General Chat

I shall google them and pass them on to No.1.

We've already fallen behind on the US remake of The Killing. Didn't get around to watching the 2 hours I taped the weekend before, forgot about it on this past Sunday night for episode 3. So he'll be downloading again ...

He's just got all existing episodes of Monroe and Rake (Australian) recommended to me in my other thread (we watched the first one of each to make sure we wanted them all), so we're stocked up for a little bit, but the summer doldrums of North American TV will soon be upon us. ;)

For now, of course, the Stanley Cup playoffs are filling the schedule .....................

Janey, I hope you enjoy the Frontier House (it's a sort of reality thing but I like watching the way families react when in different to usual situations.)

The Boat that Guy Built is so interesting, his passion for engineering etc is contagious and the friendship with his pal 'Mavis' Davis is great, not sure I could ever see Guy settling down as a family man lol

Lizx

I just googled him - Guy Martin - and he was born only a few months before my son, yet seems a lot older than 29. I would have put him in his mid thirties! Quite a lot online about his motorbike racing career.

We watched the lat two episodes last night, finally! Quite enjoyed it. I'm always a bit surprised when No.1 likes a historical drama, but he seemed to.

The final scenes were really quite well done, given that we knew what was happening at both ends and how they were about to converge.

So now, having read the thread, I see I have to go find out what The Boat that Guy built and The Indian Doctor and The Frontier House are. ;)

The daughter in present-day Brinkburn St, the truly annoying one, where do I know her well from?

I watched it all in one go, and really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed the last part altho had sort of guessed the ending, having seen Poppy rooting around in that hole in the wall when she lost her phone, I thought she would feel something gruesome when she was fishing about to retrieve it! Would love to see a further series showing what happened after they found the body, did they call the police or bundle up the bones and dump them somewhere?

I did also wonder if Francis/Sid ever got to travel to America or if the person hunting him down, found him first. Also wondered how Violet would fare travelling alone in her pregnant state and how she would find Francis( if he arrived), unless he managed to send an address before she went.

All left so much up in the air, so plenty of scope for more!

Lizx


Did anyone else watch The Indian Doctor which was shown at a similar time a few months ago, I missed it and even missed the repeats as well.

I am enjoying The Boat that Guy built, it's funny and interesting too, so much to learn about the way things were done and he is such a character as is his friend Mavis Davies lol

The Frontier House is quite good too (Channel 4)

I've stopped, don't worry! I just wanted to report in that the deed has been done. ;)

Thanks, all!

LOL Janey , I hope you enjoy it : ))

You'll have to stop looking at this thread because we can't help chewing it all over , we have been on the edges of our seats each day this week , waiting to see the plot unfold .

I'm covering my eyes and going wah wah ...

No.1 is downloading it as we speak - thanks!

Maybe we could ask the BBC if there is anything in the pipeline to follow !!
That would be a great story line with the child born in America to come looking for her/his roots.
I think we could maybe all write a script and sent it off to BBC lolol

Jane , I was rather hoping that maybe a Grandchild of the " missing " sister would appear , looking for the Brinkburn Street family .

I believe it was on in the afternoon because there is a new " head " at the BBC and they have promised to screen some good . new ,dramas in the afternoon . Hopefully there might be more like this one to follow ?

I just want to know what happened after they broke through the bricks and found the skeleton and candlestick(or whatever it was) covered in old blood.
I thought this Drama was just so well done.It should be put on in the evening ,not in the afternoon.Great well known actors in it too.

And what I meant to say -- one of my favourite movies that I can never remember the name of, I can only remember that it has loads of stars in it, and Robert Cummings is the male lead for the modern day part.

It's WWII and it's about a house from the time it's first built, which might be the 1700s, to when it's being bombed during the Blitz.

Here we are,

"robert cummings" house bombed

finds it for me.


Forever and a Day. Recommended for people who like this kinda stuff. ;)


http://www.answers.com/topic/forever-and-a-day-film-1

The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator.

The true star of the film is a stately old manor house in London, built in 1804 by a British admiral (C. Aubrey Smith) and blitzed in 1940 by one Adolf Hitler. Through the portals of this house pass a vast array of Britons, from high-born to low.

The earliest scenes involve gay blade Lt. William Trimble (Ray Milland), wronged country-girl Susan (Anna Neagle), and wicked landowner Ambrose Pomfret (Claude Rains).

We move on to a comic interlude involving dotty Mr. Simpson (Reginald Owen), eternally drunken butler Bellamy (Charles Laughton), and cockney plumbers Mr. Dabb (Cedric Hardwicke) and Wilkins (Buster Keaton).

Maidservant Jenny (Ida Lupino) takes over the plot during the Boer War era, while the World War I sequence finds the house converted into a way-station for soldiers (including Robert Cummings) and anxious families (including Roland Young and Gladys Cooper).

Finally we arrive in 1940, with American Gates Pomfret (Kent Smith) and lady-of-the-house Lesley Trimble (Ruth Warrick) surveying the bombed-out manor, and exulting over the fact that the portrait of the home's founder, Adm. Eustace Trimble (Smith), has remained intact -- symbolic proof of England's durability in its darkest hours.

The huge cast includes Dame May Whitty, Edward Everett Horton, Wendy Barrie, Merle Oberon, Nigel Bruce, Richard Haydn, Donald Crisp, and a host of others -- some appearing in sizeable roles, others (like Arthur Treacher and Patric Knowles) willingly accepting one-scene bits, simply to participate in the undertaking. Seven directors and 21 writers were also swept up in the project.

Forever and a Day was supposed to have been withdrawn from circulation after the war and its prints destroyed so that no one could profit from what was supposed to have been an act of industry charity. Happily for future generations, prints have survived and are now safely preserved.



I haven't seen it in a few years. Maybe I'll go bug No.1 for that, too ... and then force him to watch it.

I hope you do manage to get hold of it Janey , I'm sure it will not disappoint you , the way it links the eras together is most clever : )

I'm not reading this thread because there seem to be spoilers !!!!!

But it sounds like something else I can hound No.1 to download so we can watch it here. (the online BBC player doesn't work for us foreigners)

Sadly, there seems to have been a big purge of the BBC things available at not-so-secret places on the net ...

I totally agree with you CrumblingCookie and I thought it didn't seem " finished " at the end , I certainly would like to see a few of the loose ends tied up .
Hats of you the writer and production team .

It was absolutely BRILLIANT.Nothing mentioned about a follow up though.

Hello Liz , I'm pleased to hear your enjoying it as well .

Episode three has thickened the plot even more , I'm finding myself wishing the days away as I'm so eager to see the outcome of the story ...lol

I am recording it daily and catching up with it late at night, it's very good when you can keep up with the chopping and changing of eras.

Lizx

Good isn't it ...... lol

I must say , the cast are all spot on as well . Lots of faces that I've seen in dramas in the past .

I particularly like the small details , like the way Frank always shoves at the front door before he opens it , then you see his Mother doing the same thing back in 1931 , because it has always stuck . The house is really the central character in the story .

I think they will keep us hanging before we find out the truth of the secret in the attic .

Crumbling Cookie ....... I had been thinking that Frank might be the son of the lodger myself . I'm hoping the body in the attic is the crook that robbed the Church , hence the candle stick being chucked in with him ?

Time will tell ........... .