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PhaedrusR said:
Started enjoying series 1 of Whitstable Pearl now on Drama channel Thurs 9pm & UKTV Play on-demand online.
The main characters always have lovely houses on the beachfront looking over the coastline, surely affordable on a restaurant owner's salary as a former police trainee!

The guy playing the sullen depressed detective seems too young to be a Detective Chief Inspector (same rank as Morse) is a bit too wooden, but the Kent atmosphere and plotlines are good. Oysters all round!

Also enjoyed the fluff Sunday night Death in Paradise finale, Inspector Neville Parker ridiculously got his dream send off and the replacement Beyond Paradise filmed around Looe and Devon/Cornwall with former DiP actor Kris Marshall hamming it up as the clumsy slightly eccentric detective with Martha living on an implausible houseboat outside his mother in-law's coast-side house, let's suspend believability for the fun of it!
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Started watching Series 2 of Whitstable Pearl. On U&Drama.

DCI Mike McGuire is more morose and depressed than ever!
 
So my recent favourite TV dramas to watch recently have been: Whitstable Pearl, Darby & Joan (Bryan Brown & Greta Scaachi), and new one currently The Chelsea Detective (Adrian Scarborough).

Worthy mentions: The Brokenwood Mysteries (another set in Australia, like Lewis or Midsummer) and Shakespeare and Hathaway.

Have also started watching Slow Horses series 1 onwards.
 
PhaedrusR said:
Started enjoying series 1 of Whitstable Pearl now on Drama channel Thurs 9pm & UKTV Play on-demand online.
The main characters always have lovely houses on the beachfront looking over the coastline, surely affordable on a restaurant owner's salary as a former police trainee!

The guy playing the sullen depressed detective seems too young to be a Detective Chief Inspector (same rank as Morse) is a bit too wooden, but the Kent atmosphere and plotlines are good. Oysters all round!

Also enjoyed the fluff Sunday night Death in Paradise finale, Inspector Neville Parker ridiculously got his dream send off and the replacement Beyond Paradise filmed around Looe and Devon/Cornwall with former DiP actor Kris Marshall hamming it up as the clumsy slightly eccentric detective with Martha living on an implausible houseboat outside his mother in-law's coast-side house, let's suspend believability for the fun of it!
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Any more Death in Paradise being made with a new Inspec-tor!?
 
grovesy said:
Brokenwood is actually set in New Zealand!
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Oops. I did not know that and stand corrected! Obviously haven't watched it enough to pick that up. But it maybe explains why it seems to be set in more small towns than larger cities and the outback, but I couldn't tell!
 
How about an aside. TV programmes, obviously. But, have you ever channel hopped and caught something on a kids channel (with or, as in my case, without kids) and got into some of them? For example. The Really Loud House :p And, I'm not 'in the grave' yet, but when the ninja turtles first came out I was younger, but never got into them. They've done another rehash / follow up, whatever, and I find myself watching it.

Or is that just me? ;)
 
Ant7t said:
How about an aside. TV programmes, obviously. But, have you ever channel hopped and caught something on a kids channel (with or, as in my case, without kids) and got into some of them? For example. The Really Loud House :p And, I'm not 'in the grave' yet, but when the ninja turtles first came out I was younger, but never got into them. They've done another rehash / follow up, whatever, and I find myself watching it.

Or is that just me? ;)
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I have to say that I did find myself watching a few episodes of Peppa Pig and it's been many years since I've had kids young enough to watch that sort of thing. It was more of a research thing though (honest) as a friend of mine had her first baby in her mid forties and it came up in conversation that she didn't like Peppa and wouldn't allow her son to watch it. I asked why and she said it was full of stereotypes, mum does the cooking, daddy goes out to work etc etc. I watched and tbh had I been her it wouldn't have bothered me in the slightest, not only that I probably wouldn't have noticed anyway! Some people get their knickers in a twist about anything
 
merryone said:
I have to say that I did find myself watching a few episodes of Peppa Pig and it's been many years since I've had kids young enough to watch that sort of thing. It was more of a research thing though (honest) as a friend of mine had her first baby in her mid forties and it came up in conversation that she didn't like Peppa and wouldn't allow her son to watch it. I asked why and she said it was full of stereotypes, mum does the cooking, daddy goes out to work etc etc. I watched and tbh had I been her it wouldn't have bothered me in the slightest, not only that I probably wouldn't have noticed anyway! Some people get their knickers in a twist about anything
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I was waiting for a bus some ages back and there was a mother and a push chair sized child. I heard talking and thought this sounds interesting. The child was watching YouTube on a phone. I was actually quite entertained. Then, and you know where this is going, I caught glance of the screen. Peppa Pig. Which, as I write, I am reminded of Paw Patrol. A friend of mine, she, a mother of 10 years and counting, used to go on about how good it was. I was in France and saw it. Thought, I'll see what all the fuss is about. I never got into it ;) They had to rescue a bird that fell in a hole. The only thing I could think of, it's a bird, it could easily fly out. (It looked healthy enough to be able to do that ;) ) FYI, never got into PP either. I did find myself watching the remake of The Clangers: to compare you know :p
 
Ant7t said:
I was waiting for a bus some ages back and there was a mother and a push chair sized child. I heard talking and thought this sounds interesting. The child was watching YouTube on a phone. I was actually quite entertained. Then, and you know where this is going, I caught glance of the screen. Peppa Pig. Which, as I write, I am reminded of Paw Patrol. A friend of mine, she, a mother of 10 years and counting, used to go on about how good it was. I was in France and saw it. Thought, I'll see what all the fuss is about. I never got into it ;) They had to rescue a bird that fell in a hole. The only thing I could think of, it's a bird, it could easily fly out. (It looked healthy enough to be able to do that ;) ) FYI, never got into PP either. I did find myself watching the remake of The Clangers: to compare you know :p
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You need to watch Bluey, it is the best kids programme, very popular with adults!!!
 
