I'm tired of turning on the television to drek. Things that pass for quality programing today are sad. PBS is the last to offer truly great productions:
The PBS NewsHour is the gold standard of nightly news in my opinion.
Intelligent talk shows like Charlie Rose, Dick Cavett, and Firing Line (now just Firing Line)
Antiques Roadshow
Masterpiece Theatre (which can be hit or miss. Downton Abbey was so inaccurate and cheesy, watch The Remains of the Day or Gosford Park instead).
Documentaries by Ken Burns as well as The America Experience, American Masters, and Frontline
BBC or iTV shows- Are You Being Served, Keeping Up Appearances, Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett immediately come to mind
Recordings of symphony, ballet, and opera
Foreign and classic films. The Sound of Music was always on during holidays.
So, what are other quality programs to add to the list??? I get tired of the same old stuff over the years.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 20, 2024 10:55 PM |
I find it sad that I am a late 20's male and have this issue. Surely I'm not the only one.
I will say I am reading Nicholas Nickleby and excited to watch the 2002 Hollywood film and the 2001 miniseries when I am done.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 18, 2024 10:49 PM |
I feel pretentious evening writing something like this. That's not who I am
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 18, 2024 10:51 PM |
It’s not just Firing Line, OP. It’s “Firing Line With Margaret Hoover”… the pretty blonde.nepo baby
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 18, 2024 10:56 PM |
R3 lol yes, I like her though. She interviewed Doris Kearns Goodwin last night,
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 18, 2024 11:02 PM |
R5 does your PBS station hound you until after you die if you sign up for Passport?
I'd like to, but every time I've donated to public radio or PBS stations they start calling me a few months after I start for more money begging and then it will never be enough. Can't you make 60 into 100 a year? 200? 500? I'd happily do it otherwise.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 18, 2024 11:23 PM |
Maryland is horrible. So incredibly stupid. Who wrote that shit? And I’d like to ask Stockyard Channing “Does your face hurt?, because it’s killing me.”
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 18, 2024 11:34 PM |
What?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 18, 2024 11:35 PM |
R6 Nope.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 18, 2024 11:40 PM |
There's a Doctor Quinn marathon on tomorrow on start TV that sounds right up your alley.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 18, 2024 11:43 PM |
Everything was better in MY day!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 18, 2024 11:44 PM |
R1, see if you can find the 1982 film of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s NINE HOUR play of Nicholas Nickleby. No, really, it’s worth it. It played on Broadway over two nights and was shown in multiple episodes on the BBC and then PBS.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 19, 2024 2:24 AM |
R13 I have heard good things about it! I know it has Roger Rees and John Wood, two very good actors
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 19, 2024 3:27 AM |
R11 Why do you say that?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 19, 2024 3:40 AM |
I strongly second the rec for the 1982 Nicholas Nickleby. It’s the best adaptation I’ve ever seen of any Dickens work and I’ve seen dozens. I liked it so much I tracked it down to give to my mother for Mother’s Day last year.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 19, 2024 3:57 AM |
Ooh, R16 here again. I should also say that the BBC adaptation of Tom Jones is phenomenal.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 19, 2024 3:59 AM |
R17 I enjoy most BBC literary adaptations!
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 19, 2024 4:15 AM |
Thank you for the recommendations
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 19, 2024 4:18 PM |
Any more recommendations?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 18, 2024 9:12 PM |
Will smell you Princess Grace
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 18, 2024 9:18 PM |
R21 what?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 18, 2024 9:27 PM |
I liked it, R7 -- but I only watched it because of Eve Best. I loved her on Nurse Jackie and I wanted to see her in something else.
But the plot kind of reminded me of Philomena -- except backwards.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 18, 2024 9:43 PM |
I’m watching a 90s adaptation of Great Expectations with Charlotte Rampling as Miss Havisham and Ioan Gruffudd as adult Pip. I read the book so long ago, I only remember the basic outlines but here nearly every character except Joe is mean and cruel and adult Pip is thoughtless and profligate. I didn’t even recognize Lesley Sharpe as the sister. Not sure I’ll watch the second half.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 18, 2024 10:10 PM |
Jennifer Ehle, who starred as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1990s BBC tv series Pride and Prejudice (with Colin Firth as Mr Darcy) is now appearing on Law and Order Organized Crime as a police chief. The story seems to be riffing off LISK, as a a million other crime shows have been doing. Keith Carradine plays creepy her father. Ehle looks very good at 54. Not a line or a crease on her face,
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 19, 2024 7:18 PM |
[quote]Not a line or a crease on her face,
Her mom aged nicely.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 19, 2024 7:25 PM |
There have been a lot of fascinating productions in the NATURE series.
One that comes to mind is the six episodes of EARTHFLIGHT, highlighting birds on each of the continents.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 19, 2024 7:46 PM |
I am listening to the second set iof starling babies being raised in my soffit. When weather turned warm I opened window so cats could sit at the screen and sniff/watch backyard birds. I woke up with a hundred bug bites after I left the window open one night. Bird mites left the nest and traveled straight through screen holes into my bedroom and attacked me in my sleep. Bird mite bites ITCH like crazy and at first it looked like scabies had I invaded. But bird mites don’t live on humans. They just bite humans and die of starvation if they don’t get back to sucking on birds.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 19, 2024 7:52 PM |
I just watched the movie coda to Spooks, with Jon Snow (forget his real name) as the agent running around town. Jennifer Ehle was the deputy director and even knowing it was her, I couldn’t see the resemblance. I think it’s because she’d lightened her hair and her eyebrows so much. Had no idea she is American.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 20, 2024 10:55 PM |