BBC gave us The Night Manager....now Undercover

[1964white]

Just watching an old episode of Spooks....way ahead of it's time

Terrorist group infiltrated a mosque encouraging young men to become suicide bombers....frightening !!

[gessa]

Spooks was excellent tv.
Some of it must have been very close to the truth.

[1964white]

John Le Carre's best selling thriller

The Night Manager ?

Compelling stuff

Wow !

Sunday nights won't be the same again

[whiteswan]

Wow !

Sunday nights won't be the same again

Just sitting down with a glass of vino to watch the first episode 64. Two, three, four, five and six will follow over the next couple of nights...looking forward to it after your recommendation

[1964white]

Just sitting down with a glass of vino to watch the first episode 64. Two, three, four, five and six will follow over the next couple of nights...looking forward to it after your recommendation

Slow burner the first episode as you become accustomed to the characters & the plot

Just gets better & better

Mrs 64 wasn't keen at first but was buzzing for the next episode as the series went on

You'll love it Swan

[YorkshireSquare]

Just watching an old episode of Spooks....way ahead of it's time

Terrorist group infiltrated a mosque encouraging young men to become suicide bombers....frightening !!

Loved Spooks, gutted when it was cancelled.

Unlike most dramas main characters would survive a series only to die 2 episodes into the next, you were never quite sure who was going to survive an episode.

[whiteswan]

Slow burner the first episode as you become accustomed to the characters & the plot

Just gets better & better

Mrs 64 wasn't keen at first but was buzzing for the next episode as the series went on

You'll love it Swan

One and two down....four to go

[1964white]

The press have been raving about The Night Manager, full pages in some of the papers

Best series on the telly in years. Like a good album or a bottle of wine you need to give it time to mature, this series was a slow burner with slick costumes & beautiful locations cumulating with the tension ratcheted up to excruciating levels. Talk of a sequel

Hugh Laurie played the nasty bit of work superbly, his stare scared the living daylights out of me

Tom Hiddleston odds of becoming the next James Bond have dropped from 25/1 to 9/4 favourite

More more more please :luv:

[Mrs64]

Tom Hiddletson as The Night Manager, oof :luv:

The series was great too

[whiteswan]

Yes! Wow! Just finished episode six. Brilliant, brilliant drama played out by brilliant brilliant actors. Hugh Laurie awesome as was Olivia Coleman (so chilled and relaxed) and Tom Hiddleston was perfection. (Loved the bit where he ordered a vodka martini in the casino...a sign of thing to come for this actor maybe?)
Two gripes! Gripe one! Why oh why didn't the BBC give us a synopsis of what had gone on in the previous episode? They do it with most dramas. We watched this on consecutive nights but still had to run the last few minutes of the previous episode to get back into what had gone on.
Gripe two! The end of an episode, fantastic music, we sit there digesting what we have just seen. Then! within two seconds of the programme ending, some voice comes on telling us what's on next and what's on during the next week. So distracting. People have complained about this but the BBC dont seem to care. It really is so flipping annoying.

[1964white]

Glad you were enthralled along with six million other viewers Swan

Those who didn't see this series have missed a real treat

[The Subhuman]

Yes! Wow! Just finished episode six. Brilliant, brilliant drama played out by brilliant brilliant actors. Hugh Laurie awesome as was Olivia Coleman (so chilled and relaxed) and Tom Hiddleston was perfection. (Loved the bit where he ordered a vodka martini in the casino...a sign of thing to come for this actor maybe?)
Two gripes! Gripe one! Why oh why didn't the BBC give us a synopsis of what had gone on in the previous episode? They do it with most dramas. We watched this on consecutive nights but still had to run the last few minutes of the previous episode to get back into what had gone on.
Gripe two! The end of an episode, fantastic music, we sit there digesting what we have just seen. Then! within two seconds of the programme ending, some voice comes on telling us what's on next and what's on during the next week. So distracting. People have complained about this but the BBC dont seem to care. It really is so flipping annoying.

becoming a wind up..the worst is with documentaries or lifestyl shows where they show you what's going to happen...that takes 5-6 minutes then theme music and then the doco...ITV do it before commercial breaks for fear people will turn over I guess.

I'm afraid it catering for the lowest common denominator

[whiteswan]

becoming a wind up..the worst is with documentaries or lifestyl shows where they show you what's going to happen...that takes 5-6 minutes then theme music and then the doco...ITV do it before commercial breaks for fear people will turn over I guess.

I'm afraid it catering for the lowest common denominator

Agree faaip. Also annoying is when a programme comes back on after adverts and they recap what we've just seen in the last 3 three minutes! Like you say, usually documentaries or reality TV. Irritating!

[1964white]

Well that was good.....first episode of Undercover

[gessa]

Well that was good.....first episode of Undercover

Not sure yet, hope it gathers a bit more pace.

[1964white]

Not sure yet, hope it gathers a bit more pace.

You said the same about The Night Manager mate & missed a treat

[gessa]

You said the same about The Night Manager mate & missed a treat

Actually I turned that off after 15 minutes, didn't warm to it at all. But tbh I find most of today's tv drama's are too long winded, even the excellent Broadchurch was an episode or two too long.