Ep1 was last week, but it is all on iPlayer, very well done
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Just watched the first episode of The Penguin. Had no idea that the lead is Colin Farrell!
I thought it was good too. There’s quite a bit of the presenter telling us the story, or even just smiling over background music, while wandering over/through some exotic landscape as the drone cam zooms out for effect. But at least sometimes these are landscapes where the subjects (early homo) might once have walked. Unlike with Brian Cox where it seems he can’t explain how mass curves spacetime unless he’s walking up a Hawaiian volcano or being dripped on in an ice cave in a melting glacier.
I think we read the same papers so you’ll have seen Ella Al-Shamahi’s back story - she was brought up as a devout Muslim and spent some time, entirely voluntarily, as a child ‘missionary’. But her education - school, undergrad, postgrad - convinced her that her religious world view was simply wrong. So she changed her mind.
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Education is a wonderful thing!
I hadn’t seen that article, thanks for the link
Currently enjoying Your Friends & Neighbours which is about a hedgefund manager who loses his job & then starts to steal expensive items from his circle of associates. There are hints of American Psycho about the way it regards what the yuppies of that story might become 10-20 years later. (no mass slaughter though, at least not so far!)
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Agree with the review headlines - the scenery looks fabulous, Eric Bana’s character is a bit 2D and a blunt instrument, and as such begins to grate. Perfectly watchable though.
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I quite enjoyed it, like you say, easy watching despite the flaws.
Which is more than can be said for Mixtape which we watched 30 mins of before the chasmic flaws annoyed us so much we had to switch off.
Half way through,on a holiday tv, in a cottage in one of the most isolated villages in Staffordshire.
I’m not that scared I’m checking the locks.
I have found it watchable but exceptionally one dimensional, with a number two who just isn’t up to the task of stopping Eric becoming the only thing to see. The real talent is on the side lines.
The side plots, if you can identity them, are back of fag packet. I hope it picks up quick. Too much riding a horse and picking stuff up.
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Thought I would give this a look after seeing so many positive reviews from many like me not Robbie Williams fans. It’s an interesting concept to make the main character a CGI monkey but it doesn’t take long to accept that that character is Robbie Williams. It has a lot of well choreographed scenes and takes some inspiration from LA Story I thought.
An easy film to dismiss until you have actually seen it but surprisingly I quite enjoyed it and it’s pretty funny on parts too.
I still think he is a self obsessed twat though. That’s probably why Liam Gallagher’s character seems to blend in seamlessly.
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This prom on BBC4
Vivaldi and Bach (BBC4 25th Jul).
That’s entertainment !
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Was thinking of some of our Scottish members who like their bikes (@spacehopper )
This guy is something else!
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Cheers Kev I’ll check it out.
Watched from start to finish and thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done young lad.
I’ve hiked my bike up a couple Munros and for the vast majority you cannot ride down never mind up.
The first weekend when we moved into our village there is a Marilyn called Cairn Table (1945ft) just short of a Munro. Anyhoo I made a point of doing this as soon as we moved in. I then went to the pub that evening to see what the locals were all about and one of the old boys said to the barman “You’ll never guess what I saw today! some fucking eejit hareing down Cairn Table on a bike”. I held my hand up and the old boy is still my pal and I still have the Cannondale V700 nearly thirty years later.
X.
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Love the fact that a Marilyn is not quite a Munro!
Never heard that before 
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Scottish hill terms are not confusing at all…
Munro 3000ft
Corbett 2500ft
Graham 200ft
Donald 2000ft, In the borders
Marilyn peak with over 150m prominence, I’ve no idea why this one is metric
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For a moment I thought the Scots had cracked it.
Unfortunately Donald Corbett doesn’t sound half as much fun as Marilyn Munro 
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