Not sure if its been duscussed here already but I’m binge watching Tour de France Unchained at the moment. Still on series 1. Its the same model as the F1 thingy
I think its excellent asit flips between interviews, and action sequences etc. It seems to have a lot of unseen footage. To me anyways. The crashes are nuts.
Serious question.
Does it cover the use of performance enhancing drugs?
If not, it’s dishonest.
No, and I am not convinced of the latter either but I know you cant rule it out either. It’s both fantastic that there’s one guy that is rewriting the sport and isn’t an asshole, but worrying that the gap between him and and the rest is so huge.
First series, so far there’s been little on Pog. It’s as if they didnt get access to him.
Still I’m finding it enjoyable, and its always a good discussion point with guys at work as I’m surrounded by ultra marathon runners, iron man people, runners, fell runners, mountain bikers efc.
I am enjoying MurderBot on Apple.
Where can you get one? Asking for a friend.
Apple - your local greengrocer 
Murderbot = meet my wife
Anyone watching Shifty, the new Adam Curtis documentary? Damn, it’s a grim (excellent though!)
It’s on BBC iPlayer, well worth a watch imho
Squid Game is back for the third and supposedly final season. It absolutely pissed it down here all day yesterday so I binged may through it. Unfortunately, it was a real disappointment.
I was really pleasantly surprised by how worthwhile the second season was given it was difficult to see where they could go with the story, but I thought they pulled it off really well. The show does a really good job of introducing good characters with real clarity about who are they and what their motivations are and that carried the second series. This time around with no new characters to introduce it all just felt tired. It was a much needed end to a high concept idea without much room inside it to explore any more than it already had.
really couldnt get into squid games…just didnt click for me.
didnt bother with season two, really dont like the premise… or the execution
I’m three episodes in and the CGI on two things in particular had me in absolute stitches, laughably bad.
I dont really like gore but found season 1 of squid games really addictive. I dont feel i can bring myself to go through season 2 or 3 of that though.
Just watched penultimate episode of Murderbot. I love this show, its been great fun.
I’ve also just started season 2 of Shrinking. I think that show is great.
Some may remember this being groundbreaking at the time…
*ITV is bringing back the iconic 7 Up documentary series with its tenth film, 70 Up, set to air in 2026. *
*The series, which began in 1964, has followed the same group of people every seven years, giving a unique look at their lives from childhood to now. *
Though director Michael Apted passed away in 2021, production on the new installment started last month.
You can catch up on the whole 7 Up Collection now on ITVX.
Apple just announced they have approved S7 of Slow Horses, with S5 coming in a few weeks and S6 already in production.
Buster Merryfield used to be a bank manager with the Nat West until he retired in 1978 at the age of 65 and decided to do what he’d always wanted to do and that was to be an actor. Luck was obviously with him for he ended up in the part of Uncle Albert in the long running television series in Only Fools and Horses resulting in him never being out of work since leaving the bank. In his spare time he paints copies of Renoir and tends the garden which he designed. He was married to Iris and had a daughter, Karen.
He had limited television experience before Only Fools and Horses (1981), and as a result, he was very nervy in his early days on the show. At first, he would crash into the audience (deliver his lines without waiting for the audience laughter to die down first), and had to re-record his scenes. Merryfield would than dry up and lose his words and it would get to him. David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst sat him down for a talk. He was worried he wouldn’t last. Whenever they made mistakes in the middle of a recording, they would blame someone and make it into a joke. If you could make the audience think you don’t care, they relax and they feel like part of the joke. After that, he cracked his problem, relaxed into the show and the new partnership and became the lovable Uncle Albert.
I’m sure that I read somewhere that he had the beard for another part he was playing and the producers thought it fitted the part so he kept it.
Saw Northern Exposure is on Prime so watched the first two episodes last night. I don’t think I have watched that show since the 90’s, I absolutely loved it. Watching it last night brought back some of the same tingly feelings I had first time round.
Also watched the final episode of Murderbot. The way it was scripted, they could have easily ended it at the end of episode 9. It was just announced last week that Apple have commissioned a second season, I’m really happy at that but just hope it doesn’t struggle to deliver as some shows do when they have to find a new angle to come at the story from.
Northern Exposure and Homicide are the two classic oldies I missed first time around I really want to put some time into
Instead of doing that though I started Smoke on Apple - its laughably shit. Well, less the show, and more Taron Egerton making it borderline unwatchable. The only thing making it worth continuing with is the experiencing of being forced to cover your eyes with your hands in second hand embarrassment for how bad a performance it is. I want to like him because he grew up in Aberystwyth, but I have never seen actor get so much high profile work who is so incapable of not displaying the stage direction on his face as he’s processing what he’s required to do in his totally hammed up scene.
