[TV] What's good to watch on BBC iPlayer ?

[kevo]

Really enjoyed The Listeners, a contemporary version of those cult 1970s series of the weird...

The Listeners

Can you hear it? Is this mysterious hum a gift for the chosen few – or the soundtrack to a living nightmare? Provocative, haunting drama starring Rebecca Hall.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Is it PotG?]

The BBC has released some first-look images from its upcoming crime drama, This City Is Ours, starring Sean Bean.

The eight-part series tells the story of Michael (James Nelson-Joyce), a man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organised crime, working for his friend and the gang leader Ronnie (Bean). When Ronnie begins to hint at retirement, Michael too begins to imagine another life. Because, for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose – Diana (Hannah Onslow).
This City is Ours is the story of Michael and Diana’s love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, together with Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Colombia; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their Kingdom is under attack.

This City is Ours is the story of Michael and Diana’s love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, together with Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Colombia; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their Kingdom is under attack.

The series also explores what happens when Ronnie’s son Jamie ( Jack McMullen) decides he wants to inherit their kingdom and that there is no longer a place for Michael at the table. Both Michael and Jamie have bold ideas to modernise the gang and they will battle for control of it. But Michael’s biggest battle will be to save the woman he loves and the child he has always wanted.

The cast also includes Julie Graham as Elaine, head of the Phelan family alongside her husband Ronnie.

 

[Machiavelli]

Not on BBC but heads up that on C4 at 9 tonight is Walden and Thatcher by the outstanding James Graham starring Harriet Walker and Steve Coogan.

 

[The Clamp]

The BBC has released some first-look images from its upcoming crime drama, This City Is Ours, starring Sean Bean.

The eight-part series tells the story of Michael (James Nelson-Joyce), a man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organised crime, working for his friend and the gang leader Ronnie (Bean). When Ronnie begins to hint at retirement, Michael too begins to imagine another life. Because, for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose – Diana (Hannah Onslow).
This City is Ours is the story of Michael and Diana’s love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, together with Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Colombia; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their Kingdom is under attack.

This City is Ours is the story of Michael and Diana’s love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, together with Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Colombia; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their Kingdom is under attack.

The series also explores what happens when Ronnie’s son Jamie ( Jack McMullen) decides he wants to inherit their kingdom and that there is no longer a place for Michael at the table. Both Michael and Jamie have bold ideas to modernise the gang and they will battle for control of it. But Michael’s biggest battle will be to save the woman he loves and the child he has always wanted.

The cast also includes Julie Graham as Elaine, head of the Phelan family alongside her

Not much point in watching it now.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Not much point in watching it now.

Oooh, I shall.....sounds pretty decent.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Virdee – the BBC’s new, six-part adaptation of AA Dhand’s novel(s).

Staz Nair stars in the lead role of Bradford-based detective, Harry Virdee. He is joined by Aysha Kala who plays Harry’s wife, Saima and Vikash Bhai as Saima’s brother, Riaz. The series also stars Kulvinder Ghir and Sudha Bhuchar as Harry parents, Ranjit and Jyoti and Elizabeth Berrington, as Harry’s boss DS Clare Conway and Danyal Ismail as Harry’s new partner, DS Amin.

A turf war is brewing in the underbelly of the city with the police losing its grip on gang rivalries as they spill out onto the streets of Bradford. When a young dealer is murdered, Harry’s duty to uphold the law clashes with his links to members of the crime gangs. With his personal life in chaos, he must hunt down whoever is targeting those around him.

Whilst the killer holds the entire city to ransom, Harry realises that he is going to need the help of his brother-in-law Riaz, a drugs kingpin who runs the largest cartel in the county. Pulled together in an alliance that could ruin them both, Harry must make a choice: save himself and his family or save his city. He will not be able to do both.

Mon 10th Feb.

 

[keaton]

New episodes of Norwegian detective drama Wisting on this Saturday night. It's not The Bridge/Wallander/The Killing but the best of the recent ones.

Though The Breakthrough on Netflix was decent

 

[vegster]

Just watching ep 2 series 2 of SAS: Rogue Hero's....its all gone a but shit really, Mayne is overdoing the philisophy/ranting bullshit isn't he ?

 

[Is it PotG?]

The Gold stars Hugh Bonneville alongside Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Spencer, Tom Cullen, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia and Stefanie Martini.

The upcoming heist drama based on the true story of the infamous Brink’s Mat robbery.

Inspired by extensive research and interviews with some of those involved in the events, The Gold is a pulsating dramatization which takes a journey into a 1980s world awash with cheap money and loosened morals to tell this extraordinary and epic story for the first time in its entirety.

Inspired by the true story of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed, The Gold is returning to BBC One later this year.

Following the conviction of some of those involved in the theft and handling of the Brink’s-Mat gold, the police (Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliot) realised that those criminals only ever had half of it. Series two explores what happened to the other half, and the criminal fortune it created. As the police investigation continues, it becomes a tense, high-stakes journey into international money laundering and organised crime, the police embark on a series of dramatic manhunts as they desperately try to solve the longest and most expensive investigation in the history of the Metropolitan Police.

