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Moving On - BBC1 - 14.00
Suburbanqueen
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I watched this today and it was very touching and beautifully acted. Why on earth is this series on in the afternoon? It deserves an evening slot......I will have to watch the others on i-player. What did you all think?
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Very touching topic I thought.
More of this quality tv is needed instead of some of the rubbish that's thrown at us.
Personally I think it would have been nice to see the real Dad, and the other guy meeting the daughter from school together?
Maybe I just want happier endings. Still, I did feel it was a bit unrealistic.
Full credit to the Beeb : it's great to see quality drama on the channel.
Anne, in her early forties, is divorced with one grown up son, Chris. She gave up work a couple of years ago to care for her mother Bella, who's suffering from Alzheimers. It's difficult, but she copes - even though her self-obsessed sister Lynne offers as little help as she can get away with. Anne has very few opportunities to meet another man, and has no social life to speak of.
Not enough hours in the day to keep up with this, even though it sounds like there are some quality actors involved.
Edit: To the OP's question Why on earth is this series on in the afternoon? It deserves an evening slot
Why should those watching TV during the day not get a quality/interesting/challenging product?
Especially considering how the unemployment figures are due to rise, we'll need something proper to watch during the day.
Maybe the BBC should promote it in the evenings for those might want to catch-up via Iplayer.
Then again the BBC isn't very good at promoting it's own product, especially BBC4's output IMO.
I've done a google search of the lyrics but no joy. It wasn't listed on the credits at the end of the programme.
Lyrics in the chorus went:
'Ring those bells, for now I'm coming home. My search is done, you know I'm growing old.'
TIA
I have V+ a few of them which I have yet to watch.
Really good powerful stories.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00w0b50/hd/Moving_On_Series_2_Losing_My_Religion/
I've just watched that ep now. I was bawling my eyes out:(
I know someone who went through something similar.
It was quite sad at times, shame they didn't use a better actor to portray Jamie. Still, Nico is nice to look at:D.
I agree that these could be on primetime and do very well!
Having said that they are timeless on the whole so when the celebrity-obessed bubble has burst maybe they'll be given a deserved primetime slot.
Look, here link to the first series and you'll see how the programs were repeated on BBC one in the 22:30 slot and a few other slots.
They'll still be 'timeless' in a few months when they'll probably get their nighttime repeat.
I don't know what celeb obsessed culture has got to do with the scheduling of this either.
If TV was that celeb obsessed it wouldn't have been greenlighted in the first place.
What is the point you're trying to make?
Isn't it a good thing that there's some quality drama being aired during daytime?