British series, mini-series and dramas .....

Willie Trombone

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Strictly speaking it's an Aussie show, but it features Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey - Edith Crawley)
Looks interesting.

I started a Kiwi / Aussie tv series thread in this forum...
 
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dualmeister

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Van Der Valk.

Enjoying this. 3 x 1.5 hour episodes. .

 

Willie Trombone

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Van Der Valk.

Enjoying this. 3 x 1.5 hour episodes. .

Is that a Brit series? I think there's a euro series thread in here somewhere. Will give it a look ,thanks!
 

TheMightyQuinn

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Van Der Valk.

Enjoying this. 3 x 1.5 hour episodes. .


Why do they have a British actor playing a Dutch detective I wonder?

Terrible reviews....some of them really funny too. I love the Dutch heading and really LoL'ed:

Volslagen Onzin

Man alive this is bad... When the show came up in my TV listings I was excited having been a fan of Barry Foster's VdV. Within twenty minutes of the start of Marc Warren's version, my head was swimming with the sheer wretchedness of it all.
Awful, clunky dialogue
that thinks it's fast paced and witty but falls flat every time, creakingly wooden supporting actors for whom even am-dram would appear to be a bridge too far (especially Luke Allen-Gale and Darrell D'Silva as the boringly inevitable laconic pathologist), and a dullard, wannabe hip plot that spends too much time stating it's social awareness credentials but precious little engaging the viewer on any level whatsoever.

Unutterable nonsense.
 

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Re: Van der Valk: Yep, not terribly impressed. Not quite bad enough that we wanted to stop mid-episode, but at one stage my finger hovered over the button whilst I looked at the wife who said: "Well, it's this or M*A*S*H...."
 

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at one stage my finger hovered over the button whilst I looked at the wife who said: "Well, it's this or M*A*S*H...."
I threaten my wife with 'SAS Who Dares Wins'. She thinks the main guy is a moffie. Don't care either way but she hates all the 'unnecessary' swearing.
 

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Why do they have a British actor playing a Dutch detective I wonder?

Terrible reviews....some of them really funny too. I love the Dutch heading and really LoL'ed:

Volslagen Onzin

Man alive this is bad... When the show came up in my TV listings I was excited having been a fan of Barry Foster's VdV. Within twenty minutes of the start of Marc Warren's version, my head was swimming with the sheer wretchedness of it all.
Awful, clunky dialogue
that thinks it's fast paced and witty but falls flat every time, creakingly wooden supporting actors for whom even am-dram would appear to be a bridge too far (especially Luke Allen-Gale and Darrell D'Silva as the boringly inevitable laconic pathologist), and a dullard, wannabe hip plot that spends too much time stating it's social awareness credentials but precious little engaging the viewer on any level whatsoever.

Unutterable nonsense.

If anything an understaement
 

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I threaten my wife with 'SAS Who Dares Wins'. She thinks the main guy is a moffie. Don't care either way but she hates all the 'unnecessary' swearing.

My wife loves this show. Nothing to do of course with her fancying the main guy Ant.
 
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