The likes of Tom Hughes, Stephen Campbell Moore, Joshua McGuire, Tamsin Topolski, Joshua Samuels and Rochelle Neil are all joining series two, along with Antonia Desplat, Lorna Brown, Thomas Coombes, Sean Teale and Olivia Grant.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Virdee – the BBC’s new, six-part adaptation of AA Dhand’s novel(s).

Staz Nair stars in the lead role of Bradford-based detective, Harry Virdee. He is joined by Aysha Kala who plays Harry’s wife, Saima and Vikash Bhai as Saima’s brother, Riaz. The series also stars Kulvinder Ghir and Sudha Bhuchar as Harry parents, Ranjit and Jyoti and Elizabeth Berrington, as Harry’s boss DS Clare Conway and Danyal Ismail as Harry’s new partner, DS Amin.

A turf war is brewing in the underbelly of the city with the police losing its grip on gang rivalries as they spill out onto the streets of Bradford. When a young dealer is murdered, Harry’s duty to uphold the law clashes with his links to members of the crime gangs. With his personal life in chaos, he must hunt down whoever is targeting those around him.

Whilst the killer holds the entire city to ransom, Harry realises that he is going to need the help of his brother-in-law Riaz, a drugs kingpin who runs the largest cartel in the county. Pulled together in an alliance that could ruin them both, Harry must make a choice: save himself and his family or save his city. He will not be able to do both.

Mon 10th Feb.

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Was ok, pretty standard fayre if a little clichéd at times.
Quite fast paced which helped.

 

[BrightonCottager]

I enjoyed Charlie Cooper's Myth Country Charlie Cooper’s Myth Country, Winter Solstice: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00264tw via @bbciplayer

It's got a bit of This Country / Detectorists vibe to it (& he and his dad are Cottagers)

 

[A1X]

Mentioned it on another thread, but Corridors of Power is an excellent documentary series on US foreign policy interventions (or lack thereof) since the end of the Cold War (some of the footage is quite brutal, it’s not for the faint-hearted)

Also the Brawn GP documentary with Keane Reeves is excellent

Final documentary, the 7/7 series in earlier this year, a tough watch at times but very good

 

[BrightonCottager]

I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I've watched and enjoyed all 4 episodes of Miss Austen over the last 2 nights. I've never read a Jane Austen book and generally swerve period dramas, but it's got Keeley Hawes starring as Jane Austen's sister, Cassandra. There are some good portrayals of what I imagine to be the type of characters in Austen J's books and it was strangely affecting.

If you spot someone in the away end on March 8th wearing a top hat and frock coat, that'll be me.

 

[highflyer]

Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone

Following the lives of four young people trying to survive the Israel-Hamas war as they hope for a ceasefire - a vivid and unflinching view of life in a warzone.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not an easy watch, but superb film making.

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

An t-Eilean....

A kind of Gaelic 'Succession'

Easy to binge only 4 x 45 minute episodes, very enjoyable though felt a bit rushed

 

[junior]

We just laughed out way through 'Amandaland'.

 

[Is it PotG?]

The One That Got Away stars Elen Rhys (The Mallorca Files, Craith/ Hidden) as DI Ffion Lloyd, who teams up with her former lover, DS Rick Sheldon (Richard Harrington, Y Gwyll/Hinterland), to investigate the murder of a nurse in a Welsh seaside town.

Written by Catherine Tregenna (Law & Order UK, Lewis, DCI Banks), and directed by Sion Ifan (Y Goleudy), this psychologically driven thriller delves into the complex relationship between Rick and Ffion as they confront not only a killer but also the unresolved issues of their past. The murder stirs up old wounds in the small community, casting doubt on a historic conviction and raising the chilling possibility of a copycat killer. The series offers a forensic examination of a town, a killer, and a love affair – both past and present.

BBC One Wales & BBC Four from February 25​

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

The Death of Stalin is both a tremendous comedy but also tells you everything you need to know about the Soviet Union and a fair bit of how Putin's Russia works.

Following a late night rebroadcast on BBC2, this excellent film is now available on iPlayer for the coming month.

Apparently there's even a documentary to go with it.

The Death of Stalin

 

[Is it PotG?]

The Death of Stalin is both a tremendous comedy but also tells you everything you need to know about the Soviet Union and a fair bit of how Putin's Russia works.

Following a late night rebroadcast on BBC2, this excellent film is now available on iPlayer for the coming month.

Apparently there's even a documentary to go with it.

The Death of Stalin

It's on a little too late for me.

 

[BrightonCottager]

The Death of Stalin is both a tremendous comedy but also tells you everything you need to know about the Soviet Union and a fair bit of how Putin's Russia works.

Following a late night rebroadcast on BBC2, this excellent film is now available on iPlayer for the coming month.

Apparently there's even a documentary to go with it.

The Death of Stalin

Nice one - I've only ever watched the first half hour. I recently read Archangel by Robert Harris, which has a storyline largely about the death of Stalin, so I'll watch all this time.