What are UKARians watching on TV?

[adam2628]

Watching This Morning in STV (ITV).

I would have kept quiet about that if I were you!

Each to their own.

[Mooshie1956]

Watched Gary Lineker in my Grandads war last night fascinating insight to the slog up Italy and how tough the fight was.

[AlexC]

Watched Gary Lineker in my Grandads war last night fascinating insight to the slog up Italy and how tough the fight was.

I watched that too. I was a bit surprised that they didn't say much about Monte Cassino, or visit the war graves there, but then I assume that his Granddad wasn't involved in that particular battle?

[Big Eric]

Watching This Morning in STV (ITV).

I would have kept quiet about that if I were you!

Each to their own.

Surely this thread is for drawing attention to any programme that could be of the slightest bit of interest to other members?

[timuss]

Just watched the first episode of the Mandalorian very promising.

[tankbuster]

Just finished Catch22. It was better than I expected and the bonus of some nice flying interspersed with the CGI (not too bad CGI)

[Mooshie1956]

Man in the High Castle season 4 starts on Amazon Prime this week end.

[Brevet Cable]

Surely this thread is for drawing attention to any programme that could be of the slightest bit of interest to other members?

Go on, then......

[adam2628]

Watching This Morning in STV (ITV).

I would have kept quiet about that if I were you!

Each to their own.

Surely this thread is for drawing attention to any programme that could be of the slightest bit of interest to other members?

I apologise, I didn't realise that you were the official forum spokesperson on the likes and interests of every other person on here

[CJS]

I haven't watched His Dark Materials yet...convince me one way or the other please

[iainpeden]

I haven't watched His Dark Materials yet...convince me one way or the other please

I'm in two minds over this one. I haven't read the books so can't say if it follows the text or not; however, it is beautifully shot, well acted and I am looking forward to the next episode (and especially the armoured bears). However, I'm not sure if come the end of the serial I'm going to be thinking "wow" or "hmm".

I have the same feeling about "The War of the Worlds."

[Mooshie1956]

I haven't watched His Dark Materials yet...convince me one way or the other please

Just watch The Golden Compass, it's only 2 hours long that way

[AlexC]

I haven't watched His Dark Materials yet...convince me one way or the other please

I started to watch the first part but soon gave up, talking animals etc. bit too much for me.

[tankbuster]

Unusually for me I gave up on War of the Worlds within half an hour. Got off to a bad start with an out of period GWR steam loco supposedly between Woking and London. To make matters worse, if the scene hadn't been present it wouldn't have mattered. That was followed by cardboard acting and a terrible script.

[tankbuster]

I haven't watched His Dark Materials yet...convince me one way or the other please

It's better than the film but just about everything is.

[jingernut]

Unusually for me I gave up on War of the Worlds within half an hour. Got off to a bad start with an out of period GWR steam loco supposedly between Woking and London. To make matters worse, if the scene hadn't been present it wouldn't have mattered. That was followed by cardboard acting and a terrible script.

Watching a show about aliens attacking earth and you get the hump about them using the wrong steam loco

[Brevet Cable]

Sidles in....
Glances around furtively....
Quietly mutters 'Nurse Jackie'
Slinks back out again....
Anticipates howls of derision....

[Brevet Cable]

Unusually for me I gave up on War of the Worlds within half an hour. Got off to a bad start with an out of period GWR steam loco supposedly between Woking and London. To make matters worse, if the scene hadn't been present it wouldn't have mattered. That was followed by cardboard acting and a terrible script.

Worse than that, if what I've read & heard elsewhere is accurate....not only has there been the obligatory revisionist rewrite to reflect what are supposed to be current social mores ( and to change the main protagonist's gender ) they've also omitted the HMS Thunder Child incident ( as usual for WotW adaptations )
And Gatling guns instead of Maxims!

[MiG_Eater]

I haven't seen the new WotW adaptation and in many ways I just don't want to. It's one of my favourite books, it it really seems that every time an adaptation is made they utterly fail to capture the wonderful 'feel' of the book.

I guess some things are just perfect first time round.

[AlexC]

Unusually for me I gave up on War of the Worlds within half an hour.

I'm sticking with it, at least for the time being, always been a fan of H. G. Wells, and there's something that I like about SF set in the Victorian era, such as this and The Time Machine for example.

[Brevet Cable]

One of the reviews I heard effectively described it as 'Like a Jodie Whittaker episode of Dr Who...only worse'

Ironically, the closest film/TV adaptation to the book was an otherwise naff film made by Pendragon back in 2005, called 'The War of the Worlds -The War To End All Wars'
It's pretty much a reading-out of the book, accompanied by the occasional 'live' scene & plenty of CGI/cartoon stills/clips.
( And being a sad git, I've got a DVD copy of it )

At least the modern-era set Anglo-French series made recently makes no pretence at following the book, it's only similarity being the title.

Guess people will have to wait a lot longer for a proper true-to-source adaptation.

[Euan Buchan]

BBC's River City

[iainpeden]

Channel hoping between Corbyn v Johnson and the Wales match

[Finningley Boy]

Corbyn in the red corner and Johnson in the blue corner!

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[Finningley Boy]

Channel hoping between Corbyn v Johnson and the Wales match

And what is it you're hoping for?

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