Quality Programing, PBS, and Jeremy Brett

I find it sad that I am a late 20's male and have this issue. Surely I'm not the only one.

I will say I am reading Nicholas Nickleby and excited to watch the 2002 Hollywood film and the 2001 miniseries when I am done.

I feel pretentious evening writing something like this. That's not who I am

It’s not just Firing Line, OP. It’s “Firing Line With Margaret Hoover”… the pretty blonde.nepo baby

R3 lol yes, I like her though. She interviewed Doris Kearns Goodwin last night,

Best money spent = PBS Passport

$60/ YEAR

R5 does your PBS station hound you until after you die if you sign up for Passport?

I'd like to, but every time I've donated to public radio or PBS stations they start calling me a few months after I start for more money begging and then it will never be enough. Can't you make 60 into 100 a year? 200? 500? I'd happily do it otherwise.

Maryland is horrible. So incredibly stupid. Who wrote that shit? And I’d like to ask Stockyard Channing “Does your face hurt?, because it’s killing me.”

What?

Nolly

R6 Nope.

There's a Doctor Quinn marathon on tomorrow on start TV that sounds right up your alley.

Everything was better in MY day!

R1, see if you can find the 1982 film of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s NINE HOUR play of Nicholas Nickleby. No, really, it’s worth it. It played on Broadway over two nights and was shown in multiple episodes on the BBC and then PBS.

R13 I have heard good things about it! I know it has Roger Rees and John Wood, two very good actors

R11 Why do you say that?

I strongly second the rec for the 1982 Nicholas Nickleby. It’s the best adaptation I’ve ever seen of any Dickens work and I’ve seen dozens. I liked it so much I tracked it down to give to my mother for Mother’s Day last year.

Ooh, R16 here again. I should also say that the BBC adaptation of Tom Jones is phenomenal.

R17 I enjoy most BBC literary adaptations!

Thank you for the recommendations

Any more recommendations?

Will smell you Princess Grace

R21 what?

I liked it, R7 -- but I only watched it because of Eve Best. I loved her on Nurse Jackie and I wanted to see her in something else.

But the plot kind of reminded me of Philomena -- except backwards.

I’m watching a 90s adaptation of Great Expectations with Charlotte Rampling as Miss Havisham and Ioan Gruffudd as adult Pip. I read the book so long ago, I only remember the basic outlines but here nearly every character except Joe is mean and cruel and adult Pip is thoughtless and profligate. I didn’t even recognize Lesley Sharpe as the sister. Not sure I’ll watch the second half.

Jennifer Ehle, who starred as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1990s BBC tv series Pride and Prejudice (with Colin Firth as Mr Darcy) is now appearing on Law and Order Organized Crime as a police chief. The story seems to be riffing off LISK, as a a million other crime shows have been doing. Keith Carradine plays creepy her father. Ehle looks very good at 54. Not a line or a crease on her face,

[quote]Not a line or a crease on her face,

Her mom aged nicely.

There have been a lot of fascinating productions in the NATURE series.

One that comes to mind is the six episodes of EARTHFLIGHT, highlighting birds on each of the continents.

I am listening to the second set iof starling babies being raised in my soffit. When weather turned warm I opened window so cats could sit at the screen and sniff/watch backyard birds. I woke up with a hundred bug bites after I left the window open one night. Bird mites left the nest and traveled straight through screen holes into my bedroom and attacked me in my sleep. Bird mite bites ITCH like crazy and at first it looked like scabies had I invaded. But bird mites don’t live on humans. They just bite humans and die of starvation if they don’t get back to sucking on birds.

I just watched the movie coda to Spooks, with Jon Snow (forget his real name) as the agent running around town. Jennifer Ehle was the deputy director and even knowing it was her, I couldn’t see the resemblance. I think it’s because she’d lightened her hair and her eyebrows so much. Had no idea she is American.