What new TV are you watching?

What new TV are you watching?

Postby John-Nor on Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:53 pm

In this Film & TV forum, we have these two threads already:

What films are you watching?

For films in general.

What old TV are you watching?

For old TV in general. TV DVDs.


I'm starting this third thread...

What new TV are you watching?

For new TV in general. Broadcast TV of the near future or recent past.

A thread in which interesting forthcoming broadcast TV can be noted.


I will be watching Bonekickers tonight.

It is a six-part drama series featuring a team of archaeologists, from Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah, the writers and creators of Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes.

Bonekickers
Tuesday 8 July
9.00-10.00pm BBC ONE
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Re: What new TV are you watching?

Postby Pex on Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:05 pm

This is the last time you'll see me in this thread. I haven't watched any live TV since the news during the floods last summer.

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Re: What new TV are you watching?

Postby Waz on Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:47 pm

I'm watching Bonekickers right now.

And it's one of the most badly written piles of shit I've ever had the misfortune to watch.

Half an hour in and every single cliche has been trotted out. Clash with head of faculty check. "Give up your secrets", check. Issues with your mother, check. Bon viveur loveable professor, check. New student who messes up, check. Prickly leader with issues, check. No dialogue, just people speaking in statements. One dimensional Muslims good, Christians bad bullshit. Terrible waste of a half decent cast (although they all look terribly but rightly embarrassed to be there). Who is that awful woman and why do they keep shoehorning stuff about her mother into it. What on earth are Bonneville and Lester doing? That plonker Maloney seems to be channelling Kenneth Williams. It's unbelievable that something this bad, this hackneyed ever got commissioned, and it's surely only on the record of the people behind it. Well they've blotted their copybook now. Awful stuff. I mean what on earth are those guys doing running around dressed up as Templers for?

Some bloke just got his head lopped off. I wonder if they'd have the balls to characterise Muslims in such an appalling fashion? Of course not.

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Re: What new TV are you watching?

Postby Sidesk on Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:37 pm

I saw pt 1 of The Visit last week, having not seen it on BBC3 originally. Seemed quite good, though whether that will sustain is another matter. Jokes of the calibre of "the church is always getting robbed. They take anything that's not nailed down." "Jesus is safe, then." are plenty for me. Actually, that might be a bad example. Oh well...
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Re: What new TV are you watching?

Postby MatSmith on Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:25 pm

Waz wrote:I'm watching Bonekickers right now.

And it's one of the most badly written piles of shit I've ever had the misfortune to watch.

And, as an Archaeologist, I now know what Doctors must feel like when they're forced to watch Casualty. C14 dates on the night? What appears to be the best equipped archaeology lab in the world? Can you only become an archaeologist if you have unresolved parental issues? "You let a layman help you?" "Give up your secrets"?! Christ on a bike...

:<


Although the 'pervert' old bloke and 'bitch-battleaxe' were accurate and common characters in the field.
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Re: What new TV are you watching?

Postby Edzeppelin on Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:31 pm

Just got the fifth series of Peep Show on DVD. Not many belly-laughs, but brilliantly observed as ever.
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Re: What new TV are you watching?

Postby Judge_Nutmeg on Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:48 am

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: not actually on the telly, but it's episodic and written by Joss Whedon, so this is just as good a place to mention it as any. For starters, it's a musical, and if you didn't like "Once More With Feeling", this probably won't win you over. I did, yet I'm not sure about this first episode. The songs seem to get in the way, more than anything. One or two chuckles in the dialogue, mind.
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Re: What new TV are you watching?

Postby Pex on Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:04 pm

And, as an Archaeologist, I now know what Doctors must feel like when they're forced to watch Casualty


Does Stones of Blood cause you equal professional pain?

The equivalent for me are ludicrous hacking scenes - computers being switched on remotely, then hacked into; big green screens that say ACCESS GRANTED.
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Re: What new TV are you watching?

Postby Knightmare on Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:49 pm

I caught the last third of the first episode of Bonekickers...I agree with Waz, it was dreadful. It felt childish in the way it treated the subject matter...and the audience for that matter. It also illustrated for me how closely modern British (particularly BBC) drama resembles Hollywood film styles. I'm convinced that the people working in British TV land today look to Hollywood movies for inspiration and general direction. The results usually being scripts that lack any real substance with OTT action and unnescessary, overpowering music. The end bit was like Indiana Jones! The [relatively] new TV that I watch is the stuff from the States...CSI repeats (original series/Las Vegas)...Medium (I loved this show but I've heard it went downhill after the second season)...I've been catching a few of Brothers and Sisters lately. I don't know much about it but it seems well made and Sally Field is always good. I've only seen about five odd episodes but I'll check out some more for sure.
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Re: What new TV are you watching?

Postby Lance on Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:59 pm

"10 Years Younger". And complete crap it is too. Thank kroll it's only going in the background, eh readers?
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