Great British Railway Journeys

Great British Railway Journeys

Still Open All Hours

Following up on the 2013 Boxing Day special, Still Open All Hours returned for a series. David Jason, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Lynda Baron and Stephanie Cole all return from the original 70's / 80's show. (No, Barbara Flynn does not return as a 66 year old flirty milk float lady). New faces include Brigit Forsyth, Johnny Vegas, James Baxter {as Granville's son Leroy}, Tim Healy, Nina Wadia, Sally Lindsay, Kulvinder Ghir, and appearances by Mark Williams, Paula Wilcox, Vicki Pepperdine, Kathryn Hunt....and Alan David has a scene walking past Arkwright's store. I could do that. How do you get those jobs? I'm about a foot taller than Alan and would be more noticeable. Still open...and still written by Roy Clarke and as with the first (1976) series of Open All Hours, there's still room for growth. There's a lot of good characters if they can figure out what to do with them. Ollerenshaw and Forsyth's characters have good chemistry and were a bit underused. I enjoyed the few scenes when Granville does a hard-sell and very obviously channels Del Boy much more than Arkwright. 
Still Open All Hours

Holby City - Series 17 Disc 1

Emmerdale 2015 - Disc 1

Father Brown - Disc 3

Period (1950's) amateur detective crime drama Father Brown returned for a third series of fifteen 45-minute episodes. Starring Mark Williams, Sorcha Cusack, Hugo Speer and a cast of dozens.........
Father Brown

Suspects

Crime drama Suspects returned for a third series.

Suspects

American Horror Story - Disc 4

American Horror Story

Foyle's War - Disc 6 and another one bites the dust

Foyle's War has returned with 3 new feature-length episodes that bring the story up to the autumn of 1946 and January 1947.  Unfortunately, that is the end of the story (which begins in spring 1940 over 14 years ago) as ITV has pulled the plug on it claiming it is too expensive to produce.
Foyle's War
 

Ascension + Charlie + Mapp & Lucia (2014)

A trio of recent three-parters.....and that is about all they have in common.

Ascension is a Canadian science fiction mystery drama.
Ascension

Charlie is an Irish biographical drama about political strongman Charles Haughey.
Charlie

Mapp & Lucia is a remake (but new stories) of the popular mid-80's comedy drama. Written by Steve Pemberton, who also stars in the role of Georgie Pillson (played by Nigel Hawthorne in the 80's), Miranda Richardson as Mapp (played by Prunella Scales in the 80's), Anna Chancellor as Lucia (played by Geraldine McEwan in the 80's) with an excellent supporting cast that includes Mark Gatiss, Felicity Montagu, Paul Ritter, Pippa Haywood, Katy Brand, Gemma Whelan, Joanna Scanlan, Frances Barber.
Mapp and Lucia (2014)

Coronation Street 2014 - Disc 11

Doctor Who - The First Doctor - William Hartnell - 1963-1966

All episodes with a {R} are reconstructions of lost episodes using the original audio track with production stills and existing film clips.
Episodes with an {A} are reconstructions of lost episodes using the original audio track with animation based on production stills.

This completes the 1963 - 2014 run of Doctor Who and those of you that enjoy the Doctor here owe a big 'ol hip-hip-hooray to Mancunian Ken for very generously sharing his massive collection. Not only is it complete, but it's also top quality and not sourced from boxes of old nth-generation video tapes.  

Doctor Who - The Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton 1966-1969

All episodes with a {R} are reconstructions of lost episodes using the original audio track with production stills and existing film clips.
Episodes with an {A} are reconstructions of lost episodes using the original audio track with animation based on production stills.

EastEnders 2014 - Disc 11

Major Crimes - Disc 5

Major Crimes

Ripper Street - Disc 3

Oops.......forgot all about this.

Ripper Street 

Disc 3

Ripper Street

Questions update

Father Brown began its third series this afternoon. There are conflicting reports on whether it's to be the usual 10 episodes, or 15. If it's 10, then it should end on 16 January.

Also, a few people have asked me about the third series of Lilyhammer. I've obtained 4 different sets of it and 3 of them have either numerous video glitches, audio issues or subtitle problems. The only set that doesn't has no subtitles, so if you speak Norwegian, it's good to go. 

Questions

I receive a lot of questions from people here in the US and Down Under. Maybe this will answer some of them.

David Jason in Still Open All Hours - new series follow up to the  2013 Boxing Day special - should end around the end of the month.
Yes, Last Tango In Halifax is back with a new series. Should end in early February.
Foyle's War is back with 9th series. Concludes around the middle of this month.
QI has been back with the "L" series since early autumn. The 14th episode will air next week. They may withhold the last two episodes for airing later in the year. Not sure. They've done that before.
Broadchurch is back for a second series. It should end around the end of February.
Silent Witness is back for an 18th series. Ends in early February.
Count Arthur Strong returns for a second series. Ends around mid-February.
Would I Lie To You Series 8 ends this week with a compilation episode.
Birds of a Feather is back. Ends in mid-February.
Death In Paradise begins its 4th series which concludes near the end of February.
The Musketeers second series ends early March.
Benidorm's 7th series ends mid-February.
Stella and Call The Midwife usually begin in mid-January and end sometime in March.
Yes, Inspector George Gently is supposed to be returning again, but I don't know when.
Yes, there will be 4 new Midsomer Murders episodes sometime this year. Not sure when.
Yes, Father Brown is returning for a third series, but I don't know when.
Yes, Sherlock is returning, but it won't be until the end of the year.
There no word on if Blandings is returning for a third series. Spall keeps pretty busy these days.
Silk has ended and not returning.
Hebburn is not returning....which is too bad.
The Bletchley Circle is not returning.
Bluestone 42 is supposed to be returning for a 3rd series later this year.
Pramface is not returning.
Yes, Mr. Selfridge is returning for a third series sometime this year.
Yes, Moone Boy will have a third series. Don't know when.
Yes, Vera, the world's oldest chief inspector detective, will be returning again sometime this year.
Endeavour should be returning for a third series, but it won't be anytime soon.
Shetland is returning with a third series, but it probably won't be until 2016 or later this year.
WPC 56 will be returning for a third series and probably quite soon.

Down Under:
The Doctor Blake Mysteries has had production of a third series funded, but no word on when it may return. Same with Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

Also, the 5th series of the French thriller Engrenages {aka Spiral} should be available around the middle of February.

McLeod's Daughters

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specials

Christmas specials.......available only until the end of the month

Rose And Maloney

2002 - 2005 crime drama Rose and Maloney starring Sarah Lancashire and Phil Davis....along with some good guest stars.

Rose and Maloney

Mrs. Brown's Boys update

Mrs. Brown's Boys returned with two new episodes this holiday week and that will do it for now. No word on another series or anything. Unfortunately, Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie will not fit on either disc. They are both full.

Mrs. Brown's Boys