What TV show did you last watch?

(16-02-2025 16:17 )Doddle Wrote:  Sweets and Snacks We Loved and Lost
1/2 The 1970s
From the "do you remember Spangles?" school of cheap docs, with a right bunch of c-list celebs recalling crisps, chocs, ads, old sweetshops, etc

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2/2 The 1980s
Tuck shops, classic ads, horror themes replaced by sci-fi ones, Robert Elms, Woolworths Pic n Mix, and, yes, Spangles (discontinued in 1984, so no, I don't remember them).

(23-11-2024 13:27 )Doddle Wrote:  Last Week Tonight w/John Oliver
The end of Season 11, including a look at the future for Tiktok.

LWT, wJO
Back for Season 12 with a general look at what Trump has been up to. His neck, mainly.

Eastenders: 40 Years on the Square
Ross Kemp goes "home" to big up the show's trend for tackling "issues", and ends up going back to being Grant Mitchell too.

Arts in Motion
A BBC series of masterclasses; this one with Anthony Gormley, and therefore different from a usual form, and maybe more productive and fun.

Russia's Shadow, on Africa
How France decided to pass on the Central African Republic to their friends in Russia, and how they now feel about Wagner, and how some in the CAR feel about it.

(26-01-2025 13:38 )Doddle Wrote:  Landscape Artist of the Year 2019
5.9 The commission sees the winner going to Venice to homage John Ruskin. Judge Kate manages to tag along for a while. The finished picture gets the thumbs up from RIBA, but it's a giveaway that the judges picked out someone in a similar idiom to Ruskin. Had they picked anyone else, it would have been quite the clash of styles.

Landscape Artist of the Year 2021
6.1 Back at last, from Chartwell House in Kent, but with only 6 contestants instead of 8. You might have thought the open air aspect was covid-friendly, but I guess it was early days. At least the sun shines.

Invincible Ep 4 “You Were My Hero” Season 3

Arena: I Am Not Your Negro
Samuel L Jackson's tribute to James Baldwin, using notes made for a late 1970s series, unfinished, in which JB links the lives and deaths of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X. I only found out after that yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the murder of Malcolm X.

Lorraine Kelly - 40 Unforgettable Years
And on the same theme... no, wait...

There once was a lassie from Glasgae
Who made her name on the tellae
Her fans were many
From a pound to a penny
He hehehehehehehehehehe hae

A Portrait of Heather
Heather Dewar fronted a few different food shows before being allowed to make a series based on her real love, art. This tribute saw 3 artists spend time with her in making new portraits of her (come to think, Billy Connolly went through a similar tribute some years ago). She was suitably flattered by the unveiled results.