New telly shows thread

[merman]

Great British Bake Off is one of those things that I've never seen but that constantly filled up my social network feeds. Nonetheless I'm quite surprised that it's moving to Channel 4 and even more surprised that it was hosted all along my Mel & Sue off of the 90s O_O

new linky

Mel and Sue have quit. Mary Berry is considering retiring and Paul Hollywood is not talking about staying on.

So Channel 4 paid £75 million for a tent and some ovens.

Surely you'd buy it ONLY with the presenters attached ? I did like their resignation letter, I bet their public personas have rocketed even further skywards.

Love Productions got greedy, and assumed the others were in it for the money too.
They hold the "format rights", but did not have the presenters tied to longer contracts.

The BBC also has a clause that can be enforced, meaning it would have to be more than a year before the new programme could start (much as they did with Clarkson's Mob.) But they are not looking to enforce it.

[Baggypants]

Great British Bake Off is one of those things that I've never seen but that constantly filled up my social network feeds. Nonetheless I'm quite surprised that it's moving to Channel 4 and even more surprised that it was hosted all along my Mel & Sue off of the 90s O_O

new linky

Mel and Sue have quit. Mary Berry is considering retiring and Paul Hollywood is not talking about staying on.

So Channel 4 paid £75 million for a tent and some ovens.

I mis-read that as Matt Berry. I'd be all over that show,

[Firefox]

even more surprised that it was hosted all along my Mel & Sue off of the 90s O_O

Remember this?



(The trailer; I was always at work when the actual program was on.)

[gumboot]

So Macgyver's getting a reboot, then. Don't think I'll be going out of my way to see that.

[k345y]

Caught up in Halt and Catch Fire.

A 3 season US show that captures the good old 8bit days in a dramatisation type thing, show, whatever the genre is.
It's chocka full of references and parodies of popular concepts and despite it's cringeworthy cliches at times it will have the gussets any old coder, enthusiast, or gamer wet to the max with it's reference..

IMDB - 'It's the early 1980s, and the spirit of innovation in personal computing is about to catch fire. Hot on the trail is a renegade trio -- a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy -- who risk everything to realize their vision of building a computer that can change the future. Not long after IBM corners the market with its flagship PC, a flaw is discovered in its operation, opening the door for competition. In steps Joe MacMillan, a former IBM executive who now works for Cardiff Electric. MacMillan plans to reverse-engineer IBM's technology, putting Cardiff in the thick of the personal computer race. He enlists the help of engineer Gordon Clark, who dreams of creating a revolutionary computer, and Cameron Howe, a volatile prodigy who puts her future on the line to join MacMillan's rogue project.'

[Darkflame]

Ok, Braindead is worth watching.

[Meow]

Ok, Braindead is worth watching.

Yes, Yes it is. It does take awhile to get into tho. But once you do, it turns out to be pretty good. It ends nicely too.



I've watch the first episode. Ermm not sure....



Promising so far. Better than Hotel.

[Darkflame]

MacGyver 2016 E01 - eh. pretty much the most cliche thing possible on tv. Every beat, every character (yeah,its a team thing now). Not actively bad, just so formula.

[Deckard]

Great British Bake Off is one of those things that I've never seen but that constantly filled up my social network feeds. Nonetheless I'm quite surprised that it's moving to Channel 4 and even more surprised that it was hosted all along my Mel & Sue off of the 90s O_O

new linky

Mel and Sue have quit. Mary Berry is considering retiring and Paul Hollywood is not talking about staying on.

So Channel 4 paid £75 million for a tent and some ovens.

I mis-read that as Matt Berry. I'd be all over that show,

I'd watch anything with Matt in, Toast is just priceless



And Clem rocks

[_TinOmen_]

Caught up in Halt and Catch Fire.

I have only watched the first season but it was fantastic. How they manage to get the concept of writing a PC compatible BIOS into a good drama is beyond me, but the series is on my all-time top list together with Sopranos, Breaking Bad etc.

Halt and Catch Fire together with Silicon Valley (HBO) are proof that good drama (and superb parody) is possible even with something so apparently dull as the IT-business.

[Misfit]

Luke Cage teaser. Looks like they may be taking a slightly lighter approach on this one...

In the 'excitement' of getting another year oldes I completely forgot this came out last Friday.

Anybody dipped in yet and got an opinion? I've loved the Dare Devil/Jessica Jones part of the Marvel Universe so far, so got high hopes for this. Always a bad way to start!

[Deckard]

Luke Cage teaser. Looks like they may be taking a slightly lighter approach on this one...

In the 'excitement' of getting another year oldes I completely forgot this came out last Friday.

Anybody dipped in yet and got an opinion? I've loved the Dare Devil/Jessica Jones part of the Marvel Universe so far, so got high hopes for this. Always a bad way to start!

Apparently it "crashed: Netflix !

Just downloaded Westworld to watch later today. Loved the original Crichton film and this is meant to be very dark....

[Misfit]

Just downloaded Westworld to watch later today. Loved the original Crichton film and this is meant to be very dark....

Downloaded? Can't you just stream via Kodi?

I shall be doing the same as it does look very interesting and dark. Can't be done with Sky's ad breaks every few minutes, Should be abolished when you pay for channels...

[Deckard]

Just downloaded Westworld to watch later today. Loved the original Crichton film and this is meant to be very dark....

Downloaded? Can't you just stream via Kodi?

I shall be doing the same as it does look very interesting and dark. Can't be done with Sky's ad breaks every few minutes, Should be abolished when you pay for channels...

Bad habit from my pre 80mb broadband speeds as used to drop the files onto my Fire Tv memory card. Just about to watch the 2nd and third of Legion - ep 1 was well, Legion and tricksy which I liked with an Inception edge about it.

[Misfit]

Marvel's Ironfist hits Netlix today.

Not as instantly wowed by the trailer as much as the previous Marvel adaptions, but the quality has been consistently high through them all so I shall watch an episode or two this week.