The BBC Four Thread

Alun

Any idea what's going to replace the current reruns of Young Montalbano on Saturday evenings? There's a new series of Hinterland that's already been shown in Welsh with English subs on S4C, so I'd expect the English version of that to be on sometime soon.

silverharp

ellobee wrote: »

Probaly missing the ones with Jimmy Saville, Dave Lee Travis and Gary Glitter, I wonder how many episodes those 3 were in?

there was also a strike, so the show wasn't on for a while.

silverharp

Skid X wrote: »

Some information about those shows here as posted on the Beebrock thread, where there is lots of weekly Top of The Pops discussion (and more!)

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102025812&postcount=7798

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99778683

I didn't know this thread existed, thanks

The remake of Roots starts on BBC Four tonight at 9pm!

http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/fjppgg/roots

brian_t

Alun wrote: »

Any idea what's going to replace the current reruns of Young Montalbano on Saturday evenings? There's a new series of Hinterland that's already been shown in Welsh with English subs on S4C, so I'd expect the English version of that to be on sometime soon.

Sorry to say but "Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World" which is a repeat anyway is on Saturday 18th Feb at 10pm

cml387

silverharp wrote: »

I didn't know this thread existed, thanks

It's required reading in this house.:D

Harry Palmr

Alun wrote: »

Any idea what's going to replace the current reruns of Young Montalbano on Saturday evenings? There's a new series of Hinterland that's already been shown in Welsh with English subs on S4C, so I'd expect the English version of that to be on sometime soon.

brian_t wrote: »

Sorry to say but "Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World" which is a repeat anyway is on Saturday 18th Feb at 10pm

BBC Four is holding it's fire until Taboo is done and dusted AFAIK

brian_t

Harry Palmr wrote: »

BBC Four is holding it's fire until Taboo is done and dusted AFAIK

Taboo is losing viewers every week (1.7m over 4 episodes) so I suppose they don't want to make it worse.

Alun

Harry Palmr wrote: »

BBC Four is holding it's fire until Taboo is done and dusted AFAIK

I hadn't even heard of Taboo and had to Google it

Alun

brian_t wrote: »

Sorry to say but "Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World" which is a repeat anyway is on Saturday 18th Feb at 10pm

Yawn.

Harry Palmr

brian_t wrote: »

Taboo is losing viewers every week (1.7m over 4 episodes) so I suppose they don't want to make it worse.

All dramas lose viewers if they start strong (it's partially why UK series are often so short I think 3-6 episodes as rule), catch-up has been important for Taboo so far

Alun wrote: »

I hadn't even heard of Taboo and had to Google it

It's great but no point in joining in now, 5 down and 3 to go.

brian_t

Some Canadian Noir coming later this year.

Cardinal follows Detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell, The Killing) and Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse, Revenge) as they join forces to hunt down a killer in a small Northern Ontario town.

The 6 x 60’ series will be the channel’s first Canadian drama and will air later in 2017.

Cassian Harrison, Controller of BBC Four, says: “I’m delighted to expand BBC Four’s hugely popular international drama range with our first Canadian drama series, Cardinal. Further to the recently announced Spanish drama I Know Who You Are and returning hits such as Follow The Money, Inspector Montalbano and Spiral, BBC Four remains the home of high quality, high stakes international drama on British television in 2017.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/cardinal

Skid X

Splendid.


https://twitter.com/RhysThomasOBE/status/831676727738900481

Harry Palmr

Skid X wrote: »

Just stumbled on this today, some bonus unseen Brian Pern footage from last year. Lovely stuff. Hope he returns to BBC Four soon.



https://twitter.com/RhysThomasOBE/status/812309689245405184?lang=en

https://vimeo.com/196824205

Sniff! (warning - massive spoiler! :pac:)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/brian-pern-tribute?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_press_office&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=corporate

brian_t

According to DigiGuide "Follow the Money" series 2 starts on Saturday 4th March @ 9pm

Harry Palmr

I can't even remember Follow the Money series one. Did I watch it? Dunno....

