What are you watching tonight?

[bobo the clown]

Genuinely don't know how Leigh Francis has a career

Fckg this ↑↑↑↑

Really, apart from Clapton, who it's established has poor taste, can someone explain this guy to me ?

[Worthy4England]

Genuinely don't know how Leigh Francis has a career

Fckg this ↑↑↑↑

Really, apart from Clapton, who it's established has poor taste, can someone explain this guy to me ?

I have extremely poor taste and low moral values. I could probably give it a go, but I think I'd be wasting my breath?

[Worthy4England]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011 version) is on Channel 4 at 21:00. Saw it when it came out and will probably give it another go tonight. Thought it was good.

[TANGODANCER]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011 version) is on Channel 4 at 21:00. Saw it when it came out and will probably give it another go tonight. Thought it was good.

Wife bought me the DVD. Brilliant film with Gary Oldman's Smiley an acting master class.
Charles Trenet's La Mer at the end is perfect for the atmospheric bit. Benedict Cumberbatch does a good job too. Top film.

[Prufrock]

Is it only me who thought it was a bit, well, shit then? I know book-to-TV is hard, but the general idea is to do it in such a way that someone who hasn't read the book has a fecking clue what's going on. It was all a bit too self-indulgent, long pause, "look at Gary Oldman bloody act there. Look at him, he's acting!" for me.

[TANGODANCER]

Is it only me who thought it was a bit, well, shit then? I know book-to-TV is hard, but the general idea is to do it in such a way that someone who hasn't read the book has a fecking clue what's going on. It was all a bit too self-indulgent, long pause, "look at Gary Oldman bloody act there. Look at him, he's acting!" for me.

So, you thought it was pretty good then.

[General Mannerheim]

Bit harsh, granted Keith Lemon is shit but some of the early BO Selecta was quality?

[LeverEnd]

Bit harsh, granted Keith Lemon is shit but some of the early BO Selecta was quality?

It did make me chuckle. Apparently the KL film is quite appalling.

Watched About Time last night at the cinema. Not really my choice but actually not bad despite the predictable oversentimentality. Some quite funny moments. Spot on if you have a Missus who likes rom-coms.

[Bruce Rioja]

Genuinely don't know how Leigh Francis has a career

Fckg this ↑↑↑↑

Really, apart from Clapton, who it's established has poor taste, can someone explain this guy to me ?

I just had to look up Leigh Francis. Ahh, Keith Lemon. British comedy is currently in the doldrums, the likes of which I've never known. Epitomised in the main by this 4uckwit, Mrs Brown's Boys, Count Arthur Strong and Omid Djalili. Apparently, as part of his stadium act, Peter Kay is doing this thing about misheard song lyrics - something that naff Radio One presenter, Gary Davies, was doing 30 years ago on his 'Bit in the Middle' show.

[bobo the clown]

Is it only me who thought it was a bit, well, shit then? I know book-to-TV is hard, but the general idea is to do it in such a way that someone who hasn't read the book has a fecking clue what's going on. It was all a bit too self-indulgent, long pause, "look at Gary Oldman bloody act there. Look at him, he's acting!" for me.

I am obsessive about the Smiley novels. I rarely read something more than once but must have read the series 5 or 6 times.

I also have both the 1976-7 Alec Guinness TV series on tape and now CD as well as this Gary Oldman film. Most enjoyable of all maybe are the BBC Radio dramatisations on tape. The best of the lot for me is the Bernard Hepton 1979-80 radio version. Finally the more recent, 2011 Simon Russell Beale radio dramatisation. This was 'OK' but, given the quality of the Hepton one seemed unnecessary.

I play the cd's on longer car journeys so often I must know every word but never, ever tire of them.

The Oldman film is good, really it is, but squeezing all that story into a couple of hours film is close to impossible.

[wigan white]

Hitler's Rise: The colour films, on now on C4. Thought I would give it a go and its surprisingly interesting.

[bobo the clown]

Hitler's Rise: The colour films, on now on C4. Thought I would give it a go and its surprisingly interesting.

Hitler was in colour ???

