last tango in halifax

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anyone else looking forward to the 3rd series? has been a great run up to Christmas for the past couple of years!

Oh great idea SnookyPooky, never thought of that, thanks

Ah maybe I am confused and it ENDED just at Xmas...so it must start soonish, no?

just found a LTIH facebook page and 'liked' it - hopefully will now get info as and when it is released

Yes it ended on Xmas eve last year. I'll see if I can find out a start date

It's starting on the Sunday 28th December at 9.00 pm, really looking forward to it......catch you all then

28th December 9pm

oh ^^ too excited to read!!!

I'm unsure if its my phone or not but no thread showing am I really only one watching

I liked it but ( spoiler alert here..)..

how can they keep coming up with secrets for? Alan having an affair years ago didnt ring true. My Dh made me angry by saying Gillian was a tart! Ok, she knows the bloke she is sleeping with has a girlfriend etc etc , but it takes two to tango and he didnt call HIM a tart! I pulled him up on it, but goes to show attitudes havent changed that much.. I like Gillian, she is less stuck up than Caroline, who is a dreadful hypocrite. I like this drama though. At least they speak as people do in real life. Glad its back.

I love it personally its one of my favourite programmes and hope Robbie gets rid of Cheryl it seemed at the wedding he wasn't into her that much, five episodes seems too short !

They certainly opened up a whole heap of new issues to start this series. The long lost son is only the most obvious.

I'm a bit worried about the schoolboy's parents - hope it won't be a complication too far.

And the poor canal-boat friend ... And the ex-husband's girlfriend ...

So glad to see it back though.

I walked across the set of them filming this - they were using a local hospital. I was just attending my appointment and ended up right in the way!

It's all gone too soapy!

yes I must admit I was thinking how very far fetched it is - not very likely to have so many incredible events happening to one set of people. But they are all such great characters and beautifully played. so I shall continue watching

I just watched it now, I liked it, not sure about the wedding, wonder will it all go smoothly, and I do feel for Carolines son, surely he should be allowed to change schools, he must feel awful and get an awful time from all the students, not sure I love the long lost son story but we'll see how it goes, I'll be watching it all anyway

It is cleverly done, isn't it?

I mean you can't help rooting for alan & celia.

Then they do something like this so that you feel less sorry for Alan, then Celia spouts off about Caroline & Kate & you lose a bit of sympathy for her.

I don't really like caroline & kate. They just seem to be ploughing ahead & thinking of no one else.

Felt really sorry for Gillian when she realised that it wasn't a date!

Although Robbie has a girlfriend so she's not perfect!

And she murdered her husband. Or did she "only" leave him to die??!!

So I should imagine that they'll be agonising over whether or not to tell Celia & she'll find out somehow & be mad with everyone for not telling her!

Given that Alan only settled for his first wife after losing Celia, I think his having an affair is realistic.

I cannot stand Celia. She is a nasty passive-aggressive snob. A total narcissist - whatever happens it is always about how it affects her.

Shame, because I really like the actress who plays her

I think it's a series too far. I will still watch it because I loved the first 2 series, but it's definitely gettingba bit hackneyed and far fetched.

That's the whole problem with the "love story".

They both married, so did they both marry for the sake of it & not love their new spouses??

I don't like Celia that much or Caroline.

Caroline with all her "but I have to tell mum as she be gutted if she knew I knew & didn't tell her"

how about keep your bloody self righteous trap shut!

of course it's not "realistic" that Gillian would have told Caroline.

I think it's telling that I really couldn't care less about Alan's long lost son, even though I can believe he would have an affair.
And I don't like Celia either, I'm starting to think that a nice man like Alan wouldn't go near the bigoted, self absorbed old cow with a bargepole.

"starting to think that a nice man like Alan wouldn't go near the bigoted, self absorbed old cow with a bargepole."

You can't help thinking that if they had married it wouldn't have worked!

Not if she was to live & work on the farm anyway!

It seems that she had a certain standard of living with her husband that she put up with despite affairs!

I'm glad it's back, and agree with lots of comments about how narrow-minded and self-centred Celia is, but then we get a scene with her and Alan together and they just so obviously make each other happy that I relent a bit!

I do find it odd that the fine the friend has to pay for being drunk in charge of a houseboat (? - memory somewhat hazy on the circs) is so huge as to force him to sell his house. Did they actually mention how much it was?

I think he has to pay for the damage to the lock.

I am hoping the new brother will be good for Gillian. Someone who will love her without sleeping with her (I sincerely hope!).

I love Gillian. She looks after people, she's not judgmental and she feels things deeply. But she has zero self-confidence.

I still don't think the Caroline / Kate relationship rings true, Caroline is too self absorbed and bossy.

I was a bit puzzled about canal boat man too, is he related to the mother of Gillian's grandson? DH and DMIL kept talking over it when I was watching.