 

 

 

Pompidou - The product of someone who has had success and been given carte blanche to produce any old crap.

 

Not your finest hour Mr Lucas.

 

im not sure about this painting thing on BBC1

 

its a bit odd

 

and im not sure i could take advice from a bloke dressed as dennis the menace

 

 

I'm just watching it and think the whole programme is dripping in post Etruscan irony with a soupçon of 21st century gladiatorial voyeurism. 

 

 

I must admit to having a small chuckle at the dog reading "Memoirs of a Cavelier" by Spaniel Defoe, though...

i was thinking the same thing

 

(i wasnt)

 

That would have been funny, but I turned over before that. I switched off just after the butler fainted. 

 

I am recording the new version of Poldark ( BBC1 @9 ) ....but doubt if it can match the original ...which I loved  

 

A lot is being made of his chestage area. 

 

 

Oooo I look forward to that then  

 

Just watching a documentary on wolves in Canada.

 

Was snowy now moving into spring.

 

 

Here you go Baz. 

 

 

He's ok ....but like I say it will have to some to beat the 1970s version  

Heads-up:

Only Connect Comic Relief Special - BBC2, 8.30pm Monday.

Katie Derham, Steve Jones and Steve Pemberton vs Tom Holland, Patrick Marber and Reeta Chakrabarti.

 

 

Victoria Coren-Mitchell AND Katie Derham in one show!!  

 

*sets reminder*

 

Is Poldark any good? I'm waiting for reviews before taking the plunge 

Especially as that Banished on BBC2 last week was bleedin' awful  

I tried to watch it yesterday.  I think I lasted less than 2 minutes.  It was awful & from what I did see, very Mr Bean. 

Well... Let's not forget that there are a lot of people who really love Mr Bean.

FWIW, I thought the first episode was a lot funnier, with some very clever gags. However, Sunday's episode was a disappointment, IMO.

 

Oh hell.  I was hoping it might be a go-er  

You could give it a go Cosi  Within about 15 mins I decided it was too sh*te to bother with. Mind you I didn't take to Downton either. What do I know ?

 

I was relying on it instead of going with Poldark... which I don't fancy at all.

I'll give it a go, but I'll probably end up deleting the series record like I did for Fortitude, Indian Summer and goodness knows how many others 

I've been spoilt by Wolf Hall!

Cosi me too! 

Indian Summers is allright, still sticking with it  

I wasn't criticising Mr Bean as such, what I meant was it had already been done.

I gave up on Indian Summers  during the second episode, but then I saw a trailer and gave it another go on catch up and got in to it again!    I'm quite liking it now.

 

I've got Banished recorded - haven't seen it, also got Poldark on series link and have heard nothing but raving about it since Sunday, so I'll give that a go too.

 

 

Ta Kaffs reckon I'll give Poldark go. Indian Summers is a bit hard to categorize... its like a big budget, slow moving soap opera. I missed the second episode but happily continued with it none the wiser  They go over the plot points again and again anyway  

Quote from the lead actor Aidan Turner “I wasn't allowed any Cornish pasties because I'd get fat and I have to take my top off so much.”  

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/a...opless-10097683.html

I think Indian Summers is a slow boiler ....I've recorded Poldark and Banished but not watched them yet .....and am really missing Wolf Hall

10,000 BC finished yesterday. It was interesting - and more of a genuine scientific experiment than I'd expected, for C5 .

 

They're auditioning for a second series if anyone fancies a miserable two months  On the plus side you will lose a lot of weight !

 Lost as in misplaced him or dead? 

New Series of Great Canal Journeys with Pru Scales and Timothy West started tonight on Ch4.  I've recorded it.  It's a nice programme and quite poignant watching them cope with Pru's debilitating illness.  Lovely scenery too.

 

http://www.channel4.com/progra...urneys/episode-guide

 

 

I'm looking forward to Ordinary Lies.     I like a lot of the cast and the idea of all the storylines intertwining.  (I expect some will be put off by the fact that one of the characters is played by Michelle thingy - Tina from Corrie though (from what I see on the trailers, she's playing pretty much the same character too)

Mrs Jer is still bedridden but I remembered to record "Raised by Wolves" no idea what it will be like-we've been big fans of Caitlin Moran for years. But these things don't always work on the tellybox and could end up as a car crash! (See also House of Fools)

As soon as I saw that House of Fools was Mortimer and Reeves I decided to give it a miss.

DOCUMENTARY: Back in Time for Dinner

Channel: BBC 2

Date: Tuesday 17th March 2015

Time: 20:00 to 21:00

Duration: 1 hour'

 

1950s. Episode 1. 

Historical cooking show. One British family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover how a post-war revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live. In this first episode, they travel back to 1950 - so it's goodbye open-plan living, hello formal dining room and basic kitchen. Guided by presenter Giles Coren, food historian Polly Russell and the National Food Survey (a 50-year collection of food diaries), the family can only consume the food of the period - cue a diet of dried eggs, national bread, dripping and liver. And taking on the roles of the period, mum is doing all the cooking, while dad relaxes with a pipe and slippers. The family mood is lightened by the end of rationing in 1954, heralding the consumer boom of the late 50s - Mary Berry sells them an electric oven on hire purchase (a job she actually used to do in the 1950s!) and mum discovers that, with all the new food, fads and gadgets on offer, cooking gets a lot more complicated.

 

Copyright GipsyMedia Ltd.

 

 

Sounds worth a go.

Just switched that on Fluffers - looks interesting!