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Kapitan_Phillips
09-22-07, 06:04 PM
Just curious :)
I haven't heard of any of those. Are they on in the UK?
I enjoyed the 1st complete Sherlock.H reading radio 4 did with C.Hobbs but not the second one...I forget who acted in that one.
I can't stand A.Christie, but perhaps the wireless doesn't do her justice. It put me off ever reading her anyway. :shifty:
Kapitan_Phillips
09-22-07, 06:20 PM
I haven't heard of any of those. Are they on in the UK?
I enjoyed the 1st complete Sherlock.H reading radio 4 did with C.Hobbs but not the second one...I forget who acted in that one.
I can't stand A.Christie, but perhaps the wireless doesn't do her justice. It put me off ever reading her anyway. :shifty:
Christ, dont you ever watch Channel 5? ;)
I haven't heard of any of those. Are they on in the UK?
I enjoyed the 1st complete Sherlock.H reading radio 4 did with C.Hobbs but not the second one...I forget who acted in that one.
I can't stand A.Christie, but perhaps the wireless doesn't do her justice. It put me off ever reading her anyway. :shifty:
Christ, dont you ever watch Channel 5? ;)
People watch Channel 5?! :huh::doh:
Kapitan_Phillips
09-22-07, 06:28 PM
Yes, for CSI, Law and Order and cheesy mid-nineties action movies. ;)
bigboywooly
09-22-07, 06:29 PM
The Hallmark channel has a lot of the Law and Order spin offs
SVU is a personal fave of mine though I do watch the others
The News on Channel 5 is a total joke!
British for me. :p
Sherlock Holmes TV Series starring the late Jeremy Brett who was the best of them all, give me a good solid story any day of the week. :smug:
Nuts to these flash shows of today.
The News on Channel 5 is a total joke!
As for that weather girl. :rotfl:
Kapitan_Phillips
09-22-07, 06:34 PM
British for me. :p
Sherlock Holmes TV Series starring the late Jeremy Brett who was the best of them all, give me a good solid story any day of the week. :smug:
Nuts to these flash shows of today.
Aye, a bit of a Midsomer Murders watcher, me :rotfl:
Oh!!! I know what I like!
It's a comedy/crime with ingenious crime puzzles.
The main detective is a noteable british comedian appears on 'QI' (David....(?) ).
He has lots of curley hair.
In the program he lives in a windmill with his fictional wife who is also a noteable british comedian.
I just can't remember the dammed name!
*edit* Jonathan Creek! With Alan Davis and Caroline Quentin!
http://www.chocolatespoon.com/musings/images/jonathancreek.jpg
Bloody fantastic that was!
I find Caroline Quentin very sexy and I'm not sure why.
Aye, a bit of a Midsomer Murders watcher, me :rotfl:
Don't forget your coco and rich tea biscuit. :)
kiwi_2005
09-22-07, 07:09 PM
Texas Ranger :rock:
:rotfl:
Skybird
09-22-07, 07:19 PM
Can't get any entertainment from at least nine out of ten contemporary series. It's all plastic world to me.
Remembering my love for Johnathan Creek I have started watching the 3rd episode (never seen this one!).
A actor with arthritis so bad that he could never hold a gun and shoot himself has been
found dead in a bunker 30ft underground, sorrounded by solid rock with a gun in his hand. He was shot through
the head. On the way down to the bunker the police had to break down a wooden door
locked from the inside and cut through a thick steel door; also locked from the inside.
The only other "entrance" to the bunker/cellar is a 4 inch pipe that goes down into the
floor. :doh:
I'm stumped! Any guesses?
*edit* More Clues!
That 4 inch pipe is for a toilet that was never installed. There was a suspicious bit of cotton wool near it!
In a box full of toilet rool and light bulbs there was a 100W light bulb in a box marked 40W bulbs. :hmm:
*edit2* Oh it's so simple now!
Of the suggestions in the poll list, I can't really take any of them too seriously.
