I'll give it a try, thanks.

very good well worth watching as long as you can get around the idea of rooting for people who are actualy serious criminals.

I enjoyed Dexter, so that shouldn't be a problem.

I'm enjoying Dan Snow's 2-parter on D-Day. Concentrating on the intelligence side of the operation, it makes an interesting alternative to the usual blood 'n' guts

The other one i would reccommend is

Romanzo Criminale.

An Italian made series about the criminal underworld in Rome. Absolutely superb

Just watched the pilot and it looks pretty good.

You got BluRay?

BluRay? Bit fancy for me, that.

Watched the first one last night , Pretty good.

I'll be tuning in to BBC2 Horizon at 9.00pm tonight - The Secret Life of the Cat. 50 cats from a Surrey village are fitted with trackers and CatCams

Anyone been watching Dates this week on Channel 4?

I have.

What do you think?

Really enjoying it myself and one of the better things I've seen on TV recently. Interesting characters, some great dialogue and some slightly cringeworthy moments. Considering the episodes are only half an hour, it's really well paced and the characters are quite nicely developed.

Its fantastic although I missed out on the second series

Up to episode 7 of Sons of Anarchy and I am quite enjoying it. Watched a couple of episodes of Arrested Development and I didn't hate it, but probably wouldn't be bothered if I never saw another one.

Watched the documentary on the great British war photojournalist Don McCullin last night on BBC1.
From Cyprus to Nam to Biafra to NI to the Lebanon.
This bloke has seen the horror of what man can do to other man, been there and seen it all.
Even so he spoke in a very moving, poignant and humanitarian way about the suffering he had personally witnessed.
Recommended viewing if available on Iplayer.

Just found a trailer for anyone interested.

[urlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/06/mccullin-review-documentary-don-mccullin[/url

Oh wow - I want to watch that one, tonight, iPlayer, don't disturb me.

Lump in the throat job when he goes into Biafra and describes the effect the war had amongst the starving, dying children.
Especially the albino child.
Went to get us a drink in the kitchen so I could hide behind the fridge freezer to straighten myself out JC.

If anyone thought Mrs Brown's Boys was peurile sh[ii[/ite, be prepared for new levels of sh[ii[/itery when Count Arthur Strong transfers from Radio 4 to BBC2.

Where Mrs Brown is a poor man's version of Old Mother Riley, Arthur Strong just seems to have taken all the worst bits from Harry Worth and put them in a contemporary setting.

I'd love to know who commissions this crap

Arthur Strong is a great radio comedy, also looks good on Youtube as a stage show - not sure how it will convert to TV though.

And I used to be bored rigid by Harry Worth.

I've got this recorded and have only watched the opening ten minutes so far, I deliberately stopped watching because I reckon it deserves watching in a single sitting.
I've been a McCullin fan ever since I saw an exhibition of his work at the Museum of London back in the 1990's (not the more recent one at the Imperial War Museum which received great acclaim).
At most exhibitions there are pictures you can just pass by ... but not at that one, each one arrested your attention and really made you think.

I've never heard him talking about it before and I'll be watching it this weekend.

I think he must be a "Marmite" performer because whilst I loved his various Radio 4 series and would roar with laughter at them, La Senora would be looking at me totally mystified, she simply just didn't "get" him.

Harry Worth was just a gentle blunderer, whereas Arthur Strong has a snobbily inflated sense of self-importance.

I'll give the TV a go but, as with many other transfers, it might not work.

Never watched it, the trailers were enough to put me off.

Fantastic program, watched it last night on a tablet with headphones on, totally ignored the rest of the family in the room even though I could see them trying to talk to me



This documentary should be shown as part of the national history curriculum along with examples of his work - also highlighted Andrew Neil and Rupert Murdoch as destroyers of a fine tradition of sunday newspaper campaigning and informing in favour of pandering to frivolous advertisers who didn't want nasty foreign war, famine and death pictures in the same magazines as their products - so a double bonus.

Glad you enjoyed it JC, and that you are going to EB.
Not a great connoisseur of photography, although some of his photos definitely resonated.
None more so for me than the shell-shocked soldier in Vietnam which is particulary haunting.