Monday, March 31, 2014

Silk


The legal drama Silk returned for a third series. Starring Maxine Peake, Rupert Penry-Jones and Neil Stuke, there's no word on if it's to continue.
Silk

EastEnders 2014 - Disc 3


Sunday, March 30, 2014

Waterloo Road - Series 9



Long running school drama Waterloo Road completed its 9th series earlier this month. Unfortunately, it's about 2 episodes too many to squeeze onto 2 discs. 
Waterloo Road

Would I Lie To You? - Series 1-2-3

Would I Lie To You? - Series 1, 2 and 3.

The Walking Dead


The Musketeers

The Musketeers was the big new beebeecee drama offering this winter (in the northern hemisphere). It's slated to return with a second series sometime in the future.

Blandings returns

Blandings returned for a second series.

Fat Tony & Co.

Fat Tony & Co., Australian crime drama sequel to the first series of Underbelly.
Fat Tony & Co.

Rake - Disc 3

When Calls The Heart

Friday, March 28, 2014

Coronation Street 2014 - Disc 3


Bomb Girls

The Canadian drama serial Bomb Girls was unexpectedly cancelled about about a year ago without giving the creators and writers the opportunity to bring the story to a close, so a new, 90-minute episode, Facing The Enemy, was produced to end the story.
Bomb Girls

Stella - Disc 3

Ruth Jones and friends are back with a third series of her comedy-drama Stella. Stella is a blonde now, a nursing student, and, of course, all the dashing young men still have the hots for her. Why not? She can iron, she can drink and she can f.......................sorry, lost my train of thought. I forgot what I was typing. Anyway, as with past series, people come and people go. Deddie Davies and her donkey are back across the street this series. Elizabeth Berrington, Owen Teale and Julian Lewis Jones (except for the 10th episode) sat this one out while Steve Spiers was given a lot more face time.
Stella

Edge Of Heaven + The Walshes

Edge Of Heaven is a new comedy, with a big cast, about an extended family. 45 minute episodes.
Edge of Heaven

The Walshes is a new 3-episode Irish comedy created and written by the comedy group Diet of Worms and Graham Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd). Linehan also directed it.
The Walshes

Doll & Em + Inside No. 9

Two new comedies - both a bit more interesting than the standard fare thrown at us.

Doll & Em was created by, written by and stars lifelong friends Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer as themselves. It's a bit mundane, but in that sense is also quite believable. Almost anything not written by a roomful of gag writers seems refreshing to me.
Doll and Em

Inside No. 9 is a new one from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith (League of Gentlemen, Psychoville). Probably no need to identify this as black comedy. 
There is a 7th episode, titled The Inventors, available to watch online here:
7 - The Inventors
Inside No. 9

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Bluestone 42

BBC Three comedy Bluestone 42 returned with a Christmas special and a second series and will be airing a third sometime in the future, most likely in 2015.
Bluestone 42

The Streets of San Francisco













Complete set of the 1970's US police drama The Streets of San Francisco starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas.

more Moodys

Following up the Australian sitcom A Moody Christmas, the Moodys have returned with a new series of family disasters. 
A Moody Christmas
The Moodys Ride Again
The Moodys

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Pramface

BBC Three comedy Pramface has returned for a third series (episodes 14-19).
Pramface

Old Jack's Boat - Disc 2

More from the well-received children's show Old Jack's Boat with Bernard Cribbins, Janine Duvitski, Helen Lederer, Paul Hawkyard, Freema Agyeman, etc.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Del Boy and Rodney return

For the first time in over 10 years, Del Boy and Rodney Trotter have returned to the little screen in support of the Sport Relief charity appeal. It's only 10 minutes long and about 52 MB in size. If you'd like it added to a disc, let me know, or if you use Pando or Dropbox I'd be glad to e-mail it to you.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Moone Boy

Chris O'Dowd's Irish sitcom Moone Boy returned for a second series and will be mooning again next year with a third series.
Moone Boy

Girls - Disc 3

US comedy-drama Girls returned for a third series and next year will be back for a fourth.
Girls

Mr Selfridge - Disc 2

Mr Selfridge returned for a second series and will be selling more fridges next year when it returns for a third.
Mr Selfridge

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Emmerdale 2014 - Disc 3


House Husbands


House Husbands, or HouseHusbands....not sure which, is an Australian drama-comedy. It's third season should be kicking off shortly.
House Husbands

Black Sails

Black Sails - Disc 1

Perception

Perception - Disc 2

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Winners and Losers - Disc 6

The Australian drama Winners & Losers has completed its third season.
Winners & Losers

Monday, March 17, 2014

Salamander

Salamander is a thriller crime serial from Belgium. I had this as HD .mkv files for about a year, but they wouldn't convert to .avi without the audio progressively going out of sync as the files played.
Then I was able to get .mp4 files that would convert alright, except for episodes 5 & 6. Finally, different .mp4 files of those two episodes were obtained that converted without audio problems. Nearly all the dialogue is in standard Flemish with hard-coded English subtitles. The subtitles are nice and bold and the dialogue is not particularly fast and heavy.
Salamander

Friday, March 14, 2014

Jonathan Creek

Mystery drama Jonathan Creek, which made its debut nearly 17 years ago and has appeared only with a few feature-length specials in the past decade, has returned with a 5th series of 3 one hour episodes. Jonathan's female collaborator is now played by Sarah Alexander and, as usual, each episode features several well-known guest stars.
Jonathan Creek

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Outnumbered



Popular BBC comedy Outnumbered reached the end of its run last week with the conclusion of Series 5 (episodes 29 - 34 on Disc 2).
Outnumbered