The BBC Four Thread

cozar

Garlinge wrote: »

Spiral starts tonight... two episodes each Sat night and final season. So remember to record both!

Read a Caroline Proust interview today and it’s 15 years since season 1. Hard to believe.

brian_t

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema returns with a third series next Monday 11th January.

First up is British Comedy, then Pop Music Movies and finally Cult Movies.

In a revealing look at one of the defining genres of British cinema, Mark argues that comedy films win laughs by tapping into our abiding national preoccupations. We love to root for the underdog or ‘little man’, a key figure who appears in countless guises. We delight in seeing class and manners satirised and subverted. We’re fascinated by films that mix comedy and crime. We enjoy home-grown pastiches and parodies that take the big beasts of Hollywood down a peg. And then there’s the infamous phenomenon of the British sex comedy…

From side-splitting classics to overlooked gems, Mark shows how making fools of ourselves can make for seriously good cinema.

https://www.filmstories.co.uk/news/mark-kermodes-secrets-of-cinema-trailer-for-new-series-more-details/

cozar

Great episode tonight Spiral. Sad it’s the last ever season.

jojofizzio

Delighted to see the ending they had....

I have to say I’ll miss this....brilliant series with some really funny moments in the midst of serious themes....great to see the skullduggery between the po-weeceband the prosecutors/judges to get the baddies....and hilarious how often Laure and her team had to break more laws than the baddies themselves to get their work done...
Loved the human side/relationships and how they were portrayed too
I will miss Gilou and his twenty year old bomber jackets strutting up the street in that famous “couldn’t care less” French way...
Any chance of an Engrenages Neuf??.

Harry Palmr

The fall and rise of Reggie Perrin starts from the start tonight at 8.30 pm with Yes Minster at 8 pm

Eod100

New Finnish drama Man In Room 301 starting on Saturday at 9.

brian_t

Eod100 wrote: »

New Finnish drama Man In Room 301 starting on Saturday at 9.

6 parter written and created by the British actress Kate Ashfield who co-starred in the 2004 zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0038918/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm#writer

Garlinge

So will it continue each week? not seen it being repeated in recent years unlike "Dad's Army"

Harry Palmr

Yes well my EPG certainly thinks so as I could series link it.

brian_t

Yes they continue.

Tuesday seem to be British Sitcom evening. Next Tuesday includes Mark Lawson Talks to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and the following week he talks to Galton and Simpson.

fryup

Reg Perrin was on this evening,

"enjoy your day at the office"

"i won't"

Harry Palmr

"Time and motion wait for no man".

Which should get a laugh but doesn't!

cozar

Eod100 wrote: »

New Finnish drama Man In Room 301 starting on Saturday at 9.

Its very watchable. Standard Scandi fare. Not on BBC4 but Capitani on Netflix is very similar to the usual Saturday night viewing on BBC 4.

corks finest

cozar wrote: »

Its very watchable. Standard Scandi fare. Not on BBC4 but Capitani on Netflix is very similar to the usual Saturday night viewing on BBC 4.

Love the scandinavian crime jobs,Wallander,The bridge etc etc

Harry Palmr

BBC Three is coming back it'll be as before, sharing space with Ceebies It looks like they're going to double its online era budget which surely is only going to come from existing channel expenditure and BBC Four must be the most likely victim.

Capt'n Midnight

Harry Palmr wrote: »

BBC Three is coming back it'll be as before, sharing space with Ceebies It looks like they're going to double its online era budget which surely is only going to come from existing channel expenditure and BBC Four must be the most likely victim.

Links - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56251020

When it returns, BBC Three will be targeted at audiences aged 16-34, broadcasting from 19:00 to 04:00 each day.

As a result, CBBC's broadcast hours will revert to closing at 19:00 - as was the case before 2016. It currently runs until 21:00.

gmisk

brian_t wrote: »

6 parter written and created by the British actress Kate Ashfield who co-starred in the 2004 zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0038918/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm#writer

Rather enjoying this I have to say, a bit slow but gripping

cozar

gmisk wrote: »

Rather enjoying this I have to say, a bit slow but gripping

1st episode tonight has got interesting alright. Just starting 2nd episode. Enjoying it.

odyssey06

On Wednesday 24th March, BBC4 will re-air the documentary France 1939: One Last Summer.

