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18 votes
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Environmental activist, Greta Thunberg is to appear as one of the Christmas guest editors of Radio 4's Today programme
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Peter Kay's Car Share
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but...
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but BBC calls it "Peter Kay's Car Share". It's British, so weirdly small number of episodes: only 12 (and this includes all the specials).
The setup sounds like it's going to be unbearably claustrophobic, a series long bottle episode. A supermarket sets up a car sharing scheme, and we watch John and Kayleigh share a car as they drive to work everyday. But this creates intimacy and we get to learn about the characters. It's heartfelt and lovely. It's well acted, and I think it's very funny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635922/
4 votes -
Kenya Airways stowaway: Mystery of the man who fell from the sky
5 votes -
Former UK consulate worker says he was tortured in China
12 votes -
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?
6 votes -
Prosecutors in Sweden have dropped an investigation into a rape allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010
8 votes -
Detectorists - "unremarkable lives gone slightly awry"
I'm currently re-watching all episodes of Detectorists and it's one of my favourite tv things ever, so I thought maybe Tildes would be interested. Detectorists is a single camera sitcom about two...
I'm currently re-watching all episodes of Detectorists and it's one of my favourite tv things ever, so I thought maybe Tildes would be interested. Detectorists is a single camera sitcom about two men and their friendship around their metal detecting hobby.
Here's the link to the BBC Four webpage for it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06l51nr
Some review sites -
Rotten Tomatoes 100% (few reviews), 99% audience score: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/detectorists
IMDB 8.6 : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4082744/
Guardian review (because she writes about it far better than I can): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/dec/09/detectorists-rich-portrait-unremarkable-lives-gone-slightly-awry-mackenzie-crook
Detectorists is about nothing and everything. Made with palpable love, it’s about people and their passions; camaraderie and community. As a portrait of male friendship, it is closer to documentary than drama, delving beneath the topsoil of mid-life ennui via the sparsest of exchanges. You won’t find a laughter track, or smart-arse punchlines or an oh-so-subtle veil of irony here; instead of begging for your attention, Detectorists is notable for its avoidance of snark. It’s the drama least likely to culminate in alpha plonkers blowing up cars, taking down baddies or ravishing beautiful women.
Instead, it lingers lovingly over dewdrops on grass, magpies on gateposts, scudding clouds and gently fluttering leaves. Even an alfresco wee takes on a painterly aspect, viewed solely through the steam cloud billowing from behind a sunlit tree. Meanwhile, the camera makes high art out of Lance’s face in closeup, crestfallen as he unearths a scaffolding bracket instead of an Anglo-Saxon nugget, and from Andy’s silent incredulity when a colleague jokes about Richard Attenborough when he means David.
Radio Times review https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-12-13/detectorists-series-3-review/
If all British programmes took this much care over their tone, look and overall distinctiveness, the golden age of television would never go away.
Modern comedies are often predicated on cruelty: laughs are hard, clanging or sharp as barbed wire. In its quiet, undemonstrative way, Detectorists has ploughed its own furrow. Buried in its field of fun are evergreen truths about life, and the things we don’t say but should. So if kindness and companionship are unfashionable, I know which side of the hedge I’d rather stand.
13 votes -
Protests erupt over Iran petrol rationing: Demonstrators take to the streets in many cities as petrol prices go up by at least 50%
6 votes -
The rise of 'facadism' in London
13 votes -
Mexico ambush: How a US Mormon family ended up dead
8 votes -
Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining
8 votes -
Bolivian opposition senator Jeanine Áñez has declared herself interim president of the country
4 votes -
Thousands of egg-shaped balls of ice have covered a beach in Finland – the result of a rare weather phenomenon
6 votes -
Blade Runner: How well did the film predict 2019's tech?
11 votes -
Death Stranding: Inside Kojima Productions
5 votes -
Icelander livestreams ten-year-old McDonald's cheeseburger – Hjörtur Smárason bought his McDonald's meal in 2009 to see how long it would take to decompose
13 votes -
In-form Sierra Leone striker Mohamed Buya Turay scored a second half equaliser to help Djurgårdens IF win the 2019 Swedish league
4 votes -
Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
14 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
4 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
13 votes -
De-branding my body. The former sex slaves transforming their tattoos.
12 votes -
A newly-discovered species of beetle, Nelloptodes gretae, has been named after young climate activist Greta Thunberg
5 votes -
Danish Rubjerg lighthouse moved inland on skates – coastal erosion from North Sea winds threatened to topple it into the sea
9 votes -
From failures in Europe to Finland great, the fall and rise of the Norwich striker Teemu Pukki
5 votes -
Eliud Kipchoge breaks two-hour marathon mark by twenty seconds
7 votes -
A patient admitted to hospital in Sweden with a possible case of the Ebola virus has tested negative
3 votes -
Ringed on all sides by the UK but not actually part of it, residents of the Isle of Man value their independence
9 votes -
A statue of former Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been built in his hometown in Sweden
4 votes -
How a horrible goose topped the gaming chart
11 votes -
China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits
7 votes -
Amager Bakke, the incinerator and the ski slope tackling waste
3 votes -
The War of the Worlds | Trailer
12 votes -
Flight shame could halve growth in air traffic – Swedish concept of 'flygskam' appears to be spreading
8 votes -
A woman has been killed and ten other people wounded in a sword attack at a vocational school in the Finnish city of Kuopio
8 votes -
Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
18 votes -
Juul boss Kevin Burns steps down amid vaping concerns
7 votes -
'Ban kids from loot box gambling in games,' MPs say
11 votes -
Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks
10 votes -
Using "time outs" to discipline children is not going to harm them or your relationship with them, US research suggests
6 votes -
How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
13 votes -
Former Arsenal forward Nicklas Bendtner has joined Danish champions FC Copenhagen until the end of December
4 votes -
What's it like to have conversion therapy?
9 votes -
Hurricane Dorian: Storm inches north west, leaving devastation in Bahamas
5 votes -
Norway Sámi community fights for survival as temperatures rise
6 votes -
Good Hair Day – How black Finns are taking on racism
5 votes -
Denmark honours Bernhard Arp Sindberg who rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937
6 votes -
Celtic thumped AIK to reach the Europa League group stage and alleviate some of the pain of their Champions League exit
4 votes -
Northern Ireland's ex-Rangers striker Kyle Lafferty joins Sarpsborg 08 in Norway
3 votes -
Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal
10 votes