Old Skool Terrestrial Telly

[sally maclennane]

What are you watching on council telly :))

It was a few weeks ago but I absolutely loved Mr Bates and the Post Office. I knew a fair bit about the case, as I'd listened to the Nick Walis podcast about it but this series was so good, it really brought the human suffering to life. Toby Jones is just so good- as Richard Osman said on his podcast, if you're in a position of power and you think your opponent could be played by Toby Jones at some point, you know you're in the wrong :))

Any other suggestions?

[wendy james]

Do not watch After the Flood (ITV). Well, you can, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I have True Love (4, I think?) on the list. The 6th Commandment (iPlayer) was a good watch but a dramatised version of a true crime so not to everyone’s taste.

[Rebel Pebble]

Mr Bates vs The Post Office was fantastic. I'll watch Toby Jones and Monica Dolan in pretty much anything, but this was so gripping and horrifying.

I started After the Flood. The moment the stupidly annoying relatives moved in to the main character's house, I stopped. I wasn't impressed up to that point anyway.

I've watched all the recent Veras which are predictable and enjoyable as ever. :))

The David Attenborough sea monster documentary about the pleiesaur fossil was great too.

[Chicky]

The new series of Trigger Point starts on Sunday, 9pm on ITV. Series 1 was ridiculous at times but I enjoyed it.

[Hobbes]

Oh I’m quite looking forward to Trigger Point series 2, even though series 1 was, as you say Chicky, ludicrous at times.

We have just watches The Lazarus Project series 1, a time travel thing which I did find enjoyable, and series 2 is now out too so will probably continue with that.

[Derek Nimmo]

The Lazarus Project is only on Now TV I think?

[Margo]

Hope Street on iPlayer is pretty good. Non demanding police drama set in a gorgeous little town in Northern Ireland. It’s a bit cheesy but somehow I can’t stop watching!

[rosy]

Do not watch After the Flood (ITV). Well, you can, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I have True Love (4, I think?) on the list. The 6th Commandment (iPlayer) was a good watch but a dramatised version of a true crime so not to everyone’s taste.

I started recording After the Flood but now several people have told me not to bother! I’ll free up the space.

[sally maclennane]

Yeah, I have it recorded it too, but might just bin it.

[Morganna]

The first half of the first episode of After The Flood really had me on the edge of my seat, but it went downhill rapidly after that.

I should like Vera, but I can't watch a whole episode. Half way through I realise that my mind has wandered and I've lost track of the very pedestrian plot. I'm the same with Shetland though, so maybe it's Ann Cleeves I can't get on board with.

[Luna]

I always fall asleep in the last 30 minutes of a Vera.

[Kenickie]

I love Vera, and Brenda Blethyn.

[sally maclennane]

The Miners Strike programme on Channel 4 is very good. Depressing but interesting.

[Kleio]

I always fall asleep in the last 30 minutes of a Vera.

The last Vera was filmed in my hometown. I don't watch it regularly as I can't stand the character but it was fun location spotting.

Is anyone watching the Great Pottery Throwdown? I've never seen it before but I was sucked into watching it following the Christmas special and I'm really enjoying it. I wish I'd watched the previous ones. I can't stand the bloke who dresses in Hawaiian shirts though.

[Derek Nimmo]

It's one of my favourite programmes! J got me into it. There's a couple of old series on 4od I think?

[TracyA]

Vera is also often filmed in my 'hometown' (where I was born and grew up, not where I now live), but it isn't the same one as Kleio's !! Not a million miles away though.

I quite like stuff like 24 hours in police custody on channel 4, and there was a 3 parter on the past few weeks called 'catching a copper' or something like that, about a team within the police, who deal with dodgy police.

Me and My Mum started watching a channel 5 drama called 'too good to be true' last week, it's a bit cheesy and predictable, but easy watching. It's really hard to find something that OH, My Mum and I all want to watch together. I think Mr Bates and the Post office was probably the last thing we all watched together, other than Gogglebox.

[Hazey_Jane]

Since I moved to a country where you flick on the telly and there’s around 20 channels mostly showing stuff in OV (I hate dubbing) without having to faff around too much, I’ve been watching:

- reruns of ER. Every night at 6.30pm one of the channels shows two episodes. A few weeks ago they showed the very last episode of series 15 with the very annoying British doctor and her Aussie boyfriend and where Carter opens the clinic in the name of his son and then the second episode was the very first one again where you see Carter all new and fresh faces, Mark Greene with hair etc.

- Eastenders. I got sucked in. Quite enjoying the George storyline with his dad and watching Denise and Linda do doolally.

[Luna]

Vera is a bonafide unlikeable old bag.

I’m enjoying Silent Witness at the moment. I want Nicky and Jack to marry.

[Disco]

Is anyone watching the Great Pottery Throwdown?

I love this programme. I always watch it.

Catching A Copper cemented my mistrust of the police. Interesting series though and I love 24 Hours in Policy Custody. I think it's on tonight but it might be a repeat.

[Morganna]

I watched the Too Good To Be True thing, and enjoyed it until it went batshit in the last episode, which Ch5 dramas so often do, for some reason.