Monday, October 29, 2012

New Tricks - Disc 10

New Tricks - Disc 10. Ol' misery guts has left the show and been replaced by Denis Lawson. It's returning next summer for another series but after that Redman and Armstrong are also leaving with only Waterman remaining from the original cast. 
New Tricks

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Connie


Connie is a 1985 drama series starring Stephanie Beacham (just before her role in the US show The Colby's.) 
Connie
Stephanie recently appeared as the new store manager in the first 8 episodes of the current series of Trollied, which gave it a nice lift.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Haven - Disc 3

Haven is back with a third season. This supernatural drama, loosely based on the Stephen King book The Colorado Kid, is filmed in Nova Scotia and aired on the Syfy channel in the US and UK, and is also aired in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and in many other countries.
Haven

The Thick Of It - Disc 3

The Thick Of It, the popular political satire, returned for a fourth series.
The Thick of It

Winners & Losers - Disc 3

Winners & Losers - Disc 3 - more from the Australian drama.
Winners & Losers

Coronation Street 2012 - Disc 10

Coronation Street 2012 - Disc 10 - the latest from 'Weatherfield' and Britain's most-watched show.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Sadie, It's Cold Outside + Yanks Go Home

2 comedies from the 70's.

Sadie, It's Cold Outside was written by Jack Rosenthal (who in addition to writing many TV episodes, TV plays and movies, wrote The Dustbinmen, The Lovers, a series of Pardon The Expression, Moving Story) and starred Rosemary Leach (Susan's mother in My Family, Odd Socks, The Power Game, Life Begins at Forty, The Jewel in the Crown, The Charmer, Summer's Lease, Titmuss Regained, Berkeley Square, The Tomorrow People, the US sitcom Growing Pains, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman) and Bernard Hepton (The Charmer, Bleak House, Mansfield Park, Secret Army, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Colditz, The Six Wives of Henry VIII).
Sadie is about a bored and discontented mid-life wife with a bored-but-contented husband. Sounds similar to Butterflies (which it pre-dates) but Sadie didn't have a Leonard to torment and her children are no longer part of her life.
Sadie It's Cold Outside

Yanks Go Home took place during WWII and was about a Lancashire town and its interactions with the many American military personnel based there. With the final 6-episode series of Dad's Army in production when Yanks first aired, it seems Granada was in hopes of picking up some of the huge Dad's audience, but it didn't work out that way in the end.
With Meg Johnson (on Emmerdale for the past decade), Stuart Damon (who starred in the late 60's spy show The Champions and more recently in several American soaps), David Ross (the final episode of Last of the Summer Wine, The Green Green Grass, Roger Roger, 32 Brinkburn Street, G.B.H.), Alan MacNaughton (To Serve Them All My Days, The Sandbaggers). Peter Sallis (Last of the Summer Wine) appears in four episodes and Richard Wilson (not going to list them all) appears in two. 
Yanks Go Home

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Rake - Series 2

Rake, the popular Australian legal comedy-drama from 2010, returned for a second series.
Rake

Maggie And Her

Maggie And Her, the late 70's comedy with Julia McKenzie (Fresh Fields, French Fields, Marple, That Beryl Marston, Blott on the Landscape, Cranford) and Irene Handl (For The Love Of Ada, Never Say Die, Metal Mickey) is now complete and not from old video tapes.
Maggie and Her

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Girls

Girls is a US comedy-drama that aired last Spring and just started airing in the UK last night on Sky Atlantic and has also previously aired in Canada on HBO-Canada, in Australia on Showcase, in New Zealand on SoHo and in quite a few other non-English speaking countries. It will be back next year for another series. I see Chris O'Dowd even turns up in a couple of these episodes. No wonder we're still waiting on that final episode of The IT Crowd.
Girls

Monday, October 22, 2012

Copper

Copper is a new period crime drama set in 1860's New York City.
Copper

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Casualty - Series 27 Disc 1

Concluding Series 26 in July and kicking off Series 27 in August, the latest from the popular BBC Saturday evening drama Casualty.
Casualty

Friday, October 19, 2012

Micawber + The Way We Live Now

Micawber + The Way We Live Now

Micawber is nothing new here, but I've had The Way We Live Now sitting around for a year or two and finally got around to doing something with it.

Micawber is a comedy-drama take on the character from David Copperfield. Written by the late John Sullivan and starring David Jason.

The Way We Live Now is an adaptation of the 1875 satirical novel by Anthony Trollope starring David Suchet (of Poirot fame) with a stellar cast. As I recall, this was also aired in the US on PBS Masterpiece about 10 years ago.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Mount Pleasant

The comedy-drama Mount Pleasant returned for a second series with Robson Green, David Bradley (A Family At War, Our Friends In The North, The Wilsons, Our Mutual Friend, The Way We Live Now, Wild West, Ideal, Prisoner's Wives, the Harry Potter films, World Without End), and James Dreyfus (The Thin Blue Line, My Hero, Gimme Gimme Gimme) added to the already impressive cast. 9 new episodes but the 10th and last in the current series will be aired as a Christmas special in a couple months. If you can't wait that long, the 9 new episodes are available.
Mount Pleasant