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Uber_Hoop said:
Don’t we all watch a lot of telly!

I haven’t peeked at ‘Killing Eve’ yet and will now also look at ‘Chernobyl’. Has anyone watched ‘Summer of Rockets’ and can give their view of it, please?

Was away most of the weekend, but watched a programme ‘The Interviews’ which told the story of Kenneth Williams through excerpts of interviews with the great man. Extraordinary how the public persona and private man were so very different, as is often the case with such talents.

Ooh, matron!
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Killing Eve is fab - nice mix of semi-serious drama and humour. Great performances by Comer, and particularly Sandra Oh, of Korean descent, whom I thought was superb. Just watched the first episode of Chernobyl. Promising.

Summer of Rockets is getting some poor reviews because the way Poliakoff wrote it, it's based on little fact apparently. Shame.

Kenneth Williams is masterful, but I find it difficult to get over the fact that he almost certainly poisoned his father to death. What is it with the animosity between gay performers (eg Elton John) and their fathers?
 
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Uber_Hoop said:
Don’t we all watch a lot of telly!

I haven’t peeked at ‘Killing Eve’ yet and will now also look at ‘Chernobyl’. Has anyone watched ‘Summer of Rockets’ and can give their view of it, please?

Was away most of the weekend, but watched a programme ‘The Interviews’ which told the story of Kenneth Williams through excerpts of interviews with the great man. Extraordinary how the public persona and private man were so very different, as is often the case with such talents.

Ooh, matron!
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Get yourself into killing eve uber
Bloody brilliant tv
Watched series one and two over two weeks
Can't wait till series three although I will have to watch it as it screens
One episode per week
Binge watching can be so much more satisfying
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
Kenneth Williams is masterful, but I find it difficult to get over the fact that he almost certainly poisoned his father to death. What is it with the animosity between gay performers (eg Elton John) and their fathers?
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I'd not heard of that previously, Goldie, so just now Googled it. Very interesting. Chemical cleaner stored in a cough medicine bottle.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1082192/Did-Kenneth-Williams-poison-father.html

Frying inside! (Sorry).
 
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Uber_Hoop said:
I'd not heard of that previously, Goldie, so just now Googled it. Very interesting. Chemical cleaner stored in a cough medicine bottle.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1082192/Did-Kenneth-Williams-poison-father.html

Frying inside! (Sorry).
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Yes, the police took the likelihood of his involvement seriously, and as your article said, he was denied access into the US, and I think a cloud of suspicion hung over his professional career thereafter. May be guilt got the better of him, because he killed himself in his early 60's.
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
What is it with the animosity between gay performers (eg Elton John) and their fathers?
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One can only assume that this is a generational trait. When Williams was "coming out", homosexuality was still a criminal offence. It would have been abhorent to his working class father that his son was a "namby pamby" as he called him.

I'm pretty sure that homophobia, whilst not totally eradicated, is much less of an issue in the 21st Century, especially within the family group.
 
Steelmonkey said:
One can only assume that this is a generational trait. When Williams was "coming out", homosexuality was still a criminal offence. It would have been abhorent to his working class father that his son was a "namby pamby" as he called him.

I'm pretty sure that homophobia, whilst not totally eradicated, is much less of an issue in the 21st Century, especially within the family group.
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Agreed, and it's people like Williams and John that have helped bring about the change. We're so relaxed about an individual's sexuality now that it's easy to forget the atmosphere right up to the 1960's. At my school at that time, there were 300 plus boys and apparently not one of them was gay! Highly unlikely of course, but in those days, you could call someone a murderer or a rapist, but worst of all was "queer"! I think most of the Muslim community have yet to see the light and this is reflected in the present problems over sex education in schools
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
Agreed, and it's people like Williams and John that have helped bring about the change. We're so relaxed about an individual's sexuality now that it's easy to forget the atmosphere right up to the 1960's. At my school at that time, there were 300 plus boys and apparently not one of them was gay! Highly unlikely of course, but in those days, you could call someone a murderer or a rapist, but worst of all was "queer"! I think most of the Muslim community have yet to see the light and this is reflected in the present problems over sex education in schools
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kiwiqpr said:
1000 boys at my school
not a single gay
in my class anyway
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Are we in politics thread territory lads? Review something. This is a nice, clean thread.
 
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Steelmonkey said:
Cheers for the link to the podcaat! Long drive this morning and I've listened to them all.

Agree, the further into the show you get, the less you worry about accents as the charcter development is superb. If this show doesn't win a mountain of awards then there's something amiss - it's the best thing I've seen in ages.
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Chernobyl is now the highest rating TV Show on IMDb ... https://www.imdb.com/chart/toptv/

I think it's the best thing I've seen on TV too, not that I watch a lot of if it. I just thought what could I do while Mrs Nines had a dinner party for a few of her friends last Friday for her birthday. I went into the living room and pressed the Sky button and was given this as an option. I only usually watch sport and witnessed this gem. The filmogrophy and soundtrack is amazing. The composer went to Lithuania and recorded the sounds from a defunct nuclear reactor and formed the soundtrack from that ... genius. Even Mrs Nines commented on the soundtrack while I was watching it in the next room on Saturday ... '' What are you watching? The music sounds a bit grim. ''



https://grapevine.is/news/2019/05/2...sed-only-sounds-from-an-actual-nuclear-plant/
 
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I might try and watch ' Band of Brothers ' inbetween watching the Cricket World Cup.
 
For some reason the One Show is on our telly, featuring the new all northern line up of Top Gear. Paddy whatisface, Freddie Flintoff and another bloke who may or may not know something about cars. I haven’t watched this show, or the version on Amazon, for years, it had its day a decade ago. The performance of these three trying to promote the new version is like an enormous neon sign shouting ‘stay away, this is crap’.
 
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Just seen this trailer.....

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One of the greatest films of all time, in my opinion, re-released in full, 4K UHD, with loads of unseen footage (not so sure about that, isn't that what the Directors Cut years ago was all about?). Anyway, definate trip to the cinema for this one....
 
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