What Are You Watching? 2025

My NYD schedule shall be:

Gladiators Celeb special
SEB NYE gig catch up
Gavin and Stacey finale re-watch (I may or may not have been a bit TIPSY during the first run)
The Split Barcelona Episode 2 catch Up
The Traitors EP 1

Splendid! :disco:
 
I'm going to watch telly as it airs like a fucking pensioner from 6pm, as BBC have got the schedule bang on for me:

Gladiators
Gavin & Stacey cash-in doc
The Traitors s3e1 omg omg
SAS Rogue Heroes (s1 was surprisingly good and QUITE HOMOEROTIC iirc)
Might even leave it on for EE at 10pm, as I missed it over Christmas and I normally do DABBLE FESTIVELY

And then there's a repeat of C4's Big Fat Quiz of the year on from 10:30pm, which I do like on the few years they get the mix of panellists right.
 
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I'm going to watch telly as it airs like a fucking pensioner from 6pm, as BBC have got the schedule bang on for me:

Gladiators
Gavin & Stacey cash-in doc
The Traitors s3e1 omg omg
SAS Rogue Heroes (s1 was surprisingly good and QUITE HOMOEROTIC iirc)
Might even leave it on for EE at 10pm, as I missed it over Christmas and I normally do DABBLE FESTIVELY

And then there's a repeat of C4's Big Fat Quiz of the year on from 10:30pm, which I do like on the few years they get the mix of panellists right.

The BBC are KILLING IT tonight. :disco:
 
I bought Beetlejuice Beetlejuice so might watch that today
 
My NYD schedule shall be:

Gladiators Celeb special
SEB NYE gig catch up
Gavin and Stacey finale re-watch (I may or may not have been a bit TIPSY during the first run)
The Split Barcelona Episode 2 catch Up
The Traitors EP 1

Splendid! :disco:

Had no idea Gladiators was on tonight. I'll have to watch later. Can't wait for the visual feast and rewinding pausing :disco:
 
I watched the first episode of SAS Rogue Heroes earlier as it was all on the iPlayer, then the last three episodes of Squid Game S2 (feels like they are dragging one season unnecessarily out to another one).

Now dipping my toe into Gladiators for the celeb special before watching The Traitors.
 
Do I need to have seen Season 1 of SAS Rogue Heroes?

It is a new mission and I couldn't remember exactly what happened at the end of the first run, but I think it would help to have an idea of who the lead characters are.
 
Also why would you NOT watch the first series, when it's just as easy to watch it and only six episodes long?

Are you rushing to be up to date in order to keep up with the lads at the pub, Percy love?
 
I watched the last two Veras last night, plus the Farewell documentary :(

I will miss it, but I don't feel like it ended on a particular high.
 
I watched the last two Veras last night, plus the Farewell documentary :(

I will miss it, but I don't feel like it ended on a particular high.

I still haven’t watched a single episode. I may need to revisit at some point. Should I start from the first episode?
 
I still haven’t watched a single episode. I may need to revisit at some point. Should I start from the first episode?
I didn't get into it until well into the run - after Cush Jumbo left, but I don't think straight after, so I'm guessing series 8. I've watched some of the older ones since on ITV3 (I think).

So I don't think you need to start at the beginning, but if you're going to pick it up now it's over, I guess you may as well.
 
I didn't get into it until well into the run - after Cush Jumbo left, but I don't think straight after, so I'm guessing series 8. I've watched some of the older ones since on ITV3 (I think).

So I don't think you need to start at the beginning, but if you're going to pick it up now it's over, I guess you may as well.

Can you compare it to any other programme? I was never a fan of Poirot or Miss Marple which is probably why I never tried it. I did love Murder She Wrote but I can’t imagine it will be quite as camp 🤔
 
Can you compare it to any other programme? I was never a fan of Poirot or Miss Marple which is probably why I never tried it. I did love Murder She Wrote but I can’t imagine it will be quite as camp 🤔
I'm not really sure I can, but I will say that I think I had a bit of a preconceived idea of it being warm and cuddly in a Sunday night, little old lady kind of way. And it isn't. Don't get me wrong, it's not exactly GRITTY either, but Marple or Murder She Wrote it isn't.
 
I think it first aired last year, but I watched The Life and Death of Lily Savage (ITV) last night - all about the Lily Savage years of Paul O'Grady, with interviews from his friends and daughter - and it was absolutely delightful. Lily really was magnificent.
 
Has anyone given the James Norton drama Playing Nice on ITV a go yet? Was thinking of giving it a go later, but I see that the Guardian absolutely savaged it. But I've seen quite a few people in turn savage that review.
 
Has anyone given the James Norton drama Playing Nice on ITV a go yet? Was thinking of giving it a go later, but I see that the Guardian absolutely savaged it. But I've seen quite a few people in turn savage that review.

I watched the first episode yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
That review is really going to town but I watched the first episode and I didn't like it very much.

Both James Norton and Niamh Algar deserved better. His character especially behaves in an annoyingly gullible way. I agree that the antagonist was so obviously villainous from the get go (there is one especially hilarious shot of him sinisterly watching footage from a child monitor).
 
That review is really going to town but I watched the first episode and I didn't like it very much.

Both James Norton and Niamh Algar deserved better. His character especially behaves in an annoyingly gullible way. I agree that the antagonist was so obviously villainous from the get go (there is one especially hilarious shot of him sinisterly watching footage from a child monitor).

If you carry on watching it may or may not be part of the end game. I thought both leads were brilliant and played the parts well, but the story is from a book so surely the characterisation is based on that?
 
It just all seemed to escalate very quickly and I wasn't gripped... I don't know, maybe that style of psychological thriller just isn't my favourite. I haven't deleted the second episode from the box yet but not feeling the urge to watch it at the moment.
 
Has anyone given the James Norton drama Playing Nice on ITV a go yet? Was thinking of giving it a go later, but I see that the Guardian absolutely savaged it. But I've seen quite a few people in turn savage that review.
My Mum and Dad have watched it and felt that the Guardian review was, if anything, too nice.
 
I thought I'd already watched the second series of The Dry on ITV but happily I hadn't.
 
The 7/7 London Bombings doc on iPlayer is brilliantly done, and taught me a lot about a moment in history I thought I knew all about.

Episode two has absolutely fucked me up, with its interviews with the forensics team who cleared up the tunnels after the blasts, but I still recommend it.
 
I've watched Inside The Factory for a while, but recently Paddy McGuinness joined (in place of Gregg :eyes:) and it's improved a bit.
I didn't know Paddy was a cleaner in a Warburtons factory before becoming a TV presenter. 🪄
The episode aired today was making the crisp/cheese curls Quavers 🤩💛
 
I don't usually watch Ben Fogle: New Lives in The Wild, but did today (randomly switched over because the M&S proframme on ITV was a bit boring. 😅)

The episode aired today was quite interesting (not Ben Fogle, somehow he was in a GCSE English question I got :D)
but the guy he was talking to, Jimmy and his husband's story, quite moving. 😌

Description pinched from some YouTube upload (doesn't show the episode though)

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild "New South Wales" (January 14, 2025)

Ben heads into the forests of northern New South Wales to meet Jimmy, an American photographer living alone. Jimmy shares his story of coming out to family and friends, and how meeting his late husband Richard inspired them to start a new life together in the wild. Ben learns that Jimmy has faced multiple tragedies since leaving urban America for rural Australia. Bereavement and unprecedented natural disasters have taken a significant toll on him, prompting Ben to wonder why Jimmy has chosen to remain in the wild alone.

www.channel5.com/ben-fogle-new-lives-in-the-wild/season-19/new-south-wales
 

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