The gentle telly appreciation thread

[Nightjar]

I've been loving Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing.

It's droll and silly and wistfully melancholy.

Two 787 men contemplating the abyss in waders.


I'm so old.



Anyway, do any of you?

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Is it a documentary or a sitcom type thing?

[Nightjar]

Doc.

[cosmictanya]

No. Never heard of it. But gentle and homely tv has its place - I get that from EastEnders.

I also tuned into The Waltons a few weeks ago, expecting some homespun Americana, but it was an episode centred around the people of Walton Mountain finding out about the Holocaust.

The middle Walton son - what an ugly git. He didn't seem to have a chin. Detracted from the moving storyline somewhat.

[Butterfield]

Celebrity 5 Go Motorhoming (around the UK)

[cosmictanya]

Do they get voted off? My grandmother and I used to enjoy the coach trip programme. We'd have an afternoon gin and watch that.

[cosmictanya]

"Deewar E Shab" is a current passion of mine. 'Historical drama following the lives of a group of courtesans and the people around them'. Channel Hum Europe. Well worth pressing the series link button.

It's got great dialogue - 'my tongue is stiff and I feel insulted' forms a key part of a current plot line argument.

"New Tricks" always enjoyable. Anyone? Although I'm an Amanda Redman rather than a Tamzin Outhwaite person. And I've never been fully comfortable with Nicholas Lyndhurst outside the role of Rodney.

[Butterfield]

Do they get voted off? My grandmother and I used to enjoy the coach trip programme. We'd have an afternoon gin and watch that.

I don't think so. I've only seen bits of it (including tonight) but it always seems to be the five of them.

[cosmictanya]

I'll look it out. Lesley Joseph is great and Cleo Rocos is normally good value.

[Guest]

Celebrity 5 Go Motorhoming (around the UK)

Nice to see Iggy Pop still getting TV work, but remind me who that is the left?

[Nightjar]

Is it thingy off of the telly?

With the mullet?

[Guest]

Yeah, it's thingamabobs innit?

Or is it a 80s popstar? With a frosted mullet?

[Nightjar]

What was he in, Mick and Keef's Saturday Knockabout Store or something?

[Guest]

Is it Dick or Dom from the 'da' Bungalo, only from about 15 years from before that show started?

[Guest]

His first name is 'Nick'

Of course it is. He looks like a 'Nick'.

[Guest]

Oh, I was right the second time, it's not a children's/light entertainer, well it is, but... it is more of a washed up 80s pop star.

[Nightjar]

Is it Chesney Hawkes?

[Nightjar]

Nick Haywood out of Haircut 100?

[Guest]

It's a young Nigel F*rage,

[Butterfield]

Yes, it's Nick Heyward.

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