British/UK TV Shows - Discussion

(04-09-2019 12:39 )GMach1 Wrote:  Have the BBC found another Bodyguard? I think so because last night, having been plugged for some time, the new thriller The Capture. A soldier who is cleared of killing a Taliban fighter indiscriminately now founds himself arrested for a crime it appears he didn't commit-an attack on the barrister that defended him. Was it him? Was what was seen on CCTV really what happened? We don't know yet, but it is gripping and may well have more twists and turns like the Bodyguard.

just binging it now. good show.

(03-10-2019 21:25 )Doddle Wrote:  I haven't bothered with the Porridge/Open All Hours revivals. I know new sitcoms are often dire, but it's no excuse to go "well, here's some old ones redone instead".

You should give Still Open All Hours a go. Not as good as the original but David Jason makes it work ok.

Porridge, not so much...

BBC1 Series confirmed returning NEXT year are:
Father Brown
Death In Paradise
Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators
London Kills S2
The Mallorca Files(think Moonlighting meets Death In Paradise)
Doctor Who
The Greatest Dancer S2

Oh yes and the Danny Dyer/Angela Rippon quiz game THE WALL is also returning next year-luvvly-jubbly

David Tennant will appear in a new 8pt 1 hr series about Philleas Fogg in 'Around the World in Eighty Days' for BBC1 next year.

And speaking of David Tennant, he and Michael Sheen who starred in Netflix's sci-fi, supernatural series GOOD OMENS this year will be able to be seen by BBC2 viewers as it will be shown on that channel Wednesday 15th January 2020.

"It's Friday! It's five-to-five and it's...CRACKERJACK!! If you remember that show from your youth(and I would remember the late 70's, early to mid 80's) then you'll probably come over all nostalgic as it is coming back. Maybe you recall Michael Aspel or Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart as presenters and Don Maclean and Peter Glaze and their silly slapstick films OR Stu "Ooh I could crush a grape" Francis and Sally-Ann Triplett(who had been a member of Bardo that represented the UK in Eurovision in 1982)

Recorded last year and previewed as a special in Children IN Need last November, the games and gunge fun show has been 'rebooted' for a new generation of young kids for CBBC satellite channel and goes out next Friday on there. Fronted now by Sam Nixon and Mark Rhoads(who have more talent than Ant and Dec) it will bring back the silly games and gunge and of course the famous Double or Drop where contestants have to answer questions: if they get it right they are given prizes to hold onto BUT get it wrong or drop a prize then you are given a cabbage-get three cabbages and you're out!

Our Girl, starring Michelle Keegan(who is married to Mark Wright) will be back for a new series this year. The show centres on Michelle as a soldier/medic sent to various places in the world to help out as part of a force. In the last season finale, the soldiers and her were pinned down by guerillas and the last scene was them literally jumping of a cliff edge...talk about cliffhanger!

Just seen that BBC 4 are going to be Showing This life again from monday 3rd of Feb at 10pm loved this show when it started

Really? I wonder why it has taken so long to re-show it. It was a good show for its time.

I see Danny Dyer is advertising for new contestants to take part in series 2 of The Wall-no date has been mooted for the next series.

Series 3 of cult show Shakespeare and Hathaway-Private Investigators starts next Monday, 2.15pm on BBC1. This series has been sold to 75 countries around the world.