Quite Interesting - Disc 8

Quite Interesting is currently in its 9th series (the "I" series). All episodes are the uncut 44-minute "XL" broadcasts plus the short Comic Relief special from last March and an hour long special about the show that aired about 10 weeks back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quite_interesting

Midsomer Murders - Disc 18

Midsomer Murders - Disc 18
DCI Tom Barnaby has sailed off into the sunset and now cousin John is investigating the doings in Britain's most crime-infested fictitious county. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer_Murders

The Slap

The Slap is a new Australian drama show of 8 episodes (55 min.) based on the Christos Tsiolkas novel of the same name. It is also currently airing on BBC Four in the UK on Thursday nights and running a few weeks behind the Australian broadcasts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slap_%28TV_series%29

Emmerdale 2011 Disc 8

Emmerdale 2011.....Disc 8

The Walking Dead - Disc 1

The Walking Dead - Disc 1
The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_%28TV_series%29

Spy + Threesome

2 new comedies from the UK. From what I've read, I wouldn't be surprised if both of these return for second series in a year or so.


Spy stars Darren Boyd (Hippies, Kiss Me Kate, Los Dos Bros, Smack The Pony, Watching Ellie {US show}, Broken News, Green Wing, Saxondale, Little Dorrit, Personal Affairs, Whites, Case Sensitive), Dolly Wells (Star Stories, Free Agents, Campus), Mathew Baynton (Horne & Corden, Gavin & Stacey), Tom Goodman-Hill (The Office, The Worst Week Of My Life, Spoons, Broken News, My Family And Other Animals (film), Never Better, The Devil's Whore, Free Agents, Candy Cabs, Case Sensitive, Case Histories, Ideal, some recent Doc Martin eps), Rebekah Staton (State Of Play, Outlaws, Jane Eyre, Unforgiven, Tess Of D'Urbervilles, No Heroics, Pulling, Home Time, forthcoming new Wallander (UK) series), and Robert Lindsay (Get Some In!, Citizen Smith, Seconds Out, G.B.H., Nightingales, Jake's Progress, Jericho, My Family). 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_%282011_TV_series%29


Threesome stars Stephen Wight (Diamond Geezer, The Great Outdoors, Whites), Irish actress Amy Huberman, and Scottish actor Emun Elliott (Feel The Force, Paradox, Lip Service).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threesome_%28TV_series%29

Wild Boys

Wild Boys is an Australian period drama that takes place in the 1860s and in the western hemisphere would be called a "western". 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Boys_%28TV_series%29

Moving On - Series 3 (episodes 16-20)

The 3rd series of Moving On was aired this week (episodes 16-20 on Disc 2). Moving On is an anthology series of stand-alone dramas produced by Jimmy McGovern and featuring some very well known actors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_On_%28TV_series%29

Paul Temple

Paul Temple, a private detective slash crime novelist, began as a BBC radio serial in 1938 and made many returns right up through the 60's as well as several recent remakes. Four films were also made in the late 40's / early 50's and over a dozen novels have also appeared in the past 73 years. The character also had a large following in Germany with many German radio serials produced as well as an animated series. 
The TV program was co-produced by BBC and German broadcaster ZDF. 64 episodes were aired from 1969 to 1971 but only 11 episodes survive today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Temple_%28TV_series%29

Fresh Meat

Fresh Meat is, according to Channel 4, a comedy-drama. 
Wiki says this:
"Fresh Meat is a British sitcom created by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, who also created Peep Show. Fresh Meat marks the acting debut of comedian Jack Whitehall and also stars Kimberley Nixon (Cranford) and Joe Thomas (The Inbetweeners). The show revolves around the lives of six students who are freshers (with the exception of Howard) at the fictional Manchester Medlock University. They live in a shared house off-campus rather than university halls of residence."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Meat_%28TV_series%29

This Is Jinsy

This Is Jinsy is a recent comedy. A pilot was aired by BBC in 2010 but the series was carried by Sky.
It has an impressive list of guest stars (David Tennant, Peter Serafinowicz, Catherine Tate, Simon Callow, Nigel Planer, Jane Horrocks, Don Warrington, Marcia Warren, Brian Murphy...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_Jinsy

Rab C. Nesbitt update

Rab C. Nesbitt was back again. Rab has now been around for a long time, going back some 25 years to the sketch show Naked Video. He still has a ways to go to pass Alf Garnett in the longevity column though. I believe it was over 33 years between the Comedy Playhouse pilot for Till Death Us Do Part and the Australian show The Thoughts of Chairman Alf. 
Anyways, the 10th series of the Scottish sitcom ended last week. I was able to upgrade some of the files while at the same time reducing the number of discs (the Series 8 files I had were huge for some reason).
I'd still like to get this with hard coded subtitles someday, but I don't have all the episodes that way and still haven't been able to sort that process out anyways. But for those of you that understand the Glaswegian dialect, here's Rab from A to Z, including the 1992 Live in Aberdeen performance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab_C._Nesbitt 