[thebish]

watched the penultimate episode of BBC's latest sunday evening offering: "What Remains"

it's startlingly, creepily good in a sinister way!

last episode next week - am sure it must be available on BBC i-player

[William the White]

I watched Simon Schama on the history of the Jews as he took the story up to 1492 and the expulsion of the Jews from spain. The story was familiar to me, but it was, once more, uplifing to see footage of two of my favourite cities on earth - Cordoba and Venice... The first because for a couple of centuries it managed to find a form of peaceful coexistence between the three great Abrahamaic faiths (almost unique since the conversion of Constantine and the disaster of Christianity becoming a state religion); the second - Venice - because it was the site of the first Jewish ghetto, a word that now seems hung with sorrow...

[ChrisC]

9/11 The Firemans Story.

Hard to watch in places and a very different account than you usually see from programmes on 9/11.

Some truly remarkable men. One fireman said he was trying to avoid body parts when driving upto the towers until it got to a point where he couldn't possibly avoid driving over them any longer because there was so many. He then asked for forgiveness for doing so like he was a bad person!

It is currently being shown and repeated over the next few days on National Geograpic channel if anybody wants to watch it.

To this day almost 12 years on, when you see that plane hit the tower it still makes me sick to my stomach and all the hairs on my neck stand on end. RIP to all the people lost on that horrific day.

[TANGODANCER]

Is it only me who thought it was a bit, well, shit then? I know book-to-TV is hard, but the general idea is to do it in such a way that someone who hasn't read the book has a fecking clue what's going on. It was all a bit too self-indulgent, long pause, "look at Gary Oldman bloody act there. Look at him, he's acting!" for me.

It was actually selling himself as George Smiley I was on about. He did that brilliantly.

[General Mannerheim]

Wacthed a great film on the train called 'Kings of Summer'. a bit of a cliched coming-of-age 'stand by me' teenagers running away from home type thing, but still somehow dead endearing with a few genuine LOL's. corker.

[CrazyHorse]

watched the penultimate episode of BBC's latest sunday evening offering: "What Remains"

it's startlingly, creepily good in a sinister way!

last episode next week - am sure it must be available on BBC i-player

It is pretty good isn't it?
I reckon it's the Northern Irish fella what done it. Or maybe Frank Gallagher.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Is it only me who thought it was a bit, well, shit then? I know book-to-TV is hard, but the general idea is to do it in such a way that someone who hasn't read the book has a fecking clue what's going on. It was all a bit too self-indulgent, long pause, "look at Gary Oldman bloody act there. Look at him, he's acting!" for me.

I am obsessive about the Smiley novels. I rarely read something more than once but must have read the series 5 or 6 times.

I also have both the 1976-7 Alec Guinness TV series on tape and now CD as well as this Gary Oldman film. Most enjoyable of all maybe are the BBC Radio dramatisations on tape. The best of the lot for me is the Bernard Hepton 1979-80 radio version. Finally the more recent, 2011 Simon Russell Beale radio dramatisation. This was 'OK' but, given the quality of the Hepton one seemed unnecessary.

I play the cd's on longer car journeys so often I must know every word but never, ever tire of them.

The Oldman film is good, really it is, but squeezing all that story into a couple of hours film is close to impossible.

The Alec Guiness version is my favourite. I watched the Gary Oldman version for the first time last night. I thought his characterisation was alright, but for me Smiley needs to be more 'bookiish' than Oldman portrays him. Ricky Tarr was better in the film than the TV series though. And I thought Kathy Burke's Connie Sachs was apalling.

[thebish]

watched the penultimate episode of BBC's latest sunday evening offering: "What Remains"

it's startlingly, creepily good in a sinister way!

last episode next week - am sure it must be available on BBC i-player

It is pretty good isn't it?
I reckon it's the Northern Irish fella what done it. Or maybe Frank Gallagher.

I have absolutely no idea who done it!! the psycho lezzer, the weird goth son, the pervy teacher... I'll certainly be watching next week to find out!

so... to summarize...

Nice lesbian killed Melissa. Michael confessed believing Liz had killed her. He had been sheltering Liz because she had killed her step-dad. Nasty lesbian was blackmailing and controlling nice lesbian because she knew nice lesbian killed Melissa.
Pregnant lady found out about Michael and Liz and dumped him. Harper moved in to Melissa's flat and became the babysitter. Formerly nice lesbian (before we found out she did the murder) killed herself or was murdered by nasty lesbian. Nasty lesbian attempted to kill Harper and pregnant lady. Creepy alcoholic newspaper guy and GF apparently lived happily ever after.