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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
 

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