Posted on 01/05/2021 1:17:25 AM PST by C19fan
Oh geez, how’d I forget Poirot?! I love the opening theme music to that, too. Love David Suchet as Poirot. He is to Poirot as Sean Connery was to James Bond. =)
Turn, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, Gangs of New York, Die Hard (hey, the 80’s were a period)...
No mention of PBS’ miniseries “Victoria” starring Jenna Coleman, the gorgeous Rufus Sewell, and Tom Hughes as Prince Albert?
Yeah, it’s true Midsomer Murders started going woke in later years. Always lots of black characters, and they are never the killers unless they had a good reason. There are plenty of evil white people in Midsomer, but the blacks are all saints, apparently. And oddly, it seems like the killers are more often women than men, which... statistically... well, if it’s poison, maybe.
Agatha Christie stories are also famous for this. British people pre-1950 will apparently hang out in a castle while their friends and family get picked off one-by-one without budging.
"I say, it's demmed odd, Nigel getting skewered in the billiard room, Emily being strangled in the conservatory, and now poor Richard poisoned by the tea! (sip) My tea is fine, how is your tea, William? William?? William!! Oh dear, poor William! There, you see? It's demmed odd! (sip)"
Young Rufus Sewell is in Middlemarch, too, and he’s just darling. All hair and eyes!
I’ve been impressed with The Crown so far, been watching the first season for the past few weeks. Lithgow was pretty good as Churchill.
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LOL, I still think of him as Lenin when I see him now. That was an excellent series.
Not a series, but I recently saw an excellent production called “Countdown to War”, with Gandalf playing Hitler, I thought it really captured well what was going on behind the scenes in the days leading up to WWII.
Glad I never watched it.
The Forsyte Saga (1967 black and white version)
The First Churchills (1969)
Yes, they just had to urbanize the little rural English villages. Once urbanized, they are no longer the quaint villages we know and love. They used to limit the urban scene to Causton.
I love Wives and Daughters (we have the DVD) and I would like to watch Middlemarch. I saw bits and pieces ages ago. Something I always have loved is The Scarlett Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour. He was amazing playing the lead role!
Death in Paradise, Father Brown, Rosemary and Thyme...
Due South?
Lonesome Dove
I am watching more and more Brit and Commonwealth programs because the US products are more crappy than usual. I just dropped SWAT, which I call Social Working At Ten, and am about ready to pull the plug on NCIS:LA since it seems to have run out of material — a problem many long-running series has.
However, some of the Brit stuff is just too ‘thick’ with accents, making them difficult to watch/understand. The Aussie and Canadian programs are easier in that regard.
TUBI TV has several and they are showing up in the other streaming services, too. Some of them are a bid dated from the later 1990s and earlier 2000s. TUBI seems to have only a few seasons of series than ran for years.
Amazon Prime has a similar problem of showing some seasons and then making the later seasons pay-TV either through purchasing episodes/seasons or making them viewable on through additional Amazon channel subscriptions.
Two that are begging to be made: Doctor Syn, alias The Scarecrow; and Flashman.
I wouldn’t say no to more Sharpe.
The Beeb back catalogue includes some previously unfilmable works... Gormenghast and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell spring to mind.
Love Endeavour!
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