I've been watching the remake of Roots and find it really gripping,great acting and the last episode with Jonathan Rhys Meyers was especially good.I saw the old version a few years ago and it was great as well,the new version is a bit pacier!

Alun

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I can't even remember Follow the Money series one. Did I watch it? Dunno....

I recorded it, forgot about it, and then accidentally deleted it

I'm not sure what to do about this to be honest, I suppose it depends on whether series 2 is a stand-alone one or whether it depends heavily on having watched series 1 to make sense I suppose.

brian_t

Alun wrote: »

I recorded it, forgot about it, and then accidentally deleted it

I'm not sure what to do about this to be honest, I suppose it depends on whether series 2 is a stand-alone one or whether it depends heavily on having watched series 1 to make sense I suppose.

It does appear to be a different case with the same two cops Mads and Alf returning.

But Claudia,

now out of prison

also returns as do the two mechanics, "P" the Swede and Evergreens old chairman Mr Christensen.

I'm guessing that it would help to have watched season one.

Harry Palmr

The Science of Pop with Trevor Horn guesting at 9 Pm - they try to make a hit record.

Harry Palmr

More sound tonight (by the way science cannot make a song average enough to be a likely hit) with Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics 1/2 The science behind the sounds we're familiar with and the sounds we normally can't hear at 9 PM

Monday 9 PM

Britain in Focus: A Photographic History
1/3 Exploring how the new art of photography developed in 19th-century Britain.
View Programme information

Tuesday 10 PM

Storyville Killing for Love
A compelling murder mystery, fuelled by a passionate young love affair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Haysom

Wednesday 9 PM

The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun
The story of photographer Harry Burton, who documented the Tutankhamun excavation.

Thursday 9 PM

Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics
2/2 The messages sound waves carry and how they help us understand the world around us.

fryup

anyone watch the roots remake?

i thought it was poor

Harry Palmr

Nope, saw it in 1978!

Skid X

The Storyville Doc 'Murder in Italy' looks interesting (tonight at 10pm) this is the kind of meaty investigation they do very well

Documentaries broadcast under the Storyville marque are almost always absorbing and this is no exception. It’s a retelling of the investigation into the 2010 murder, in the alpine village in Lombardy, of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio. The story gripped Italy for years – not merely the crime itself, but the hunt for the perpetrator, which involved what might have been the largest DNA manhunt in history, with thousands of samples taken.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/13/mondays-best-tv-storyville-in-italy-broadchurch

Poochie05

Enjoying Follow the Money Season 2 so far...

Harry Palmr

Wednesday 9 PM Raleigh bike story.

Skid X

Detectorists will return!

Mackenzie Crook’s Detectorists is to return for a third series, the BBC has announced.

Filming will take place this summer for six half-hour episodes to air later this year.

Toby Jones will return as Lance and Rachael Stirling as Becky, the wife of Crook’s character Crook.

The star, who also writes and directs the the BBC Four series said: ‘After a year away I decided I missed my friends in Danebury so much that I had to go back to the world of Detectorists one more time to see what Andy and Lance could dig up.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/03/31/27201/mackenzie_crook_unearths_more_detectorsits

Harry Palmr

Next Tuesday is surrealism night.

brian_t

brian_t wrote: »

"Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes".

It's a film but there have been 2 more in the series.

Nikolaj Lie Kaas (The Killing 3 & Follow the Money) plays Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases.

BBC4 first showed the above last October. They are repeating it next Saturday and will follow it with a first showing of the second film in the series on Saturday 15th.

It was ok but I won't watch it a second time.

Nekarsulm

brian_t wrote: »

BBC4 first showed the above last October. They are repeating it next Saturday and will follow it with a first showing of the second film in the series on Saturday 15th.

It was ok but I won't watch it a second time.

That was the one with a woman kept captive in a xxxxxxxxxxxxx zzzzzzz?
I was very disappointed they only showed one episode, before starting on The Young Moltalbano. (Which was amusing, but poor fare compared to some of the other Euro cop stuff)