BBC iPlayer Recommendations?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Highly watchable 5-parter telling the story of Michaella McCollum, one half of the 'Peru Two' who tried to smuggle £1.5m of cocaine through Lima airport

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p09m6ldn/high-confessions-of-an-ibiza-drug-mule

 

[banjo]

Not on IPlayer. Anne ITV, the story of the mother of one of the boys who died in the Liverpool Notts Forest semi final game.

 

[amexer]

Strongly recommend Match of Day last night

 

[Icy Gull]

Judy, a film about Judy Garland six months before she died concerts at the Talk of the Town in London. I had no idea how controlled she was as a kid and teenager. Sad and Disgusting.money grabbing (and unmentioned sexual harassment) Louis B Mayer and her ***** husbands.

 

[Stat Brother]

Anyone else watching David Tennant's Around The World In 80 Days?

It's very big!
I'm quite enjoying it but I think it's a little too 'style over substance'.

 

[vegster]

Anyone else watching David Tennant's Around The World In 80 Days?

It's very big!
I'm quite enjoying it but I think it's a little too 'style over substance'.

It's a major international co-production in order to afford the cash and the locations. I'm enjoying it.

As a further recommendation.... TOAST!

 

[The Clamp]

The Tourist. Drama with Jamie Dornan, not the crap Johnny Depp film.

 

[Icy Gull]

The Tourist. Drama with Jamie Dornan, not the crap Johnny Depp film.

Watching that at the moment and enjoying it, slow but good. If you like Zip Zap all action, don’t bother

 

[Stat Brother]

I finished 80 Days yesterday.

I did enjoy it, perfect 'Sunday Night' fayre.

I thought the Island episode was by far the strongest.


Richard Wilson's denouement less so

 

[nickbrighton]

Not sure if mentioned earlier in the thread, currently there are Universe, Human Universe, and Adventures in Space and Time (possibly others) with Prof Bream Cox

He has a way of explaining quite complex ideas really well, and some of the facts and figures are mind boggling. The piece on the Saturn rocket that blasted off for the Apollo missions are staggering- the first stage rocket produced enough energy at lift off that was equal to PEAK Power generation of the entire UK-thats every power station at the time producing the maximum electricity possible-

Well worth a watch- the space and time series is an update on some of his other series-bringing current knowledge into it

 

[banjo]

Four Lives.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

The Tourist. Drama with Jamie Dornan, not the crap Johnny Depp film.

I gave up on this after three episodes; too much like hard work trying to follow the plot.

 

[Jim in the West]

We watched The Windermere Children last night - excellent film, and on iPlayer for another month.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Delighted every episode of Toast is on there.

YES I CAN HEAR YOU CLEM FANDANGO

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I thoroughly recommend nobody tries to watch The Tourist sll the way through. Life will ALWAYS be too short. Dreary and wooden drama-by-numbers

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I thoroughly recommend nobody tries to watch The Tourist sll the way through. Life will ALWAYS be too short. Dreary and wooden drama-by-numbers

It’s a funny old world. We loved ‘The Tourist.’ Very different to anything else we have seen. Also recently enjoyed ‘You don’t know me’ and ‘Showtrial.’

 

[Is it PotG?]

On the Beeb 4 soon, do love a bit of Faroe Islands.

https://thekillingtimestv.wordpress.co m/2019/01/17/trom-the-first-ever-faroe-islands-crime-drama/

 

[Stat Brother]

There's something like Mohammed Ali In 10 Photographs in sports documentaries.

It's ok, a bit dodgy in places esp around his daughters.
But it's not without some merit with some touching, new to me, insight.

 

[Is it PotG?]

French series The Promise (La Promesse) will be on next week. As well as Scandi Noir, BBC Four has a long and favoured history with French crime drama thanks to recent hits Spiral and Paris Police 1900.

And The Promise does have a connection to Spiral – showrunner Anne Landois is also in charge of this series, too

The story is set in the heart of Landes, during the great storm of 1999. During that tumultuous event, an 11-year-old girl – Charlotte Meyer – disappears. Police chief Pierre Castaing (Olivier Marchal) is tapped to head the investigation. But when he must release the chief suspect because of a lack of evidence, Castaing is left deeply shaken by his failure to find the girl and becomes ostracised by the local community as his family falls apart.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Watched this many moons ago, it's very good and Laura Bach is gorgeous.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0bhncgb/those-who-kill



Highly recommended for Scandi fans.