belgravia

[scullion]

first episode tonight - was good but then it has tamsin gregg and harriet walters so not surprising.
tamsin's ball gown was beautiful.

[earthmaiden]

I watched it. I usually hate period dramas but it is set in an area where ancestors of mine were living at that time (in more lowly dwellings) and I wanted to get a feel of what it might have been like out and about. No idea who Tamsin Gregg and Harriet Walters are (am useless at knowing things like that) but it was quite good. It had good reviews.

I'll have to look again to see the ballgown.

[scullion]

they played the two bereaved mothers.
tamsin gregg = debbie aldrich in the archers- also in green wing, black books, episodes etc.

[PatsyMFagan]

It was my intention to watch this last night and I saw most of it ... however, as is usual for me lately, after 9 pm I watch in bed and seem to fall asleep in the middle of stuff these days So catch-up it is for me today

[Pepper Pig]

Like Patsy it was on past my bedtime but I have it recorded to watch later. The Guardian review made me laugh out loud.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... ptown-funk

[aero280]

I didn't see the show, but I read the review!

I doubt that I'll watch it, it's not really my thing. I haven't seen any of Downton Abbey either, or their predecessors Upstairs Downstairs and the Forsyte Saga.

[earthmaiden]

Love the review PP!

Realise which the ballgown was now. Yes, lovely.

I used to quite like Upstairs, Downstairs. I have often wished they'd show the Forsyte Saga again. We lived with my grandmother for part of it and she liked to watch it. We got quite into it. I believe it was shot in black & white and so felt it couldn't be shown again as people started switching to colour soon afterwards. I didn't watch Downton Abbey but saw the recent film which was pretty much what I had expected.

[miss mouse]

[aero280]

Was episode one a remake of Vanity Fair?

[scullion]

only in the fact that the fictional characters in both novels attended the same, real, ball.

i think the reviewer tried hard to be witty - maybe i'm not bright enough to appreciate her style of humour.

[PatsyMFagan]

[miss mouse]

I don't think I have completed epi 1 yet, I was shouted at for FFing (as in fast forward) through the adverts. Oh well it will show up on TouTube sooner or later.

[WWordsworth]

Oh blimey miss mouse.
Do people actually watch the adverts?

[miss mouse]

Well I don't but ITV catchup shouts at viewers who FF through them then offer a subscription service which gets my goat. Meanwhile I have been YouTubing 'Rosemary and Thyme, utter tosh of course but fun to watch.

[WWordsworth]

Ah, I usually mute the bits I can't be bothered with.
Like on Tipping Point.
Ben Shepherd seems a nice enough chap but he talks too much and too fast.
I often mute him.