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

[Willie Trombone]

The Secrets She Keeps (TV Series 2020– ) - IMDb

The Secrets She Keeps: Created by Michael Robotham, Sarah Walker. With Jessica De Gouw, Laura Carmichael, Ryan Corr, Cariba Heine. A chance encounter between two pregnant women in a supermarket just outside of Sydney.

www.imdb.com

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...

Aussie / Kiwi TV shows

Like the Euro / Brit thread but for Aussie / Kiwi shows. There are enough really good shows to make a thread IMO. I'll start with some of my favs. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3914672/ I think there are two seasons of this - season 1 is the best IMO but a great show.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[dualmeister]

 

[Willie Trombone]

That looked choc full of spoilers

 

[hilton]

That looked choc full of spoilers

but only if you remember them

 

[Willie Trombone]

but only if you remember them

True. One of these days we're going to be able to watch our fav movie on repeat.

 

[dualmeister]

 

[rambo919]

That looked choc full of spoilers

The only spoilers you need is the one woman is very fertile and the other is bat-poop crazy......

 

[dualmeister]

Van Der Valk.

Enjoying this. 3 x 1.5 hour episodes. .

Van Der Valk (TV Series 2020–2022) - IMDb

Van Der Valk: Created by Chris Murray. With Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Luke Allen-Gale, Elliot Barnes-Worrell. A Dutch detective takes on criminal cases in Amsterdam using insightful human observation and his natural street smarts.

www.imdb.com

 

[Willie Trombone]

Van Der Valk.

Enjoying this. 3 x 1.5 hour episodes. .

Van Der Valk (TV Series 2020–2022) - IMDb

Van Der Valk: Created by Chris Murray. With Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Luke Allen-Gale, Elliot Barnes-Worrell. A Dutch detective takes on criminal cases in Amsterdam using insightful human observation and his natural street smarts.

www.imdb.com

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

 

[dualmeister]

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

English actors. English language. ITV. Happens to be in Amsterdam. More British than Euro IMO.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Van Der Valk.

Enjoying this. 3 x 1.5 hour episodes. .

Van Der Valk (TV Series 2020–2022) - IMDb

Van Der Valk: Created by Chris Murray. With Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Luke Allen-Gale, Elliot Barnes-Worrell. A Dutch detective takes on criminal cases in Amsterdam using insightful human observation and his natural street smarts.

www.imdb.com

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.

 

[Grouter]

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...."

 

[dualmeister]

The original was 1972.

Van der Valk 1972
Made it to 5 seasons.

Finished 2020 one. I watcheded far worse. Then again Marc Warren is one of my favourite actors.

 

[hilton]

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.

 

[rrh]

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

 

[rrh]

The original was 1972.

Van der Valk 1972
Made it to 5 seasons.

If I am not mistaken it was translated into Afrikaans and broadcast on SABC-TV

 

[dualmeister]

First episode was not the best. Hopefully picks up.

Season 3 sucks to be honest.

 

[Spizz]

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.

 

[WaxLyrical]

Thoughts?

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Thoughts?

Nah...