Last Telly You Watched

[karlhenning]

On DVD, I'm at last visiting the Fry & Laurie Jeeves series.  Somehow, when I first saw bits of them, back in the dark days of Buffalo, I was jarred by their presentation being other than my interior notions of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's personal gentleman.

Now, though, I simply admire the brilliance of Fry & Laurie in action.

[mn dave]

We taped Monday's THE MIDDLEMAN and watched it last night. This show's too smart to last. Sadly.

[Bogey]

Still working through Season 1 of Hogan's Heroes.  Also an occasional Jeremy Brett Holmes episode thrown in.

[hornteacher]

This is pretty much all I ever watch other than music concerts and the Olympics:

Granada's Sherlock Holmes
Doctor Who (Classic and New)
Fawlty Towers
Are You Being Served
All Creatures Great and Small
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US and UK)

[karlhenning]

Oh!  And I have very sporadically made my way through 9 episodes of Do Not Adjust Your Set.

[karlhenning]

Last two episodes of Do Not Adjust Your Set, which really closed on a strong, brilliant note.  Definitely trended upward towards Python.

[karlhenning]

Disc 2 of Season I of Jeeves & Wooster

[mahler10th]

Indycar and Nascar racing on Sky Sports.
Busch looks hot, he'll take the Nascar championship.
Scott Dixon looks like he'll do the same with Indycar.
Next weekend, Hockenhiem for the German F1 GP which I bet on Raikkonen winning.

Oh yes, Classical Music my first love, Motorsports my second.

[knight66]

Disc 2 of Season I of Jeeves & Wooster

We have the entire series, I never tire of them. A nice touch is when Laurie sings and plays the piano, he catches the 1920s style to perfection.

In slight contrast, having read about it, but not being able to see it broadcast, I have bought the first two series of 'The Wire', excellent. It has a bit of a slow burn and could do with a bit of editing down, but it is terrifically intelligent TV.

Mike

[karlhenning]

We have the entire series, I never tire of them. A nice touch is when Laurie sings and plays the piano, he catches the 1920s style to perfection.

I have no idea why this didn't catch for me Back in the Day, Mike. Now I know them for the pure delight they are.  I've got them coming in via Netflix, but I strongly suspect that purchase is in the future.

[karlhenning]

Apart from Bertie at the piano, there are wonderful organic "additions" to the text . . . Bertie speaking through a closed door (wishing to be incognito, and so pretending to be Jeeves) to a visitor who announces himself as Cyril.  And Laurie calls him by his nickname, Barmy, who then replies (with moderated feudal indignation), "Steady, Jeeves."

[knight66]

The entire cast is superb, especially the range of variously termagant Aunts. The telegraph messages are a hoot, stop....As long as War and Peace. Stop. As confused as blind mice in a maze. Stop, STOP!

Mike

[DavidRoss]

Finally getting around to Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica.  So far (two episodes) it doesn't hold a candle to the first two seasons, being short on plot, character, action, wit, intrigue, and even fetching shots of Tricia Helfer in slinky clothes. 

[drogulus]

     I just watched the first 1 1/2 episodes of John Adams. It's completely absorbing, even if the long, meaningful looks between Linney and Giamatti get to be a bit much. Then there's the exposition as dialog ("Do you realize, Jefferson, what this means?"....."Yes, Mr. Adams, I do. We need wait only two more days and we can have fireworks as well!"). And Tom Wilkinson is quite subtle in the way he presents Franklin. It's not just the usual wise old oracle routine.

[vandermolen]

My daughter bought me Season 1 and 2 of The Office for my birthday. Wonderfully, painfully embarrassing viewing but like Blackadder 3 and 4 and Alan Partridge, I'm sure that it will stand the test of time and eventually achieve cult status.

[karlhenning]

The Prisoner, "A Change of Mind"

[Daverz]

I think it was the last episode of The Riches.  I really enjoyed this show while it lasted.  There were only 7 episodes in the last season, and it just sort of ends, without a real finale.  Victim to the writers' strike and cancellation by FX, I suppose.

[rockerreds]

Foyle's War

[Hector]

A two hour documentary on the Qu'ran.

It tried to cover everything including a German professor of said book who has gone back to basics, maintains that language differences has led to misinterpretation to the extent, for example, that Paradise does not promise 72 virgins but a bunch of grapes.

I kid you not and the most dangerous part of this assumption is that it places Islam uncomfortably close to the older religion, Christianity!

He has received death threats...natch!

[rockerreds]

House rerun I hadn't seen the first time where he fires the clueless M.D. from the CIA.
Neall Ferguson on the second half of the 20th Century.