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MichPlat
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Just watching Peaky Blinders from the start ..... it's a fairly recent program 2013 I think , so there's only TWO series of 6 eps so far .
This is a truly amazing series IMHO . *Over the years I've raved about The Sopranos , The Wire , Breaking Bad , Mad Men , The Tudors , Deadwood and more recently Boardwalk Empire , True Detective , Game of Thrones and Vikings BUT this is possibly my favourite of ALL !!
Superb writing , cast , acting , photography , locations everything is just to my taste . Even the background music is wonderful ...
Best of all its "based" on real people and real events rather like Boardwalk Empire and Deadwood
This is a truly amazing series IMHO . *Over the years I've raved about The Sopranos , The Wire , Breaking Bad , Mad Men , The Tudors , Deadwood and more recently Boardwalk Empire , True Detective , Game of Thrones and Vikings BUT this is possibly my favourite of ALL !!
Superb writing , cast , acting , photography , locations everything is just to my taste . Even the background music is wonderful ...
Best of all its "based" on real people and real events rather like Boardwalk Empire and Deadwood
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The Champions, Stuart Damon , the lovely, but sadly not with us any more , Alexandra Bastedo and William Gaunt And spot the celebrity
Watching The Persuaders, Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, two great actors who work well together
On a lighter note Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix is pretty good and seems to get better and darker as each episode passes.
Have to agree. It's sublime.
Pretty much any of the ITC shows beat today's offerings hands down but I suspect they won't be the OP's cup of tea (no silly camerawork, just good, tightly written stories).
If I were to recommend one for the OP it would be The Prisoner. The Persuaders! could have been an all time classic if Tony Curtis had bothered learning his lines instead of umming and arring and constantly landing Rog in it so I can't recommend that, and the 3 main leads in The Champions always seemed rather wooden to me.
However, for the ultimate in comedy, great stories and performances, and also very atmospheric with more than a touch of pathos, you can't beat the original Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased). I really urge you to watch it if you haven't already MichPlat. And even if you have, it's worth watching again - and again. Just make sure you don't confuse it with the poor Reeves and Mortimer remake.
I've just watched the 2nd season of the Americans, thats very good, and you seem to like the same sort of things I do.
Will 2nd/3d/4th Band of Brothers also worth a watch is the Pacific, (Band of Brothers in the Pacific) but concentrates a lot more on home life than B of B.
The Shield is very good and so is Burn Notice, both have finished now.
Scandal
Girlfreinds Guide to Divorce
Madam Secretary
Fortitude
The Blacklist
Backstrom
A new one iZombie looks like it could be fun and Last Man on Earth.
Don't know how I managed to miss it, but will now put it in the planner.
Thanks for that
Looking at some of the series you've previously liked, I believe you would enjoy the Italian series, Gomorrah , which was on Sky Atlantic last year.
Ashes To Ashes: dreadfully underrated just because it was the spin-off, any show that was going to be a spin-off from Life On Mars that didn't feature John Simm was always going to get the treatment of "it's not as good". However, although I do agree with that statement, I also think it was good in it's own right. Ok, I may have some problems with it (how it deals with each series and how they don't seem to connect), I still think it's really good. Each little storyline is dealt well with, the overall ending is beautifully done
And Keeley Hawes is a beautiful woman as well as a fine actress
Sony tv seem to be repeating Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes in a loop
I keep watching and enjoying
Something that made a star of this young lady can't be all that bad surely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBODcr0SpKw
(still gutted they didn't get the idea to do an Avengers remake 15-years ago, she would have made a great Emma Peel; by this time she had already worked with the real deal)
Uhmmm.....anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olSKmVsjFxg
(drama)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wu10CVeq2Y
(dark comedy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBLR8vGE_OE
(action)
Honourable mentions for Elementary and The Blacklist too.
Good point! I'm a big Emilia fan. Intelligent, talented, humorous......anyway, that's enough of me getting sidetracked. Spot on about The Avengers - she'd have made an excellent Emma Peel. And very good in Rebecca that you refer to - seen it numerous times on ITV3. Never a fan of Rigg as Peel though. Didn't like her smugness and I found her permanent smirk rather irritating and inappropriate.
Apologies for going OT Michplat. Like I said before though, you're probably into more modern stuff but I strongly recommend the original Randall And Hopkirk.
Ernest G Bilko is perhaps the greatest television comedy character ever created.
Although not shown widely these days, this show remains as fresh as when it was first written and produced in the 1950s. Unlike the comedy shows of today, this does not employ drag out scenes with very little laughter contained in them; nor does it rely on sexual innuendo or bad language. It is slick and uses a format that modern writers clearly haven't considered; i.e. it packs the show full of jokes.
If you have never seen it but can catch it on some channel somewhere, do take a look. It will make you smile, at the very least. Episodes are available on DVD.
Ambassadors - Mitchell & Webb as you've never seen them before. I honestly can't recommend it enough. The BBC need to stop stalling and make series 2.
Count Arthur Strong - Great sitcom yet nobody seems to have seen it. If you like Father Ted and IT Crowd then you will like this. Also it has Rory Kinnear!
The Harry Hill Show - So many people don't know about this series and think Harry Hill is defined by TV Burp, they're wrong because this is what I think of when I think Harry Hill. Unfortunately episodes are ridiculously hard to get hold of.