Favourite TV Series

I think you explain precisely why they did it as they did. It was for that experience, which is how many people do experience it IRL.

 

Jury Duty, which is free to watch on Amazon Prime, is a low-key treat. It’s mocumentary style examination of a US jury, all fake, except for one unwitting participant.

I had doubts about that format, but it is funny and heart warming, with its earnest and unwitting hero aided by a terrific cast.

 

Yeah and that’s fair enough, I felt a lack of closure and it just seemed so kind of underplayed for such a big event, but as you say that was probably the intention, and therefore it succeeded perfectly. It was brave to do it that way given it was in theory the biggest event of the whole series.

 

Someone else highlighted this further up, I really enjoyed it and it reminded me a bit of a real version of the American office, which is a compliment.

 

Was brilliant.

 

Time to remember Parkinson with all those wonderful interviews.

We will all have our favourites.

For me with Sellers stands out but in those days film stars were that,Jimmy Stewart,Lauren Bacall, Shirley McClaine,Miss Piggy!

A proper journalist who let the guest speak.

RIP Michael.

 

Excellent Saturday night fare, right after MotD (when that was good too).

 

Shirley Rod Hull and Emu?

 

Olliver Reed and Freddy Star

 

I remember Reed I don't recall Freddy but so many memories.
Bound to be a repeat on one of the BBC channels.

 

Billy Connolly’s appearances on Parky were the making of him, I think.

 

Yes very probable.
He appeared on fifteen occasions.

 

Meg Ryan. Painful to watch. Almost as though she had been forced to appear at gun point.

 

Certainly no " When Harry Met Sally" moment!

 

A couple of very entertaining drama series on the BBC right now.

The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies is an enjoyable romp through deception and narcissism, featuring Alistair Petrie’s show-stealing turn as ‘Climate Scientist’ Dr Rob Chance, truly a bounder of the first order.


The other is The Woman in the Wall an altogether less jolly proposition exploring the historical treatment of Ireland’s teenage mothers by the Church. It’s tremendous TV in parts, powerful, dark and unsettling, even if it doesn’t always convince with its plotting later on.

 

Not my favourite TV series but it does have it moments. The worst ever player is a Luton Supporter

The good bit is about 4 mins in.

 

Both of those are very good viewing so far. The Woman in the Wall got me from the very start.