Coronation Street - 2011 - Discs 7-8-9-10

Coronation Street - 2011 - Discs 7, 8, 9, 10

The Jury

In what must be a record for the longest hiatus, The Jury returned this week for a second series nearly 10 years after the first. (Come to think of it, I believe The Rag Trade was brought back after 15 years on the shelf and The Liver Birds after 16
+ years...so no broken records here.) Starring Julie Walters among other familiar faces. Series 1 was aired in the US on PBS Masterpiece. I have no idea if they'll be carrying Series 2.
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/pressreleases/programmepressreleases/thejury/default.html

EastEnders 2011 - Disc 10

EastEnders - 2011 Disc 10

Land Girls

Land Girls, the WWII period costume drama, returned for a 3rd series this week (Disc 2).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Girls_%28TV_series%29

they're back

A few comedies from mid-2010 have returned for second series. PhoneShop and Him And Her haven't worked their way into my viewing rotation yet, but another that returned starting tonight which did is Rev. I enjoyed series 1 and thought it had a really good cast (Tom Hollander & Olivia Colman with Lucy Liemann and Steve Evets). Pete vs Life is also back for another round.

Limmy's Show + The Morgana Show

Here's a couple of sketch shows that fell through the cracks.


Brian Limond's Limmy's Show returned to BBC Two Scotland last winter for a second series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limmy%27s_Show


Nearly a year ago now Morgana Robinson brought her comic talents to Channel 4 for five nights with her The Morgana Show.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morgana_Show


With Limmy needing a disc of his own Morgana can bunk up with bird of a feather Olivia Lee and her Dirty Sexy Funny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Sexy_Funny

Crownies - Disc 2

Crownies  - Disc 2.  Crownies is a current Australian legal drama-comedy. Our Timaru correspondent reports in that the 9 episodes on Disc 1 were very good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crownies

Underbelly: Razor

Razor, the new series of the popular Australian true-crime drama program Underbelly, concluded earlier today. I was really hoping this would fit onto one disc, but it won't, so I'm adding the recent New Zealand Underbelly series Land of the Long Green Cloud to the second disc. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly:_Razor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly_NZ:_Land_Of_The_Long_Green_Cloud

Downton Abbey - Disc 2

Downton Abbey's second series came to an end tonight but I believe there is going to be a Christmas special next month. It is now the most successful UK costume drama since Brideshead Revisited of 30 years ago, a fact sort of interesting to me as I have never traded a single disc of Brideshead that I can recall despite it also finding great success on PBS in these parts as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey

Waterloo Road - Disc 15

Waterloo Road - Disc 15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Road_%28TV_series%29

Casualty - Series 25 Disc 5

Casualty....Series 25 Disc 5 wrapping it up for 25 and kicking off Series 26.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualty_%28TV_series%29

The Vice

The Vice was yet another crime show. This one was about the London vice squad and starred Ken Stott (Your Cheatin' Heart, Takin' Over The Asylum, Rebus, The Runaway, his great role as Tony Hancock in Hancock & Joan, and will be in the two forthcoming films on The Hobbit), Caroline Catz (Preston Front, Doc Martin....yes, kind of hard imaging dear Looweezerrrr as a cop, but she also played one in The Bill and Murder In Suburbia), Tim Pigott-Smith (Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, The Jewel In The Crown, The Chief, North & South, Holby Blue, The Hour), David Harewood (Agony, Fat Friends, The Palace, The Last Enemy), Marc Warren (Ghostbusters Of East Finchley, Oliver Twist, Band Of Brothers, State Of Play, Hustle, Mutual Friends, Mad Dogs).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vice_%28TV_series%29

Smörgåsbord - Disc 33

This one is all Down Under. 1 from New Zealand and 4 from Australia.


Hook, Line And Sinker......from New Zealand
http://www.torchlightfilms.co.nz/hls


Oranges And Sunshine.....from Australia. One of the stars is British actress Emily Watson. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Sunshine


The Informant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1174037/


The King: The Graham Kennedy Story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_%282007_film%29


The River Kings
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101183/

Hidden + The Case

Hidden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_%28TV_series%29


The Case
From the BBC website:
"In this gripping legal drama, Tony Powell admits assisting his partner to end her life, but vigorously denies murder. Did he act out of love, or take cruel advantage of a dying woman?"

Alfred Hitchcock films

The films of Alfred Hitchcock....yes, off topic, but a project I started several years ago and finally got around to finishing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_filmography