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Hyacinth B

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  1. 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/
  2. 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.
  3. 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?
  4. And Thank You Lawrence for not disappointing me.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. "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!"
  8. 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.
  9. 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)
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.)
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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/
  16. I never expected a shoutout to Frasier from a vampire so when Nandor muttered "Good Night Seattle, and good mental health" I completely lost it. I LOVE THIS SHOW !!!! Now all that I need is a Nadja Doll for my joy to be complete. And another episode with Mark Hamill.
  17. While it's always a pleasure to watch commercials featuring Italian food, the new Olive Garden commercial adds to the fun by using some of Jon Batiste's song "I Need You". https://www.ispot.tv/ad/qYcu/olive-garden-tv-i-need-you-you-and-you-song-by-jon-batiste The full video is fun too, and worth a watch.
  18. Chicago-area MM fans - WTTW Channel 11, Chicago's main PBS channel, will be airing a Season 17 marathon of MM this coming Sunday August starting at 11AM and running until 6PM. Season 18 will begin airing weekly on the following Friday. From their email: "...Beginning at 11:00 am on Sunday August 15 on WTTW, you can binge the entire season 17 of Midsomer Murders. The following Friday, August 20 at 8:00 pm on WTTW, season 18 premieres and continues airing Friday evenings. " Enjoy!
  19. Guess I don't have the last CRT TV in existence after all. The off-white-everything doesn't appeal to me either, but I like a house that looks lived in, and this one definitely does. Thanks for keeping it real, Mr Pesci.
  20. A bit late in Replying, but ... Considering the hatchet job that PJ did on poor Faramir, maybe it's a Good Thing that he left Glorfy out of the films completely. NEVER diss a Lord of Gondolin (Salgant excepted). And will someone PLEASE explain the difference to Stephen between the pronunciation of "Gollum" (soft "o" like "on") and a "Golem" (long "o" like Goat) which Wikipedia describes as "In Jewish folklore, a golem (/ˈɡoʊləm/ GOH-ləm; Hebrew: גולם‎) is an animated anthropomorphic being that is created entirely from inanimate matter". The films' adherence to Tolkien's vision may have been flawed in places (!) but their adherance to his languages' pronunciation was pretty accurate. Otherwise, we love you, Stephen! (picks up her copy of the Silm and follows Misslucas out the door...)
  21. CNN showed a stunning commercial earlier this evening for Omega Co-Axial watch movements that just blew me away. Turns out the ad was first released in 2013 but I don't remember seeing it before. This is definitely one of those "turn UP the volume" ads. Not only does it have great visuals, but the music is gorgeous. It's listed as "Smiling" by Harry Gregson-Williams from a 2004 Denzel Washington action film "Man On Fire" but it doesn't sound like any action film score I've ever heard. It reminded me very much of the "Shire" themes from Howard Shore's Lord Of The Rings score. This one is well worth a minute of your time. https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7ocC/omega-co-axial
  22. Geico's commercials are probably some of the best on TV, and since I love to see actors making fun of their images, this one with John Stamos is my new favorite. I love the hair stroking at the end.
  23. I know it's an old post and the OP might not even be checking for replies any more. but... You'll probably have better luck just Googling "little dorrit forum or discussion" since that should have links for UK as well as US sites, and was more likely to be discussed in the UK. I just did and found quite a few links, but some of those might be for the book rather than the TV production. Good luck, if you're still looking.
  24. For everyone who simply dislikes or actually loathes the Liberty Mutual commercials and who also cares about what's happening to our planet (It IS Earth Day, after all, so excuse any references to politics and the environment) here's another reason to dislike them even more. From Rolling Stone (Yep, they're still around!) A coalition of climate justice organizations is targeting Liberty Mutual for underwriting fossil fuels https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/stop-the-money-pipeline-liberty-mutual-keystone-xl-986120/ "... Liberty Mutual is providing essential insurance to fossil fuel infrastructure giant TC Energy to enable construction of the dangerous Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline, which would carry extracted tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the U.S. Already, Liberty Mutual has provided a $15.6 million bond to cover the risks related to the construction of KXL through South Dakota..." "... Following a groundswell of grassroots pressure, Liberty Mutual adopted a policy restricting insurance for some coal companies in 2019, but the company continues to insure oil and gas with no restrictions and to invest billions in fossil fuels. At the same time, it is abandoning homeowners and farmers on the margins of climate change. The insurance industry is actively redlining large areas where people are experiencing the most severe impacts of climate change, including in wildfire-affected counties in California. In recent years, a Liberty Mutual spokesperson referred to dropping policies and raising rates as a “necessary step to responsibly manage our overall exposure to wildfires.” I'll let myself out ...
  25. Maybe they were inspired by this 2018 Royal Caribbean cruise filmed for a British reality TV program: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5846369/Cruise-ship-filmed-Channel-4-reality-descended-drug-fuelled-orgy.html "A cruise ship being filmed for a Channel 4 reality show allegedly descended into a 'drug-fuelled orgy' during a 'mad' week-long sojourn around the Mediterranean..."
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