Swagger Inn. The Morning after the Night Before. BBC Musketeers (Thread 75)

[MiladyBeaWinter]

All welcome. Every Friday at 9pm but let's face it well be here all year week. Here's a little something to wet your appetite.

It was 9pm last time, but they thought it would be 8pm, that's why they've hotted it up (is that a phrase?) this time around.

We asked Tom about the change to Friday and he was dismissive of it, saying "Does it matter, there's iPlayer". Maybe he was just defending his employer, which was noble of him, but yes, I think it does matter, particularly when it's up against a well-established show.

Fancy I think you need to download. I've got 4 devices to put it on, and they're going to be on continually!

Really, though, 5,000 people being representative of a country with a population of over 60 million. It's crazy.

Off to do a re-watch to calm me down.

Evening all. But piddled as FIL and his partner have taken the DC off our hands for the night. Went to local pub for tea and may have accidentally drunk 3 pints of Fosters

DH now knows he's on to a winner Fo Sho! I have (obviously) kept ep 1 on sky planner but no idea when I can rewatch. Dare I suggest it as foreplay?

Hell yes Flops!

it worked for Lyndie

Go for it Flopsy!

Sparkle - I think I've retweeted the right thing.

Right, download it is (I didn't do that earlier when I was conducting important research on the well scene ), thanks apricot. If it doesn't matter how many downloads are made to the same IP address I might just dig out every defunct device I can find in this house. DD will download it on her computer too with little persuasion needed.

I agree, 5,000 households seems such a tiny percentage.

flopsy, I'm pretty sure that episode would work well as foreplay, go for it

Hmm Apes, maybe he was defending the Beeb, but according to that painful Sunday Brunch Interview he only ever watches telly on iplayer, and does't have a working telly.

Maybe a lot of people don't watch programmes in their original time slot, but they have to know the programme exists in the first place and a lot of that has to do with when it airs. There are certain nights in the week when, for various reasons I pay more attention to what's on the telly. But the fact that it has hardly been advertised must have hurt the viewing figures.

I can't belieeeeeeve the poor job they've done of promoting the show, especially considering how much money must have been ploughed into making it. I do hope this won't have a negative effect on the decision to go for S3.

The pre-reviews IYSWIM it got were all good. The write up in the Radio Times for the first two episodes was excellent. But yy to what everywench has said, the BBC just don't seem to have really pushed it out there.

Foreplay? Ha ha flops.

Wanders in...

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Amusingly DH seems to feel a little bit threatened and becomes all masterful any time MW is on the Telly, so it's a bit of a win win situation

Although as it was (counts on fingers, shakes head, that can't be right surely?) twenty five years ago, I'm not sure what there is to feel threatened about...

I've googled reviews. They are all pretty positive bar one I think ( But it can get all the good reviews in the world, unless their faces are out there either on chat shows or in trailers, the public at large AREN'T GOING TO KNOW IT'S ON

Right here. Right now. In this field.

Sorry, swearing's not big or clever but it made me laugh.

Can you tell I'm having Tumblr Time?

There is A LOT isn't there Sparkle !!

Incidentally, I am liking the moody black cloaks a lot.

'Kin ell fancy how long have you lurked for?! (Knowledge of tavern bar stock)

leaping - at your dh knowing youve boffed mw!

Right - going for a rewatch...

I am squueeeeing at Luca's answer here in their Radio Times interview! CAN YOU IMAGINE?!

^Has playing D’Artagnan made you braver?
It’s funny you should ask that, because we were having dinner in Prague during filming and heard shouting at the other end of the restaurant, and Santiago, Howard, Tom and I all jumped up! These big dudes were fighting in the corner. That instinct to get involved is definitely there now. Did we actually get involved? No!^

Mrs Beee: find that restaurant

don't question it leaping, just work it to your advantage

I know sparks, I've seen trailers for other programmes, but have only seen the Musketeers trailer once.

Evening

I actually got the Couchturner thingy working after some time with an enlarged screen also, not to bad quality either, so looks like I don't have to wait until the DVD arrives after all.

Thanks for the suggestions Wenches

Have any of you tried watching shows on Project Free TV? I can't get it to work, it's a bloody nightmare with ads popping up etc.

can't remember madame, I saw some old threads as when I finally watched s1 I went looking for the MN reaction I then lurked on and off before finally diving in

evening, might have just finished up a Rewatch with DH. It doesn't appear to work as foreplay with everyone Flops

Can you remember way back when they first started filming some actor tweeting about being in Ep1 and then a picture of him in costume and one of Prague at sunset? The costume one got taken down very quick (JessP on the ball) but we did big speculation about who he played, was he Duke of Buckingham yada yada etc? Well I found out why no one else at all picked up on him, spotted him in the Rewatch. He had 1 line, 1 bloody line. He announced the Spanish Ambassador in court. Talk about overplaying your hand. They only reason I've not sought him out and twatted him is that his black clothes (followed quickly by the promo shot of Queeny in black flashing her legs) made us guess re Cardinals funeral. But really

Oh God Team Aramis, tissues at the ready

I haven't seen the trailer so no idea how accurate that is...

Oh, got Project Free TV to work also! I'm on fire! A real techno wench. Hmm, I wonder if I can figure out how to record on the DVD-player I had for about 4 years

I can't even get iPlayer to download

Am going to have to ask DH