r/BritishTV

Watched England vs Mexico on iPlayer and there was no UHD option, just standard HD. Seemed odd given the BBC has said England's knockout games would be part of their 54 UHD matches this tournament, and they definitely had the rights to this one since it was on iPlayer.

Every other match I've watched has had the UHD option available. Did anyone else get it for this game, or was it missing for everyone? Trying to work out if this was a BBC-wide thing or just an issue on my end.

I also liked and manhunt, death by lightning (American series), and a very British coup (I think that’s what it’s called - it’s like a Tony Benn type dude gets elected and the deep entrenched anti communist hawks do all they can to derail and destroy him)

Are there any other British (20th century set maybe?) miniseries, movies or one season shows that are similar? Maybe some crime some witty stuff mixed in also with a serious topic. Maybe a charismatic hugh grant type main character who’s morally ambiguous.

Thanks if you are able to lmk.

I see 'The Good Life' is streaming again on BBC iPlayer after PK died. I'm watching it again, haven't seen it since I was a kid. And I've found that my attitude towards it has changed with age, whereas as a kid I was firmly on the side of the Good's these days I'm now firmly on the side of the Leadbetter's.

Tom and Barbara have no idea how to go about their new lifestyle, they do no research, they're in completely the wrong place for such an undertaking and seem to make the wrong decisions every step of the way. Like assuming that they're growing crops that people will actually want to buy.

By the end of the series Tom understands that he's facing retirement on very little and won't be able physically to keep his ideal lifestyle going forever.

At one point they're offered the chance to buy a small holding where they could actually make a proper go of things, but they refuse.

Is actors being dismissive of stuff based on its genre or style.

Some examples that spring to mind are John Laurie bitterly saying of Dad's Army "I was the best Hamlet of the 20s but now I'm famous for being in this crap", and Harry Landis giving a backhanded compliment to Friday Night Dinner by starting with "It's not Chekhov but for its type...".

It feels like pure snobbery frankly. So what if something is farce, or has dragons and magic in it? The question is if it's good on its own merits. A piece of comedy isn't suddenly rendered worthless because it gets a laugh by someone falling down a flight of stairs.

Luckily there are older actors like Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen who do stuff like studio sitcoms and soap operas because they genuinely want to, but it feels like a lot of their generation still has this mindset where only the superficially 'worthy' stuff has cultural value.

Yank here. Subscribed to BritBox via Amazon Prime, and got hooked on Blue Lights then Trigger Point. To my consternation, Prime's BritBox only has the first three episodes of Series 3 available for viewing!

Anyone know why?

Was reminiscing about my younger years and Trouble came to mind. Was this one of the best channels back in the day. Aired so many good shows such as Hang Time, California Dreams, My Wife and Kids, Moesha, Sister Sister ( go home Roger), Two guys, a girl and a Pizza Place. Of course Fresh Prince and Saved by the Bell.

Anyone else remember this series first airing then suddenly stopping? Apparently after episode 2 it stopped as there were still investigations being held. Apparently the third episode did air but i cant find it. There is a second series which is on BBCIplayer. Very good if anyone hasn’t seen it.

My wife and I are constantly looking for the first set of episodes. Would love to find them
Here is imdb link incase anyone wants to see it

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14327726/

I am in need of help searching for double episode of the show.

It was where the police were in a time crush to find a boy who was going to be abused on live stream for sickos.

It was a very intense but well put together episode.

I just need to know name of the episode/s. I’d like to watch it again.

TIA!

Spoilers throughout below:

Just finished the new BBC Lord of the Flies, as my favourite book I have to say I was nervous but I was not disappointed, it was absolutely sublime and the kids were all so talented.
Only 2 things really stood out as off to me:

I get why they changed Piggy’s death, the big emotional buildup deserves the longer payoff etc., but I do think the story lost something compared to the book, the shock *BOOM* and the civilisation has completely collapsed. Not necessarily worse just different and I happened to prefer the book.

The big thing that kind of got me was, why didn’t Simon discover that the beast was a parachuter in this version? Unless I missed it, they just didn’t touch this at all, they had him discovering the Lord of the Flies but him finding the Beast, running to tell them but being killed before he had the chance was quite symbolic for the story I thought; he discovers the truth but the characters simply don’t care anymore, they have their own way now.
It seems they went all in on the ‘the beast is in us all’ vibe, but I think you could’ve had both with no issues.

Thoughts?