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Dennis Miller Plus One - Howie Mandel
Rather a lot on mental health, then America's Got Talent.

Titans Ep 4 “Aqualad” Season 2

Billions Season 5 Episodes 1 - 6 - Great series and entertaining as ever. The cat and mouse story between the characters is good viewing, although a little slow in places, it still has enough to keep me watching. Damien Lewis and Paul Giamatti are always on form in this series and season 5 continues with great dialogue and good twists and turns.

Marvel Agents Of Shield Season 7 Episodes 1 and 2 - Another quality series and good to see the team back (minus Fitz in the first 2 episodes). Watching Coulson return to the fold is great and the 1931 setting in these 2 episodes is great aswell. I'm Looking forward to catching up with the rest of this season when it airs.

Siren season 3 Epsodes 1 - 10. I was a little disappointed with this season and the previous season as a whole. Season 1 was quite entertaining but it seemed to go off the boil as the other 2 seasons tried to progress. Not bad but easily forgettable.

(04-06-2020 20:16 )Doddle Wrote:  

(01-06-2020 20:15 )Doddle Wrote:  David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema
1 of 3 - Game Changers
Glad they included Breaker Morant.

2 of 3 - Outsiders
More great stuff

3 of 3 - Families
A fine end to a really enjoyable series about a huge number of amazing movies.

Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Part Two - The Magnificent Medici
PBS America - 2004

More about the family which ruled Florence and Tuscany for three centuries.

Cosimo's grandson Lorenzo de Medici took the reins in 1469. He survived an assassination attempt by a rival family which had the unwritten approval of the Pope and in maintaining his control of the levers of power was able to continue with his artistic and architectural concerns which were central to the classical renaissance. Botticelli produced his greatest paintings under Lorenzo's patronage and Leonardo was discovered as a thirteen year old, chiselling the marble in Lorenzo's art school, the first in the world.

This is Botticelli's The Adoration of the Magi. The figure on the right is Botticelli but most of the "Magi" are members of the Medici family.

Wha's Like Us?
Sanjeev Kohli looks over the image of the Scots in films, from funny to sad. A bit like the above Aussie series, only in 1/3 of the time.

Star Trek Voyager Ep 11 “Manoeuvres” Season 2.

Seska nasty piece of work.

Springwatch
Episode 9 - 2019

The presenters spent the first ten minutes arguing about whether a Chaffinch chick had been eaten by a Pine Marten. As Packham likes to say: "This is why you pay the licence fee" although hopefully not for much longer.

Later on they did feature some interesting segments with a look at some of the birds which breed in the Cairngorms like the Ring Ouzel, Ptarmigan and Dotterel.

Of most interest to me was the feature on the Atlantic Herring which suffered a population crash fifty years ago probably due to overfishing. The North Sea population has since recovered somewhat unlike the West coast of Scotland where numbers have remained low. This has a knock on effect as herring eggs are food for fish such as sand eels, sand eels are food for birds like puffins and puffins are food for bearded chaps in thick jumpers who smoke pipes.
It was reported in 2018 that some divers had stumbled on a large herring spawning ground off Gairloch in Wester Ross and that the fish had returned the following year. The seafloor habitat that they spawn in is called maerl which I'd never heard of before. This consists of lumps of coral-like material created by red algae which form a loose carpet on the sea floor. The eggs of the herring and other fish species are protected and oxygenated in the large spaces between the particles and these areas of maerl (remember it for scrabble) may have to be protected from damage by fishing nets if they want the population of herring to recover.

Maerl

The Toys That Made Us Ep 1 “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Season 3.

Ricky & Ralf's Very Northern Road Trip,
pt 1 of 6 - Blackpool, Preston & beyond
Aye, lads, there's no place like home.