I think that's the Stephen Fry re-visit of 2009. It wasn't bad but nothing like DA.

Watched this last week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d0p72

Laughed a lot. I grew up in a Jewish area and a Jewish trade, hardly any left in the area or the trade, used to see guys like him all the time, a nice reminder of all the old fabric and trimmings merchants I used to do battle with on a daily basis.

Oh. I'd didn't know it was a revisit.. now I've gotta go google the original!

Thanks

Mmm.. wikipedia mentions a 1989 BBC Radio series called "Last Chance to See" (Hear?). Is that the one?

My bad. Yes it was radio, and it looks like it's available:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/lastchancetosee/sites/radio/

Now how do I save them to a format I can actually listen to on my iPhone?

You've got a PM.

The book of the radio series is very, very much worth reading.

Peter

Muchas gracias

I read the book ages ago, I seem to remember buying it for loads of people at the time.

It was worse than that.

I've managed to snag the missing Alcatraz and House episodes online and have already watched them. Don't know if they aired in different time zones or if they were simply posted on the Fox web site. Continuity is somewhat important in both series, though not critical if off by a single episode.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that having purcahsed a season pass for House on iTunes, it was available for download last week at the normal time. I didn't realize it never aired.

Hmm. One quick BBS search later, and it turns out that you and I had basically this exact conversation, the other way round, six years ago...

Peter

So we're both edging towards senility? Did you watch DG? I had to watch Being Human with the missus, felt like my brain had turned to custard by the end of it

Both US and UK versions of Being Human have taken a deeper dive into plain old boring this season. They could have done a lot (of interesting things) with the UK reboot. But they didn't.

After ditching two thirds of the cast and leaving the most annoying one intact, I've stopped watching Being Human. I wish they'd left it at two seasons.

Anyone watched Series 2 of Sherlock yet? It's not available (legally) over here in the States. *grumble*

Man, I can't wait for this one- I'll gladly pay when it's available.

I've seen episodes 1 and 2. Haven't watched 3 yet. I would have watched them all sooner, but I live in a household with three other busy adults, and we all want to watch them together as a group, so it's a question of synching up for that activity. You know, family time and all. Same holds true for the last few Doctor Who episodes, we haven't seen the Christmas special yet.

They've been quite good so far! I wish that BBC America would show them in the same time frame as they've been showing Doctor Who lately. It's been nice finally being able to get Doctor Who to just show up on the Tivo via the cable company, without having to resort to torrents.

Lest anyone whine about me getting Sherlock via Torrents, I'm in the same boat as everyone else in the US: Not available until the disc version hits the shelf. We watched Series 1 on torrents and then bought the Blu-ray set to watch again in higher quality. We intend to do the same with Series 2.

Sounds like you need a date night.

I've seen it. It was excellent.

Oh...uh...I flew to London, watched all three episodes on British TV, then flew back...yeah...that's the ticket...

I will gladly pay for them when they come out here. That show is phenomenal.

There's a US version? Better not tell the missus

I thought Sherlock was better than the Guy Ritchie version (they're fun but not Sherlock Holmes) at being Sherlock but still too jazzed up, why do they do the visual thing where you can see the numbers and words that I guess are running through his mind? Shouldn't the modern version have him smoking crack?

Yup, there is. In the UK version, do the three main characters just tend to sit around moping about how awful their lives are? Because most of the US series is like that. At least four times in every episode, some combination of the three housemates will sit down with each other and talk about how terrible it is to be them, while some sappy-sad music plays in the background. It's pretty terrible. But I still watch it...


Sherlock is far superior to the Guy Ritchie films. In pretty much every way.

Not really, no sappy-sad music either.



Dunno, I thought the GR version was fun, just shouldn't have even pretended to be Sherlock Holmes. Much more how I wanted the Doc Savage film to be but that was properly shit (anyone else remember that?).

GR was fun, but Sherlock is top shelf.

Ironically, the Holmes in Sherlock reminds me more of House than the literary character, but since House was inspired by the literary character, it's close enough. I don't think the original Holmes was quite as lacking in empathy as either House or the new Sherlock.

Regarding TWD episode last night

No, but it makes for some hilarious onscreen moments, doesn't it? I just rewatched the first Sherlock, and there's a great moment where he notices that the lady at the morgue applied lipstick shortly before asking him if he wanted to get coffee. He says "Thank you, black, two sugars please" or something like that, then when she removes the lipstick later ("it wasn't working for me" she says), criticizes her for doing so because it makes her mouth look too small.

The comedy there was ostensibly that Sherlock is oblivious to a woman trying to get a date with him. But in a later episode, we see him carefully reading another woman's physiological responses to attraction, so in hindsight, that moment in the first episode is either bad continuity, or Sherlock was negging.

I think the idea was that, as the episodes progressed, John helped to in-still a tiny amount of empathy into his partner.

One of the minor plot lines.

Not a huge fan of TWD season finale: