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Old 25-12-2016, 23:57
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I think this is more "afternoon telly" as was "The Coroner," and "Dr. Blake."

The plot was ludicrous, as if the MOD would have held on to a village in a rural area surrounded by all the other "Midsomers," for seventy years. The strategically placed ammunition boxes and jerry cans reminded me of the props used in Strictly Come Dancing.
Still it was harmless entertainment,...of a sort.

Neil Dudgeon should get back to chauffeuring, the limit of his acting capabilities.
I loved MM with John Nettles (bought the 13 series he did on DVD) but I just can't get into it with ND. I start watching an episode, but I can never make it through to the end! So I don't bother watching at all now.
Still, there are 13 series of Tom and family to watch when I feel like watching a MM!
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Old 27-12-2016, 17:41
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Because they're there? Why would you go to all the trouble of getting a whole load of different extras for every episode when they're going to go unnoticed and unremarked upon. It's entirely normal for extras to appear in several episodes of something not least because scenes are often shot out of sequence not just within an episode but across a series. If you're shooting a particular location you get it all out of the way in one session. You don't keep popping back. So you use the extras you've got on the day. A friend of mine from Oxford student days appears in 3 different episodes of Morse, for example, out of a single day's shooting.
Thank you, that was what I was wondering. Did not know it was nomal.
My son is a movie actor, and I worked as an extra on many films back in my days. But I did not know about the use of extras in series.
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Old 27-12-2016, 17:48
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so that was one Commissioner from New Tricks

a superintendent from Scott and Bailey

and a WPC from the Bill

plus a travelling comedian for hire

did I miss anyone?
Who also played Chris Barrie's wife in The Brittas Empire
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Old 30-12-2016, 15:16
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Sadly, the series continues to disappoint. Keep watching every new episode in the increasingly vain hope that things will improve but ....

Dudgeon is still a very effective remedy for insomnia, works every time.

Still the pointless and irrelevant inclusion of a pointless canine. And, worse, allowing very young children and animals to get so close. Are they desperate to fill time or to cover up the paucity of the acting and weakness of the storyline?

For me, like others on here, "old" Barnaby is still the best.
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Old 03-01-2017, 16:26
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Maybe you weren't concentrated enough when watching and reading, but Paddy is the dog. He did not go to school, that is correct. But he also did not attend the police course.

That course was strictly non-canine.


Woof!
You mean i can not send my dog on it. He would have passed and come top of the class. He would sniff out the culprits in no time.

On the other question you asked about Dogs around small children. I thought the same and i am a dog lover. When first introducing a strange dog that you don't now how they will behave. So i would have done it differently. When my nephew plays with my dog he is ten i am always with them.
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Old 04-01-2017, 20:06
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Richard Bucket in tonight's episode
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Old 04-01-2017, 20:22
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I love the ludicrous nature of MM and therefore still love it, as it's got even more ludicrous IMO. I'm also probably in the minority in liking ND's Barnaby too lol
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Old 04-01-2017, 20:29
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2 detectives solve murder cases all by themselves.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:10
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I love the ludicrous nature of MM and therefore still love it, as it's got even more ludicrous IMO. I'm also probably in the minority in liking ND's Barnaby too lol
I'm in the minority too!

Not too sure about the new Jack Russell though! He's trying too hard! I miss Sykes!
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Old 04-01-2017, 22:05
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I love the ludicrous nature of MM and therefore still love it, as it's got even more ludicrous IMO. I'm also probably in the minority in liking ND's Barnaby too lol
This series must be played for laughs, surely ? !
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Old 04-01-2017, 22:07
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I used to love MM, it was so quintessentially eccentric, with shades of marple and old fashioned whodunnits.

This new series, seems to be trying far too hard to be modern and politically correct, shoehorning in characters just for the sake of it, and storylines which just do not fit with the original concept.
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Old 04-01-2017, 22:19
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2 detectives solve murder cases all by themselves.
2 detectives and a forensic pathologist. If you're going to mock at least get it right!
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Old 04-01-2017, 22:21
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I liked this better when it included Joyce and Cully,

"The two best actors, with opportunities for rise taking, for their unnecessary inclusion in the plots "
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Old 04-01-2017, 22:22
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storylines which just do not fit with the original concept.
A few people get killed, lots of people get suspected, Barnaby nabs the culprit. Where and how has the storyline deviated from that?
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Old 04-01-2017, 22:31
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I used to love MM, it was so quintessentially eccentric, with shades of marple and old fashioned whodunnits.

This new series, seems to be trying far too hard to be modern and politically correct, shoehorning in characters just for the sake of it, and storylines which just do not fit with the original concept.
I'm probably putting my foot in it, but they seem to have quite a lot of people from ethnic minorities for such a remote village !
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:23
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I'm probably putting my foot in it, but they seem to have quite a lot of people from ethnic minorities for such a remote village !
I noticed that, but that's TV culture these days. Disproportionate numbers of ethnic minorities...everywhere.
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Old Yesterday, 00:28
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Not sure about the new DS yet. He's got quite a nice bum though.
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Old Yesterday, 08:53
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I'm probably putting my foot in it, but they seem to have quite a lot of people from ethnic minorities for such a remote village !
There's a thread about this on here somewhere.
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Old Yesterday, 09:13
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I miss Sykes. I certainly don't miss Joyce and Cully!
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Old Yesterday, 09:30
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Richard Bucket in tonight's episode
...and Julie from Corrie, although I'm not quite sure I've recovered from seeing her in a PVC catsuit brandishing a whip in the hotel room...
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Old Yesterday, 09:52
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Not sure about the new DS yet. He's got quite a nice bum though.
How tight are his trousers He also reminds me of a young Tom Hanks.

Wherever they film this it is beautiful.
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Old Yesterday, 10:58
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I loved MM with John Nettles (bought the 13 series he did on DVD) but I just can't get into it with ND. I start watching an episode, but I can never make it through to the end! So I don't bother watching at all now.
Still, there are 13 series of Tom and family to watch when I feel like watching a MM!
I miss Ben Jones the most. It really went down hill after he left.
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Old Yesterday, 11:25
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I watched the first five minutes of this and then said to myself, "I can't....... I really can't" and deleted my recording.
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Old Yesterday, 13:38
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Why was the butcher killed ? Did I miss something ?
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Old Yesterday, 13:45
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I certainly don't miss Cully!
I'm guessing you're a girly

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