Bluestone 42 is back. I rather like this little show about a group of bomb disposal folks out in the sandpit.

WPC, is back for another series. Have a few episodes lined up, but not gotten around to watching it yet. Anyone else into this show?

We're still a couple episodes behind, but so far, we're both really liking this.

It's quite serious, but with a slightly amusing tone to some of the characters and situations.

Brewing up to be quite a series with potential in-fighting but not a whole lot of back story into how all the characters ended up where they did.

I'm enjoying Banished - hadn't really noticed the lack of back stories, but I think you are right.

It's a bit formulaic, but still enjoyable



Another show I am quite enjoying is 'Ordinary Lies' -

BBC One - Ordinary Lies

An ensemble piece focussing on one character's story each week - which involves some kind of disastrous lie and it all goes horribly wrong...

Pretty far fetched story lines, but kind of fun to watch things unravel.

Has anyone caught the new Thunderbirds? Couple episodes in and have it lined up but not bothered with it yet

I have - it's bad, IMHO.

As the saying goes, 'Nostalgia ain't what it used to be'.

That's what I feared....it looked far to polished and to have lost the charm.

I'll still give it a go at some point though.

Models and set pieces are ok. The CGI is awful and a huge step down from the original puppetry.

The character changes (crappy graphics aside) are unnecessary and annoying, as is their apparent membership of some new boy-band.

/60's Thunderbirds fan.

I started watching it but started feeling that I was betraying the real Thunderbirds so I stopped. Can't people come up with their own ideas instead of messing up someone else's?

Any one watching Griff Rhys Jones Slow train across Africa? Nice Sunday tea time viewing ..ITV version of Palin?

haven't read all the posts here, so hope i am not repeating something. I use Unotelly. Best thing ever, and very affordable. BBC iplayer and many other channels. For ITV you simply put in a post code, not sure why its that simple, but it works, although having said that, perhaps its because i use Unotelly. Free trial as well, without having to put in credit card details.

Safe house on ITV with Christopher Ecclestone looks promising.

I liked the new Thuderbirds, you cant get away with strings these days, and most of the original elements are all still in the new version. Tracy Island and its mechanics are all there. I like that I can sit with my daughter and get her to proselytize it to her friends to download.

Has anyone caught the return of W1A?

Didn't that have a bit of a change up because of the whole Top Gear thing being a bit to close to one of the storylines?

Yes, I caught that - they had a couple of the actors from the show on breakfast tv the other day and they were saying that the Jeremy Clarkson references in the show had been written long before the Top Gear stuff. They did say that there had been a couple of tweaks to accommodate.

I remember when they first showed the Twenty Twelve show and they had an episode about a ridiculous, non working countdown clock. Soon after the episode was broadcast, the real olympic countdown clock had some problems. I think the writers are just really good at catching the Zeitgeist on these things