Last television show you watched

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Was glad to see Robert (the hipster twat marketing manager) go, Hilly. He was like something Charlie Brooker would've put in Nathan Barley.  

Ditto. Hearing about these hipsters on Radio 2 today, drove me nuts. I couldn't stand his "I don't want to reach 40 on a 50,000 a year salary..." Lor' I'd kill for that salary right now (or by 40). I know by nature it's the show, but a bunch of infuriating people mostly on the blokes side like that Dan who thinks he's God's gift to sales. The women have that blonde who must think Mad Men is a documentary.

Nawh, I am plugging with Rockford Files daily via the Beeb. More my pace I reckon

Shoreditch sounds like a cuntery-filled hellhole, tbh.

Watching Craig Ferguson's final episode of The Late Late Show as I type this. I was never a big late night TV person until he came on the air. I watched his first episode and have been a fan since. It's quite a shame.

He made late night TV interesting. Late night is a tired format. It's the same now virtually as it was when it started. Craig shook it up. He did things differently. He changed the mold. And it made for much more exciting viewing.

Too bad other late night shows keep doing the same old tired thing.

Hoping his future endeavors are equally as successful.

Poor Geoff Peterson and Secretariat though.

I caught part of "Person of Interest" the other night, and I found it interesting if somewhat difficult to follow as it was mid-storyline and I didn't know any of the characters or concepts.

Is it worth investing my time in, or should I give it a miss?

When does SUITS return?

I've been plowing through Portlandia. Love it.

Al Murray's Great British Spy Movies

done the same way as his war film programme, this one does have the bonus of more or less having all music done by John Barry. Naturally, mostly Bond but also Quiller and one track that I think is Follow, Follow but I'm likely wide of the mark.
What a plonker Matt Ford is, comedian? No.

^Enjoyed that myself, too ... fascinating to hear Stella Rimmington's input, seeing as how she's actually lived it.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

^Enjoyed that myself, too ... fascinating to hear Stella Rimmington's input, seeing as how she's actually lived it.

Indeed, kind of not a Bond fan from the looks of it, ha. Liking Moore on the basis of the fact he was tongue in cheek and not a proper spy :)

Would've been decent to have Le Carre on it as well. Not only having worked in SIS but also having had some of his books turned into films. "Oh, yes...well Tinker had its perks".

Le Carre's stuff strikes me as being how it actually is, whereas Bond is how we wish it actually was.

Indeed, I think one of the better examples or an example at any rate, is Tailor of Panama.

Both worlds 'met' in an intriguing way with Brosnan in the movie. Quite a ballsy choice of part for the then-current 007, I think.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Both worlds 'met' in an intriguing way with Brosnan in the movie. Quite a ballsy choice of part for the then-current 007, I think.

Agreed, it was almost like Brozzers was off a leash. If only he played Bond like that even for a scene. Ah well, what might have been :)

By the bye, always forget that an incredibly young Daniel Radcliffe is in it or Brendan Gleeson for that matter and that Geoffrey Rush is on such fine form.

Some of what Brosnan expressed a desire to do with Bond (acknowledging that he maybe 'leans on' the women and alcohol a little too heavily to cope with the job's pressures and being brought in from the field due to a possible psychological problem) seems to be very much where they've gone with Craig.

well, slightly different fare this weekend gone:

the new Foyle's War (Peace)

initially I wasn't keen on him continuing post-war but it's not so bad. A pleasant part was John Mahoney from Frasier being in it. In spite of him being British born I don't think he's done much this side of the pond.
Bond-wise, the Swiss chap from Casino Royale ("What, no chocolates?") appears and there overall remains the underrated Michael Kitchen. Unique acting talent which was on show in the recent Brian Pern: A Life in Rock

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I actually agree with you Ambler. I loved the first few seasons but after a while it got a bit boring.
There isn't a really a convincing character trajectory in there either (at least not at the point I gave up on the show). I believe I made it through the first two seasons in their entirety.

I've never watched it unfortunately. Don't know if I will at some point. Though more likely to watch it than Game of Thrones, say.

Erica Ambler wrote:

Californication S6

Have a hate-fuck relationship with this show. Occasionally very funny, but the idea of a 40+ guy routinely fucking girls half his age is just disgusting. I remember discussing this in bed with Fae a while back.

Talk has surfaced today of Duchovny returning to his best-known role ... a new series of the X-Files is apparently something Fox are keen on.

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thanks for the heads up Ambler. I remember watching some of it when it was re-shown in 2005. Utterly spinetingling, I think. Seeing people stand there, mostly quiet, the coffin, "I Vow to Thee My Country" in St. Paul's and then the cranes dipping.

Watched Martin Gilbert's Churchill series and the final episode with Churchill reading from Longfellow over footage of the barge heading upriver was moving:

"In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright!"

it was the end really, that Churchill delivered so savagely and passionately.

On that note, I've been re-reading Jenkins' Churchill biographt this week. Oh for a Winston now.

Hilly KCMG wrote:

thanks for the heads up Ambler. I remember watching some of it when it was re-shown in 2005. Utterly spinetingling, I think. Seeing people stand there, mostly quiet, the coffin, "I Vow to Thee My Country" in St. Paul's and then the cranes dipping.

You mean people weren't taking selfies with the coffin?

That's one pleasure we're yet to have. Maybe when Blair pops his clogs.

Hilly KCMG wrote:

That's one pleasure we're yet to have. Maybe when Blair pops his clogs.

I confess I was always hoping Blair would be buried before he popped his clogs!