Watching Moving On - repeats - they are so well made, written, acted (I do like Lee Ingleby in today's episode). Subtle. Intelligent. Far superior to the prime time evening stuff. Why?

And Keith Barron; another excellent older actor.

JK2006 wrote:
Watching Moving On - repeats - they are so well made, written, acted (I do like Lee Ingleby in today's episode). Subtle. Intelligent. Far superior to the prime time evening stuff. Why?

And Keith Barron; another excellent older actor.

Barron is a very under-rated actor, perhaps because he is known for the sit-com Duty Free which despite the high viewers, wasn't particularly classy.

He is very good in the exceptional 1960s movie Baby Love, which is very doubtful to ever see a DVD release (topless 15 year old girls aren't really certifiable by the BBFC.)

It must be tough to be the controller of daytime at the moment. People are always complaining that daytime TV isn't good enough, but when something arrives that IS deemed good enough the same people moan that it's being wasted in daytime and ought to be shown in prime time.

In my view, in this relatively small country, if we can produce, say, ten hours per day of genuinely impressive home-grown TV programmes, we're punching above our weight. The idea that there is enough money, creativity and manpower out there to fill one channel, let alone five, let alone 100+ satellite channels, with genuinely worthwhile original TV 24/7 seems to me to be hopelessly fanciful. So let's just applaud it where we find it. There's an increasingly large potential audience for daytime TV and these kinds of shows are just what should be the level broadcasters aim for.

Pru wrote:
It must be tough to be the controller of daytime at the moment. People are always complaining that daytime TV isn't good enough, but when something arrives that IS deemed good enough the same people moan that it's being wasted in daytime and ought to be shown in prime time.

In my view, in this relatively small country, if we can produce, say, ten hours per day of genuinely impressive home-grown TV programmes, we're punching above our weight. The idea that there is enough money, creativity and manpower out there to fill one channel, let alone five, let alone 100+ satellite channels, with genuinely worthwhile original TV 24/7 seems to me to be hopelessly fanciful. So let's just applaud it where we find it. There's an increasingly large potential audience for daytime TV and these kinds of shows are just what should be the level broadcasters aim for.

People seem to forget about the iplayer and that you can connect a laptop to a TV.

steveimp wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
Watching Moving On - repeats - they are so well made, written, acted (I do like Lee Ingleby in today's episode). Subtle. Intelligent. Far superior to the prime time evening stuff. Why?

And Keith Barron; another excellent older actor.

Barron is a very under-rated actor, perhaps because he is known for the sit-com Duty Free which despite the high viewers, wasn't particularly classy.

He is very good in the exceptional 1960s movie Baby Love, which is very doubtful to ever see a DVD release (topless 15 year old girls aren't really certifiable by the BBFC.)

Funnily enough that film is scheduled to be released on DVD on 26th January (unless some newspapers get wind of it and get the release cancelled). The BBFC have certified it 18

www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Love-DVD-Ann-Lynn/...p;keywords=baby+love

Andy wrote:
steveimp wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
Watching Moving On - repeats - they are so well made, written, acted (I do like Lee Ingleby in today's episode). Subtle. Intelligent. Far superior to the prime time evening stuff. Why?

And Keith Barron; another excellent older actor.

Barron is a very under-rated actor, perhaps because he is known for the sit-com Duty Free which despite the high viewers, wasn't particularly classy.

He is very good in the exceptional 1960s movie Baby Love, which is very doubtful to ever see a DVD release (topless 15 year old girls aren't really certifiable by the BBFC.)

Funnily enough that film is scheduled to be released on DVD on 26th January (unless some newspapers get wind of it and get the release cancelled). The BBFC have certified it 18

www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Love-DVD-Ann-Lynn/...p;keywords=baby+love

Good grief. The BBFC have become very Liberal. Linda Hayden heaven.... er, obviously when she is older.

Barry Foster once said that he owed his success in acting to being mistaken for Keith Barron.