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Thanks so much for the information and the recommendation. So far, neither show has disappointed and both are on our Sunday night "go to" list. I found the Magpie Murders discussion and as a bonus, found the Annika discussion as well. Off to do some catching-up! Here's the link to the Other Dramas sub-forum if anyone else is interested: https://forums.primetimer.com/forum/4355-other-dramas/

Agreed! Kingston and Capaldi had great chemistry together. It was great to actually see two adults instead of the Doctor And The Mary Sue. Poor Peter, he didn't deserve such a badly written character arc and stories, but that episode almost made up for the others.

Our main Chicago PBS channel just started showing both Annika and Magpie Murders last night back to back and based on just the first episodes, they look like they're both worth sticking with. Fortunately we have 4 PBS channels in our viewing area so we can do multiple viewings every week if we miss something important. And I agree about Nicola Walker, she's always fascinating to watch. An internet friend who lives on the Caithness coast also strongly recommended the series. Looking forward to it! Any comments or recommendations about Magpie Murders, anyone? Has that already been shown in the UK?

And Thank You Lawrence for not disappointing me.

And, as Ben Franklin put it so well, for "proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" Rachel's regular working day today coincides with the day of an FBI raid on a Certain Florida Mansion. Fascinating to watch, and I may come back in a few hours and watch it again. When she has to modify any previous plans for her program and cover something major that just dropped, she's absolutely unbeatable. And she still can fit her originally-planned subject in. A truly perfect end to the evening would be a Lawrence O'Donnell interview with Mary T*r*u*m*p.

For me, a super-buff body and massive muscles on a guy is a turn-off (sorry, Chris H !!! ). Someone who spends six hours a day in a gym just isn't my cup of tea. Tom Ellis (Lucifer) is my idea of a nice bod - on the slender side but still VERY fit, and the rest of him ain't bad either. But I might make an exception for Chris Jericho - great face, seems reasonably intelligent AND has a sense of humor. THAT for me is sexy. It's nice to read that someone besides me enjoys characters who do Snark well. It's so much fun watching someone who's witty and intelligent and who has a very dry sense of humor and know how to use it. David Hyde Pierce is also a brilliant physical comedian. Watch his Douglas Fairbanks-like duel with Maris's fencing instructor Gunnar in "An Affair To Forget", or his brilliant facial expressions as he finally loses it when Frasier keeps trying to play Director in "Ham Radio". Steve Landesberg as Arthur Dietrich on Barney Miller was my kinda guy. He ticked all the boxes in the "Intelligent and Witty" category and did it with a perfectly deadpan face followed by just a little twitch of a smile when no one was watching. I still think he's sexy as hell. Honorable Mention in the Funny (-Sexy) category - Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on the old Carol Burnett show. "The Dentist", "The Siamese Elephants" - 'nuff said.

"No, you cannot have a number 24, nor a double portion of 37. This isn't the Chinese takeaway. This is a private slimline white telephone with no connection whatsoever to any business or trade. Especially not one of foreign extraction!"

I haven't seen the doc (we don't get HBO) but it's hard to believe the kind of prices some Ebay sellers are STILL asking for those things, some as high as middle to upper 6 figures! Mostly the Princess Di one, but quite a few others are listed at crazy prices too. I've never even looked at them before but can't help wondering if prices went nuts because of the documentary or if they've always been crazy? Or is it the sellers who are crazy? At those prices there must be a ton of fakes for sale too. I'm not going to post any links, a search of Ebay for Ty Beanie baby will show what I mean, just specify Price + Shipping - Highest First.

In the name of all Downton Dislikers, THANK YOU !!! (Now hurry up and put it back in Sir Julian's safe before he realises it's missing)

DanaK, a belated Thank You for the regular updates, it looks like a fascinating month. And a new Sir David series coming this summer! That makes me very very happy.

Thank the gods that I'm not alone in my Downton Dislike! Unlikable characters with very few exceptions, repetitive plots, inability to maintain a logical storyline, characters whose personalities change at the drop of a hat for no discernible reason, and just plain BAD, LAZY writing. Fellowes as a writer is massively overrated. As other posters have said, the first 2 or 3 seasons had some interesting episodes, but when it turned into the weekly equivalent of Bates trudging around that prison yard in circles over and over and over and over, I was out of there for good.

Yes, 60s, 70s and 80s British Rock has a lot of dark corners. Younger fans who only know the music from downloads missed out on reading and dissecting the lyrics on the liner notes or the backs of the albums. Or reading the contemporary magazines for the stories behind the songs. Pink Floyd is a perfect example. Absolutely brilliant music, but a lot of pain behind so many of the equally brilliant words. The Stones' "Brown Sugar" is another eye-opener. (And so far I don't remember reading any UOs about Fawlty Towers. That makes me very happy.)

Amen to that! I'd much rather watch Ghosts or What We Do In The Shadows or even a Frasier rerun that I've seen a dozen times already than a program about disgusting, greedy, hateful SOBs. I can watch the political news on CNN for that.

Yep! From the comments on IMDb, it was very popular in Britain in the 50s and early 60s. It must have been more popular in the US than I remembered too. I still recall that our local barber shop had an advertising poster in their window for some mens' hair product with Robin and Marian. I loved walking by the shop just to look at that poster They actually started with the first episode too. And I remember every word and note of the theme song.

And I'm probably one of the three people in the US who remembers it, but it looks like Decades is bringing back one of my favorite childhood heroes. Saturdays at 5:30 AM Central, the old 1950's British "Adventures Of Robin Hood" series starring Richard Greene. Happy day! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047706/