This is a poignant documentary, mixing home movies, diaries and letters from that bittwersweet, last summer before the war.

Bozo Skeleton

SimonQuinlank wrote: »

Blackfish doc that was on last night at 9pm about the treatment of killer whales in captivity was excellent,as was nearly every 'Storyville' documentary I've watched.

Fantastic channel.

Yeah, great documentary. It's a Storyville one.
Anything with the Storyville stamp is pretty much guaranteed to be brilliant. So many superb Storyville documentaries. There's always a few of them on BBC iPlayer. Far too many great ones to even begin to think of recommendations. Every Storyville doc is top class.

Tigerandahalf

A beautiful documentary just on there on bbc4.
Twin girls adopted from China by 2 different sets of parents - one from California and one from Norway and pure chance that they have managed to stay in touch.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053pxdt

Tigerandahalf

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

A beautiful documentary just on there on bbc4.
Twin girls adopted from China by 2 different sets of parents - one from California and one from Norway and pure chance that they have managed to stay in touch.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053pxdt

That's a repeat, its brilliant.

Tigerandahalf

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That's a repeat, its brilliant.

Such a beautiful story and the scenery in that area of Norway is incredible.
It is repeated around 1.20am tonight if anyone wants to record it.

Capt'n Midnight

odyssey06 wrote: »

On Wednesday 24th March, BBC4 will re-air the documentary France 1939: One Last Summer.

This is a poignant documentary, mixing home movies, diaries and letters from that bittwersweet, last summer before the war.

Technically speaking.

Japan was fighting in China, and invaded Mongolia and got a bloody nose from the Russians.

And there was the whole Western Betray thing.


In the UK it's called the Phoney War because they sat on their arses while Hitler was dividing and conquering. Czechoslovakia, Poland, France and the UK together could have taken out Germany. Look at how long the Poles held out against BOTH Hitler and Stalin at the same time. Or consider that a quarter of the tanks used in the invasion of France were Czech tanks.

odyssey06

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Technically speaking.
Japan was fighting in China, and invaded Mongolia and got a bloody nose from the Russians.
And there was the whole Western Betray thing.
In the UK it's called the Phoney War because they sat on their arses while Hitler was dividing and conquering. Czechoslovakia, Poland, France and the UK together could have taken out Germany. Look at how long the Poles held out against BOTH Hitler and Stalin at the same time. Or consider that a quarter of the tanks used in the invasion of France were Czech tanks.

Well it was their last summer of peacetime footing.

I wonder if the Japanese think of 1936 in same light... the Czechs 1938... the Americans 1941.

And in Ireland perhaps the summers never stopped.

Ps I agree with you re 1938, that alternate scenario would make for an interesting documentary / topic thread

brian_t

Before Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott and AC-12.

There was Detective Superintendent Tony Clark and the Complaints Investigation Bureau (CIB).

Between The Lines starts on Sunday 28th March with a double-bill.

Also stars

Tom Georgeson as Detective Inspector Harry Naylor

Siobhan Redmond as Detective Sergeant Maureen "Mo" Connell

& Tony Doyle as Chief Superintendent John Deakin

Skid X

brian_t wrote: »

Before Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott and AC-12.

There was Detective Superintendent Tony Clark and the Complaints Investigation Bureau (CIB).

Between The Lines starts on Sunday 28th March with a double-bill.

Also stars

Tom Georgeson as Detective Inspector Harry Naylor

Siobhan Redmond as Detective Sergeant Maureen "Mo" Connell

& Tony Doyle as Chief Superintendent John Deakin

Nice one Brian, looking forward to giving that a rewatch

brian_t

According to DigiGuide - Blinded: Those Who Kill was due to start on BBC4 on Saturday 3rd April at 9pm.

Not any more.

There will be a repeat of the second series of The Young Montalbano on that Saturday now and also the following Saturday.

odyssey06

brian_t wrote: »

According to DigiGuide - Blinded: Those Who Kill was due to start on BBC4 on Saturday 3rd April at 9pm.
Not any more.
There will be a repeat of the second series of The Young Montalbano on that Saturday now and also the following Saturday.

Missed Young Montalbano first time around and really enjoyed first series so looking forward to catching series two.
Hopefully Those Who Kill returns also in due course.

peteeeed

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