They pass the time, but CSI takes to extremes the farcical fantasy many TV shows of that ilk perpetuate, i.e. the supposed 'crime scene investigators' who, aside from their work in the moodily-lit labaroratory, apparently also have the job of making arrests, interrogating suspects, carrying out undercover surveillance, doing the associated detective work, working out psychological profiles etc, etc. In fact, it seems about the only thing they don't do is hand out speeding tickets.
Someone also needs to point out that when you go to a crime scene in a house, you don't actually need to use a torch, if you simply turn the lights on it will be far easier to spot clues.
And why the constant need to flashback the obvious throughout the entire program? Like this...
Detective 1: What do you think happened here?
Detective 2: I think the victim was shot by a sniper rifle.
Cue slo-mo footage of sniper rifle in grainy duo tones with echoey sound.
Yes, thank you, we know what a sniper rifle is, get on with it!
I'm waiting for them to do CSI Derbyshire, I can see it now: theme tune will obviously have to be another song by The Who, so I'll go for Boris the Spider. A typical episode will involve the theft of a tractor and its subsequent recovery in a field four miles away.
:D Chock
d@rk51d3
09-22-07, 11:31 PM
NCIS
....... cos Abby is sooooo HOT!:yep:
Spruence M
09-23-07, 12:20 AM
I liked the old school Law and order.
But other would be either Equalizer or Mike Hammer.
The Avon Lady
09-23-07, 01:35 AM
First choice:
Roy Marsden as P.D. James' Inspector Adam Dalgleish.
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/9474/jamesdalgleishgw1.jpg
2nd choice:
CSI Las Vegas. I find NY mediocre and Maimi too soap opera like.
3rd choice:
The Law & Order series, in general. I can't pick out one sub-series from another. Many good episodes overall, with some flops sprinkled among them but nobody's perfect.
Want to get nostalgic? Consider Perry Mason (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-2847172-5404756?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=perry+Mason) and Hawaii 5-0 (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_d/102-2017472-0844116?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=hawaii+5-0). Almsot no special effects and some classic acting.
The Munster
09-23-07, 03:33 AM
Columbo.
Channel 5 News ? What happened to Kirsty Young ? [Smiley with tongue hanging out here !]
Kapitan_Phillips
09-23-07, 03:59 AM
You cant foget Walker: Texas Ranger!
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000JLTRMC.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V36734247_.jpg
The Avon Lady
09-23-07, 04:12 AM
You cant foget Walker: Texas Ranger!
If you can't forget it, then why wasn't it in your poll choices? :p
Kapitan_Phillips
09-23-07, 06:37 AM
You cant foget Walker: Texas Ranger! If you can't forget it, then why wasn't it in your poll choices? :p
Because I was smitten with a temporary lapse of creative genius. :rotfl:
TLAM Strike
09-23-07, 10:12 AM
#1 NCIS
#2 DaVinci's Inquest
#3 Law and Order: SVU
AntEater
09-23-07, 10:38 AM
Best thing in Crime recently on German TV was "Örnen", a danish miniseries.
Can't really say much about the US shows, as we only get them dubbed and that destroys most of the dialogue anyway.
While Germans are certainly crime show fans, most german made crime shows are british style whodunits that are about as realistic as the above mentioned "midsummer murders".
There are exceptions, but I generally do not watch german crime shows.
Best german cop show recently was "KDD", a really depressing show about a run down precinct in Berlin with quite realistic problems like immigrant violence, poverty crime, neglect and corruption.
sunvalleyslim
09-23-07, 03:21 PM
too busy with Subsim forum, SH3+GWX, and hoping to start SH4 soon...........TV is boring....great military books are better......Read whatever you like more often
Sailor Steve
09-23-07, 03:21 PM
Hill Street Blues
Wiseguy
Homicide: Life On The Street
Those are the ones I liked so much I bought them on DVD
Oh yeah: I like the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes too.
