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
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
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.
Friday, March 28, 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Moody Christmas
The Moodys Ride Again
The Moodys
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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
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
Mr Selfridge
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
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
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
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
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
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
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