Re: children’s shows.
For the best part of the last two and a half years I’ve looked after my nieces little boy one morning a week. I started when he was a year old and obviously in that time he started talking and watching various shows.
He would bring me the remote and ask me to put a certain programme on. Problem being, that more often than not I didn’t have a clue what he was asking me for. This would result in scanning through Netflix children’s guide and waiting for him to point at the appropriate picture. Occasionally I’d have to ring his mother to find out what he was asking for, which generally bore no resemblance to what I thought he was saying.
Obviously Baby Shark was a big favourite. That programme gets very dark at times. The Halloween one in particular, with Grandma shark losing her eyeballs in a witches cauldron and Dracula having to go to the dentist so he could get new fangs to draw blood with. Not that I was watching, of course.
He related this entire episode to his nanny (my sister) and grandpa who didn’t know where he was getting it from. I explained, when they related this to me and for a while after that Baby Shark was off the menu.
 
madaunty said:
Obviously Baby Shark was a big favourite. That programme gets very dark at times. The Halloween one in particular, with Grandma shark losing her eyeballs in a witches cauldron and Dracula having to go to the dentist so he could get new fangs to draw blood with. Not that I was watching, of course.
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Never seen it. Although it might not seem like it, if I watch kids programmes, they are usually aimed at the upwards of 10, I would guess. Although I did end up watching a short part of Blue's Clues as a filler. It turned out it was a film version. Guess what? Yes, I ended up watching the lot :O Hey ho.

And back to the shark. That's not very child friendly, but the theme tune is catchy. Don't even think about it, Anthony. lol
 
Patsy said:
I used to love Rentaghost,my sister in law told me about it.
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I remember that first hand. Two things about it. One, if you've ever seen the recorded version of Billy Elliott, (musical, not film film), if I get my characters correct, the wife of the neighbour played the grandmother in BE. Didn't know she could sing. She's deceased now. And, although not into Coronation St, I can NEVER see Audrey without thinking of Nadia Popov.
 
Ant7t said:
I remember that first hand. Two things about it. One, if you've ever seen the recorded version of Billy Elliott, (musical, not film film), if I get my characters correct, the wife of the neighbour played the grandmother in BE. Didn't know she could sing. She's deceased now. And, although not into Coronation St, I can NEVER see Audrey without thinking of Nadia Popov.
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Yes she was very funny in it. I thought it was too good for children's TV.
Another one was Tony Robinson in Maidstone Marion and her Merry Men.
 
Patsy said:
Yes she was very funny in it. I thought it was too good for children's TV.
Another one was Tony Robinson in Maidstone Marion and her Merry Men.
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Never saw her and her merry men, in Maidstone or anywhere else. There were some shows I never really took to. If you want to test your knowledge and nostalgia, try Stuview TV on Youtube. Mainly 70's and 80's. If you want to of course ;)
 
Ant7t said:
How about an aside. TV programmes, obviously. But, have you ever channel hopped and caught something on a kids channel (with or, as in my case, without kids) and got into some of them? For example. The Really Loud House :p And, I'm not 'in the grave' yet, but when the ninja turtles first came out I was younger, but never got into them. They've done another rehash / follow up, whatever, and I find myself watching it.

Or is that just me? ;)
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No, it's just you, weirdo! 😆

Nah, seriously, I sometimes find myself catching a few minutes of kids channels as I go up the Freeview channels, as they're located just before the news channels that start at 231 with BBC News.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! 😁
Did catch the revamped Thunderbirds (animated CGI graphics version) but wasn't too impressed. Some of the Japanese animé style/manga type cartoons are interesting and creative.

It's a shame they moved the Blue Peter of my youth to the CBBC channel, years ago, as I'd probably have still watched it occasionally if was still on main BBC channels, but can't be bothered to look on CBBC.
 
Ant7t said:
Never saw her and her merry men, in Maidstone or anywhere else. There were some shows I never really took to. If you want to test your knowledge and nostalgia, try Stuview TV on Youtube. Mainly 70's and 80's. If you want to of course ;)
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I know I hate autocorrect it looks fine you press post and the sodding word changes😡. Maid Marion and her Merry Men.
 
Ant7t said:
Never saw her and her merry men, in Maidstone or anywhere else. There were some shows I never really took to. If you want to test your knowledge and nostalgia, try Stuview TV on Youtube. Mainly 70's and 80's. If you want to of course ;)
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🤣
 
madaunty said:
Re: children’s shows.
For the best part of the last two and a half years I’ve looked after my nieces little boy one morning a week. I started when he was a year old and obviously in that time he started talking and watching various shows.
He would bring me the remote and ask me to put a certain programme on. Problem being, that more often than not I didn’t have a clue what he was asking me for. This would result in scanning through Netflix children’s guide and waiting for him to point at the appropriate picture. Occasionally I’d have to ring his mother to find out what he was asking for, which generally bore no resemblance to what I thought he was saying.
Obviously Baby Shark was a big favourite. That programme gets very dark at times. The Halloween one in particular, with Grandma shark losing her eyeballs in a witches cauldron and Dracula having to go to the dentist so he could get new fangs to draw blood with. Not that I was watching, of course.
He related this entire episode to his nanny (my sister) and grandpa who didn’t know where he was getting it from. I explained, when they related this to me and for a while after that Baby Shark was off the menu.
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It jumped the (baby) shark.


 
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