Topic: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?

[6pairsofshoes]

Done with Slow Horses, season 4;  have to wait for season 5.  We got out Station Eleven last night.  The first episode is very good.  I had started watching it a couple years ago and got distracted so never finished the first season (don't know if there's a second).

Also the new season of what my husband calls "Tick and Whale" (All Creatures Great and Small) came on last night.  You kind of need insulin handy to get through it but for what it is, it's decent.

[smokester]

Also the new season of what my husband calls "Tick and Whale" (All Creatures Great and Small) came on last night.  You kind of need insulin handy to get through it but for what it is, it's decent.

All you need to do now is watch "Last of the Summer Wine" and you'll be a shoo-in for a British passport.

[smokester]

Compo is something of a role model for me.

Only half your age too.

[6pairsofshoes]

The Last of the Summer Wine has been on public tv here but the music always caused me to change the channel.  It was written by the same guys who wrote Keeping Up Appearances, which I liked. I never got to watch enough of it to identify individual characters.

[goldshirt*9]

Recently finished the TV series

American Primevil, I do like a good "Western" and I enjoyed this a lot. Interesting ending and I imagine there will be a second series.
How true to life this is, I have no idea ?

[6pairsofshoes]

That looks interesting.
We recently discovered Pluto tv.  It's a streaming network that has shows like Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, but they are on a continuous loop so you have to keep streaming them, like a forced binge watch.  It's ok if you have already seen the show or if it's a series that is reduced to singular episodes (like Red Dwarf, or Beavis and scoundrel -- two of the comedy offerings).  They have ads, but it's not bad since most of them aren't for drugs -- a relief after amazon prime.  Really, since you don't have to pay for this, unlike prime video, it's worth it.  I can't see how amazon can expect people to pay for their videos if one can access similar quality content with ads.  They'll have to step up their game, imho.

Anyway, Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad are two fine shows that easily stand up to a second viewing.

I can't remember the name of the Canadian series in which the French are settling wilderness there in the 17th/18th cc.  But it seems similar in tone to the clip you posted above.  I'll dig around and see if I can find it and will post the name.  It was a good series and I kind of stopped watching in the middle because I got distracted or the season ended and I forgot to get back to it.

[8ullfrog]

I've read several times that the "endgame" for streaming is to get you to pay AND force ads.

[6pairsofshoes]

Most of the "Live TV" we watch is PBS, with mostly BBC content except for the News Hour.  I think we'll skip the news today because Agent Orange, the fascist rapist felon, is being sworn in to lead this declining nation of ours and it's just too depressing.

[smokester]

I never plan what I want to watch. I turn on the TV, and scroll through the channels until I see something I fancy, then watch it. SWMBO has appointment TV (the latest cop show, a mini-series drama etc.) On olde worlde TV scrolling has five channels, and even on cable there is only about a hundred things on at any given time, and 96 of those can be immediately ruled out, so scrolling and choosing works (or leads to me turning the TV off)

I understand streaming, and the appeal of it, and I have subscribed to all of these things so that I can stream if I want to, but I just can't do streaming at all: I turn on the Apple TV, choose one of Apple+, Netflix, Prime, Disney+, etc., etc., etc. and scroll - three hours later I am still scrolling (you know that old joke about women going through the warehouse looking for the perfect man that end up on the roof? That's me - I won't watch that because something better may be on ...)

Might as well post this:

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband.

The 1st floor sign reads: Floor 1 - These men have jobs.

The 2nd floor sign reads: Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.

The 3rd floor sign reads: Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids and are extremely good looking.

"Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the 4th floor and the sign reads: Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help with Housework. "Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

Still, she goes to the 5th floor and the sign reads: Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, help with Housework and Have A Strong Romantic Streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the 6th floor and the sign reads: Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store!!!

To avoid gender bias charges, the store's owner opens a New Wives Store just across the street. The 1st floor has wives who love sex. The 2nd floor has wives who love sex and have money. The 3rd through 6th floors have never been visited.

[christ]

Yup - that one.

(You forgot the bit about "once you go up a floor you can't go back down")