BBC iPlayer Recommendations?

[The Wookiee]

Jimmy McGovern’s hard-hitting prison drama, Time, is coming back in a matter of weeks.

Season two of the celebrated drama stars Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance and Bella Ramsey.

Told through the lens of three very different inmates, series two of Time tells of life inside a women’s prison. Arriving at Carlingford Prison on the same day, Kelsey (Ramsey), Orla (Whittaker) and Abi (Lawrance) are thrown together to face an unfamiliar world. But even with the ever-present threat of violence within its walls, they discover that an unexpected sense of community, and a shared understanding, still might be possible.

Time (Series 2): Sunday 29th October, 9pm, BBC One

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Watched first two episodes last night watching next one tonight- can’t help thinking I’m watching Wentworth or Bad Girls.
Thought series one was better

 

[kevo]

Meant to post this last night, as it was perfect for Halloween...

Wisconsin Death Trip, originally made for the Arena arts series. A creepy as... docu-drama accompanied by real photographs from the time, recounting the spate of violent deaths and insanity in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, at the end of the 19th century:

Arena - Wisconsin Death Trip

Tragedy, murder and mayhem in small-town Wisconsin in the 19th century.

www.bbc.co.uk

For anyone who likes having the willies put up them on dark winter evenings, I'd also recommend the BBC2 series 'Uncanny'. Don't really believe in ghosts, but the first episode is one of the most convincing cases I've heard.

Uncanny - Series 1: 1. Case 1: Miss Howard

Do ghosts exist? Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of the supernatural.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Cordwainer]

Not sure if mentioned before…JERK..dark, self deprecating and at times funny as flip. My 15 yo watched some of it with me and asked if it was ok to be laughing at it

 

[Pevenseagull]

Old Doctor.Who.


'The War Games"

Over 50 years old


Quite good

 

[The Clamp]

Boat Story.

Very enjoyable caper about two people in way over their heads.
Great cast.
Quirky but not overly so.

 

[AIT76]

A couple of good series from the late 80's and early 90's - Making Out (soundtrack by New Order) and Cardiac Arrest (Jed Mercurio)

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Boat Story.

Very enjoyable caper about two people in way over their heads.
Great cast.
Quirky but not overly so.

Im sort of joying this but im not quite sure what it is !!

The violence is pretty extreme and im not sure it needs to be so......graphic?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Just finished Boat Story, good fun in the Coen Brothers/Lock Stock mould.

She was great in Breeders, and is strong in this too.

 

[Jack Straw]

I love the black and white documentaries on here;

BBC iPlayer - From the Archive - A to Z

Browse the From the Archive category for available TV programmes to watch on BBC iPlayer.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[peterward]

For history buffs I thought the BBCs "Rise of the Nazis' was one of the best things I've watched on the subject matter.

3 parts, that jump to certain periods. First episode very interesting as from 20s through early mid 30s.

Combination of real footage, historians and actor re-enacment.

Rise of the Nazis

How Hitler seized, kept and fell from power - from the origins of Nazism to the manhunt for the Holocaust's war criminals. Inside the minds of monsters - and those who fought them.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Charlie Livesey]

Just binge watched the Irish gangster series Kin. Can highly recommend it.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Just binge watched the Irish gangster series Kin. Can highly recommend it.

Make sure you do S2, it steps up a gear imho.

 

[Charlie Livesey]

Make sure you do S2, it steps up a gear imho.

I saw they made a second series but it hasnt appeared on iplayer.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I saw they made a second series but it hasn't appeared on iPlayer.

I'm sure they will show it soon.

I don't normally like 'open' endings setting up S3 but in this case I'll make an exception.

 

[AmexRuislip]

The Met

Capturing the challenges of policing the capital in unprecedented times. Britain's biggest and busiest police service deals with life, death and the urgent need to regain trust.

www.bbc.co.uk

Apologies if already mentioned, but.......
It's a good watch.

 

[brighton_tom]

The Met

Capturing the challenges of policing the capital in unprecedented times. Britain's biggest and busiest police service deals with life, death and the urgent need to regain trust.

www.bbc.co.uk

Apologies if already mentioned, but.......
It's a good watch.

Just finished that, some grim stories, but well put together.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Just finished that, some grim stories, but well put together.

Quite refrained on last nights program, where they danced around mentioning the Irish folk that live on a camp site in West London.
Gypsies may be ....

 

[MattBackHome]

Citizen Kane and El Cid available a few clicks away.

 

[peterward]

Gary Lineker interviews Sir Elton, going to be on football focus I think, but already on iplayer, not only does Sir Elton know his stuff, makes comments about how much he loves Brighton (and Brentford) and how well we're run.

Gary Lineker Meets - Sir Elton John

Gary Lineker meets Sir Elton John to talk about his beloved Watford FC.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Is it PotG?]

Been excellent, the 'will they/won't they?' continues and a decent plot.

Certainly sets up S6.

The BBC has confirmed that season 6 of Strike has now begun production.

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger return for the four-episode Strike: The Ink Black Heart.

This series’ cast also includes David Westhead, Christian McKay, Emma Fielding, Tupele Dorgu and James Nelson-Joyce amongst others.

Ruth Sheen will return as Pat, Strike’s office manager, alongside fellow returning cast members Jack Greenlees as Sam Barclay, Natasha O’Keeffe as Charlotte, and Caitlin Innes Edwards as Ilsa.

When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.

Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this – and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches them to their limit.