What Are You Watching

[jazzbo]

"Memphis Beat" from last week.

[A Lark Ascending]

An absolute scream - mockumentary about a Dorest morris side that upsets the morris authorities (shades of Lincoln Centre!), gets banned, leader goes of to join a new age Californian side, gets married to an American and ends up line dancing ('the dark side'!); eventually proves too much and returns to Dorest to triumph.

A gentle, charming comedy - not sure if it's taking the piss out of morris or sports commentary. The Californian sequence is hilarious.

If you liked Brassed Off you'll like this.

Edited August 22, 2010 by A Lark Ascending

[kinuta]

The Forsyte Saga- original BBC series (1967)

Up to episode 13. TV at it's zenith, makes you wonder how it got to it's present sorry state.

[Jazzmoose]

I rewatched the House of Cards trilogy over the last week or so. Ian Richardson was just fantastic!

Edited August 22, 2010 by Jazzmoose

[kinuta]

Rubicon.

Love the fact that it doesn't play to the lowest common denominator of viewer intelligence. I'm quite caught up in trying to unravel the plot(s) but fear the slow pace and lack of action will lead the studio to do an axe job on it before it has chance to develop. Really like the Gordon Willis style cinematography.

[jazzbo]

I'm watching Rubicon too, last night's at the moment. Great show.

[Shawn]

Killer!

[kinuta]

Still working my way through The Forsyte Saga, next up episode 22 with four more episodes to go.

Think I'll start on 'Dallas' next !

[jazzbo]

Veronica Mars, Season Three.

I really liked the first season, I thought the second was pretty good. . . this one. . . a bit of a letdown.

[jazzbo]

Metal and Prog Rockin' in the Free World

[paul secor]

Don Redman's Band in a Vitaphone short on TCM.

[jlhoots]

True Blood - almost caught up on Season 3 which we've had on DVR.

[kinuta]

Just finished rewatching A Perfect Spy, the BBC series. 1987 by Peter Smith.

[Shawn]

Alias - Season One

Is it a bad thing when your least favorite character is the primary one?

[jazzbo]

I know what you mean. In this series, there's enough of Arvin Sloan, Jack Bristow, Irina Derevko, Anna Esposito. etc. for me to really enjoy the series.

[Shawn]

[jazzbo]

Esperanza Spalding on Austin City Limits. Not entirely sold on her bass playing or singing, but she sure is a lovely lady.

[kinuta]

WB Story. You Must Remember This

Edited September 5, 2010 by kinuta

[Free For All]

Esperanza Spalding on Austin City Limits. Not entirely sold on her bass playing or singing, but she sure is a lovely lady.

I saw that too and agree with you on all counts.

[Matthew]

On TV 1: A very good documentary on Bootsy Collins

[kinuta]

This weeks episode of the fascinating, complex Rubicon. I suppose we should savour this before the inevitable corporate axe falls. It's way too smart and subtle to survive into a second season.

[jazzbo]

Word. Great show.

[paul secor]

Was flicking through the channels on Saturday & came across an late 70's Lawrence Welk show on a PBS station. Thought I detected Barney Kessel and Earl Palmer in the ryhthm section, and sure enough it was they. Kept watching in the hopes that one or both would get a solo.

Earl Palmer was featured on a couple of short breaks, but that was it. Wonder if it was a one time thing.

[mikelz777]

The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash

So who here's heard of Ron Nasty, Dirk McQuickly, Stig O'hara and Barry Wom? I think that this is a great mockumentary and that Neil Innes' original Beatlesque songs were absolutely brilliant. He really captured the essence of their sound without falling back on just churning out a direct copy. Funny stuff though I'd say that the contributions of the Saturday Night Live players were probably the weakest moments for me. Fans of the Beatles who've followed them enough to know their movies, videos, concert footage and such should be impressed with how good this really is. Very well done.

Edited September 13, 2010 by mikelz777

[jazzbo]

I saw it over thirty years ago. I'm good.

edited for spelling

Edited September 13, 2010 by jazzbo