Stephen Poliakoff , so much on at the mo..

[Anteater]

I really enjoy the pace and view of his work but why is it all comming so quick??

[wrinklytum]

Dunno,but loved Maggie Smith last night

[Anteater]

Yes, she is great!

[Marina]

Lately he's worked on paired television plays screened consecutively, plus one of the "joys" of BBC3 and BBC4 is they do these themed nights which can lead to overload. I think they went a bit bananas on Poliakoff to be honest

[ruty]

i find them terribly ponderous, po faced and a bit pretentious TBH. I suppose they are unashamedly middle class, not necessarily a bad thing when TV is awash with 'working class' right on drama made by oxbridge toffs. Have to admit wanted to see Joe's Palace and the Maggie Smith one but missed them. Saw the one about thatcherism last year and Shooting the Past and a few others.

[Marina]

I thought Friends and Crocodiles was dire ruty - really disappointing. I haven't seen the most recent two either, but I like Ruth Wilson and David Walliams so will watch them when they are repeated shortly on BBC4 I expect.
For me his most touching stuff in recent years has been The Lost Prince. I wept buckets at the end of that. Far more truthful than old weasels like Robert Lindsay and Bill Nighy chewing the scenery

[ruty]

yes caught a bit of Lost Prince and it was rather good. I think he is better at portraying period, upper class stuff.

[TellusMater]

The Lost Prince I loved.

Friends and Crocodiles and Joe's Palace I found dull frankly.

[ruty]

I hated Shooting the Past. Especially Emilia Fox playing a punk with a cockney accent. Cringeworthy.

[Marina]

It had my bete noire Tim Spall in too [ugh] emoticon.
But hey, the man gave us the hilarious and deeply sinister Caught on a Train, one of the best TV dramas ever

[Marina]

Emilia Fox. How I struggled to get an entree into the world of theatre

[ruty]

oh yes the early stuff much better. [is that the one with Peggy Ashcroft?]

[Marina]

And Michael Kitchen doing his sexy meditative eye-rolling, that's the one

[ruty]

Ah well. She's ended up in Witless Silence so there's revenge for us all.

[ruty]

oh yes remember. it was a bit creepy.

[Marina]

Personally I think Randall and Hopkirk Deceased with Vic and Bob was also karma

[Bundle]

I really do wish he'd Polliak-off.
v disappointing

[ruty]

[Bundle]

ooooh witless silence, now we're talking So Bad it's Almost Good tv...

[Marina]

Dh rustled his Daily Telegraph crossly and said "It's all a bit Emperor's New Clothes, tsk" and then we watched repeats of I'm Alan Partridge on Dave. Now, that's TV writing genius

[Bundle]

partridge and father ted never fail, tbh

[Marina]

We have two HR tiny child interns at the moment who are just like Sally Phillips and James Lance in I'm Alan Partridge

[ruty]

the only thing i watch nowadays is Never Mind the Buzzocks.
I think there is a new series coming...

[Marina]

Well they had a corker on last night with Ricky from the Kaiser Chiefs and a small boy with greasy hair who cracked me up. It was excellent

[MyEye]

I've definitely ODd on SP -- didn't even bother to tape these two (I knew I couldn't persuade DH to sit through them). I think I've seen all the Poliakoffs I need to.

However, the images do stay with you, I find. F&C cack, but visually/atmos-wise I can remember a lot about it, which means it worked on some level

[ruty]

Bums. Missed it.