The BBC Four Thread

pure shite, i watched it to the end but pure shite,

The acting, jesus wept

i enjoyed Normal people, possibly best to watch it in the middle of a lock (frame of mind) down though as it helps with the cringey lovely romancey stuff!!

BBC Four is now up for another potential round of cuts to services if the BBC has to find more money to spend elsewhere in the corporation.

To be honest the article is probably giving us a bit of scaremongering. Although there could be a bit of realism attached to it as well. BBC Four officially do not have the Eurovision Semi-finals along with the sports coverage anymore. All of that content is being switched back over to BBC Three once it comes back to linear TV on Tuesday week.

There is also the inevitable possibility that the BBC licence fee funding will be frozen under instructions from Nadine Dorries in the Tory government if they are still in Government in Westminster.

However considering all of the latest relevations about the parties in Downing St during lockdown; the topic of licence fee funding for the BBC being frozen by the Tories may make that commitment highly questionable at this current time.

If the Sue Gray report about the lockdown parties in Downing St unlocks any suggestion that it will not act too kindly to them in future; the Tories will be suffering with a huge amount of turmoil afterwards with the British public at the ballot box.

If the report makes any formal calls in it to carry out a radical punishment with the how the UK is being run at the moment. It would act as the major indicator of an instant P45 for the Tory government currently in power at Westminster.

Anyway the main question yet to be addressed on the matter as the Tories are still in power for now is if more cutbacks were happen to BBC Four in the near future with maybe all of it's content being swapped over to BBC Two; Would you be happy with seeing that change even when you don't pay for the BBC licence fee here in Ireland.

You wouldn't be happy with all of that BBC Four archive content being stuck on iPlayer in the UK?

BBC Four acquires first original drama series from the Faroe Islands.

The highly anticipated six-part show is based on the crime novels of Jógvan Isaksen and filmed in the Faroe Islands.

Sounds interesting!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/faroe-islands-crime-drama-trom

I watched a few of those rocco schiavone ones really excellent. Going by IMDB there seems to be a tonne of them

watched the first couple of episodes of The Promise and thought it was pretty good so far.

Mentioned this on the film forum as well that BBC Four are showing a Korean movie, Burning, at 10pm on Saturday. I thoroughly enjoyed this when I first saw it and it gained a lot of praise when it came out. Worth a look. Very absorbing story that keeps you on your toes.

Beck is back on BBC4... Saturday 7th May with Series 8.

Also, for fans of Eurocrime, in the Friday night slot on More4, Nordic Murders (aka more apt name Baltic Crimes) will takeover from Crimson Rivers on Friday 13th May.

That's great news. Brilliant series. As are the original books. Just checked the bbc 4 website and there are two repeat episodes airing at its traditional 9pm Saturday slot, starting tomorrow night. Hopefully the new episodes will follow.

Is there a date yet when over-the-air is ceasing?

Boys from the Blackstuff starts next week

Talk about an actor's varied career... Bernard Hill (from Manchester) playing Yosser (quintessential Scouser) in Boys of the Blackstuff and ending up in roles like the Captain of the Titanic & then King of the Horselords in Lord of the Rings!

Sounds great