100 years of Solitude on Netflix. It came with the highest recommendation and we watched 3 or 4 episodes last night. Excellent.
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Based on the Jonathan Lethem book? I
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I watched the whole of La Palma. You end up rooting for the natural disaster.
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The novel is by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I’ve not read it but apparently it’s very good.
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Brilliant
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Me too. Edge of seat stuff. Fantastic series! Bring on S3
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Watched Heretic last night. An enjoyable watch that raises many queations about the ridiculousness of religious worship - good to see Hugh Grant not playing a bumbling romantic. 7/10
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The Six Triple Eight, very feel good viewing of a pretty amazing story. The 4K CGI rendering pretty jarring but its becoming standard isnt it.
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Just saw this today, loved it
Thought I’d take one of those funny chocolates and watch the Substance
Anyway
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Ha ha ha! Fucking hell. I hate Jools Holland so much 
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So true.
Only way Roland Rivron can get on TV these days.
Seasick Steve was probably there playing a banjo made out of shit he found in a skip, Beverly Knight is a given also, with boogie woogie accompaniment from the Jools Holland wankestra- plus an audience of self satisfied upper middle class audience members that think Mumford and Sons are ‘edgy’ there primarily for the free booze.
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Me too, and managed to avoid it this year with the help of Heretic which we really enjoyed.
However… what I find sadder than the parade of run of the mill performers on Jools is the fact that it is about the only live music left on mainstream telly - a truly sad state of affairs.
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I enjoy his little cameo in Uncertain Smile but that’s about as far as it gets for me.
Yes exactly. Jools has an audience… don’t resent him for that. The pity is that it’s him or nothing… so we all choose nothing. TV is losing audience to the point of obsolescence because by being so far entrenched in the mor that for most of us there’s nothing left to watch. At least there used to be programming aimed at niche interests
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Fair point- that and the proms is pretty much it.
The BBC seems to have silo’d most of the live stuff to I player.
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Stopped watching BBC when I left England and by necessity switched to YouTube and other streams for any kind of music tv. I find a lot of professional YouTubers have a lot more freedom to go deep than formulaic BBC 4 docs
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The Man Who Would be King is on BBC2 at 1510 this avo. One of my all time favourites.
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Watched this today after reading the above. Near perfect New Years Day viewing.
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