The Munster
09-23-07, 04:22 PM
Oh yeah, Hill Street Blues, liked the intro music but that guy in charge [Furillo ?] was so annoyingly calm all the time :damn:
Tchocky
09-23-07, 04:25 PM
Dammit Letum, now i have to go off and watch Qi for a few hours!
:D
Sailor Steve
09-23-07, 04:29 PM
Oh yeah, Hill Street Blues, liked the intro music but that guy in charge [Furillo ?] was so annoyingly calm all the time :damn:
He was a time bomb waiting to go off! Did you ever see the episode where the guy attacked his wife? Or the one where a fellow captain called her "barbie doll"? He was calm on purpose, because he was actually barely in control.:stare:
NCIS.,then The UNIT.:sunny:
The WosMan
09-23-07, 04:55 PM
The Shield.
bradclark1
09-23-07, 05:23 PM
TV is boring....great military books are better......Read whatever you like more often
Amen!
The Munster
09-24-07, 02:34 AM
Oh yeah, Hill Street Blues, liked the intro music but that guy in charge [Furillo ?] was so annoyingly calm all the time :damn:
He was a time bomb waiting to go off! Did you ever see the episode where the guy attacked his wife? Or the one where a fellow captain called her "barbie doll"? He was calm on purpose, because he was actually barely in control.:stare:
Don't think we got to see all of the episodes over here; for years I wondered if there was one were he actually loses his rag ! Bad for his health to keep things bottled up all the time :rotfl:
I love Law and Order, especially when uber-detective Lennie Briscoe was catching the bad guys, but Inspector Morse is really the gold standard. The plots and acting in that series were second to none.
Kapitan_Phillips
09-24-07, 06:46 AM
Cadfael :D
:rotfl:
Cadfael :D
:rotfl:
I'm serious...honestly.
It has everything, hot persuits of criminals on the run, forensic science that puts Bones in her place, the lawlessness of the frontier between two countries, the collaspe of civil society, and the corruption of thoe wielding power.
The Avon Lady
09-24-07, 07:32 AM
I almost forgot (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088503/). :D
There was one other one which is new, Shark starring James Woods.
SUBMAN1
09-24-07, 12:10 PM
My other comment - None! :D I don't watch TV that much anyway.
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bookworm_020
09-25-07, 12:26 AM
Law and Order SVU is the pick of the bunch with regular law & Order in second.
We do watch CSI, either original or Miami, NY is a no go.:down:
d@rk51d3
09-25-07, 12:59 AM
My other comment - None! :D I don't watch TV that much anyway.
I know what you mean. Nothing really worth watching most of the time.
The wife just "persuaded" me to buy her a 42" plasma. So now with some digital reception, I have a few more options, but they won't take long to wear thin.
Kapitan_Phillips
09-25-07, 04:26 AM
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They should make a Columbo video game. :rock:
They should make a Columbo video game. :rock:
No thank you how many times has he said "Just one more question."
Kapitan_Phillips
09-25-07, 07:29 AM
No, really, it'd be good. You could choose how you ask questions, and whether or not to play dumb!
I actually watch every show listed in the poll.:o It's difficult to pick between the three Law and Order series and the original CSI, as I really like them all. I watch CSI: Miami fairly often as well, but at times, it seems kind of annoying and cheesy. I didn't like CSI: NY at all when it first aired (the characters seemed too dull, for one thing), but I am starting to watch it a bit more lately.
nikimcbee
10-02-07, 11:15 PM
I say OJ or Brittney Spears.:rotfl:
Zayphod
10-03-07, 02:05 PM
Just curious :)
Law and Order (original) got my vote. I don't always start watching from the beginning, but like people driving by an accident, I usually get caught up in it part way through the story.
Zayphod
10-03-07, 02:07 PM
I say OJ or Brittney Spears.:rotfl:
Well, technically, Brittney Spears would be better classified as a train wreck. :lol:
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