TV Show recommendations

[nifan]

Watched the pilot episode of a new show "the americans"
pretty good start, centers around a couple of kgb sleeper agents in the us at the beginning of the reagan years.

[Billys Boots]

Engrenages (Spirals) series four starts on Saturday night on BBC4 - have been waiting ages for this!

[Main Street]

Watched the pilot episode of a new show "the americans"
pretty good start, centers around a couple of kgb sleeper agents in the us at the beginning of the reagan years.

If you're interested in that sort of thing
There's an excellent French film,  Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) (2009) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/farewell_2010/ about a French engineer who was used as a go-between by a Soviet colonel to leak documents to the West, amongst which was a list of the entire Soviet spy network in the USA.
The French, Mitterrand, (regarded as commie by the Pentagon) then passed that info onto Reagan.
The basic facts of the story do hold water but of course it isn't wholly based on fact
As good as, or even better than Le Carre at his best.

[Main Street]

Engrenages (Spirals) series four starts on Saturday night on BBC4 - have been waiting ages for this!

That's great news  and there's more good news, 12 episodes @ 55 minutes each episode, BBC4 will have 2 episodes back to back for 6 weeks.
It's going to be a long week in between.

[Minder]

Engrenages (Spirals) series four starts on Saturday night on BBC4 - have been waiting ages for this!

That's great news  and there's more good news, 12 episodes @ 55 minutes each episode, BBC4 will have 2 episodes back to back for 6 weeks.
It's going to be a long week in between.

Have they shown the previous three series on BBC ?

[Hound]

New series of Spartacus starts on Monday night on Sky. Loved the first two series

[laoislad]

New series of Spartacus starts on Monday night on Sky. Loved the first two series

Does the Mrs know you are watching soft porn?

[Hound]

I'd have to close my eyes alright for some of the graphic bits 

[Billys Boots]

Engrenages (Spirals) series four starts on Saturday night on BBC4 - have been waiting ages for this!

That's great news  and there's more good news, 12 episodes @ 55 minutes each episode, BBC4 will have 2 episodes back to back for 6 weeks.
It's going to be a long week in between.

Have they shown the previous three series on BBC ?

They have, but I think it goes back as far as 2006 or 2007. 

[Main Street]

Engrenages (Spirals) series four starts on Saturday night on BBC4 - have been waiting ages for this!

That's great news  and there's more good news, 12 episodes @ 55 minutes each episode, BBC4 will have 2 episodes back to back for 6 weeks.
It's going to be a long week in between.

Have they shown the previous three series on BBC ?

Yes they have and  those 3 series that were shown on BBC are available as hdtv rips on torrent sites, etc.
You don't need to have watched the earlier series in order to follow what's happening in the 4th.
Some plots do follow on, but each series is entirely valid on its own.

[Billys Boots]

Engrenages (Spirals) series four starts on Saturday night on BBC4 - have been waiting ages for this!

That's great news  and there's more good news, 12 episodes @ 55 minutes each episode, BBC4 will have 2 episodes back to back for 6 weeks.
It's going to be a long week in between.

Have they shown the previous three series on BBC ?

Yes they have and  those 3 series that were shown on BBC are available as hdtv rips on torrent sites, etc.
You don't need to have watched the earlier series in order to follow what's happening in the 4th.
Some plots do follow on, but each series is entirely valid on its own.

Sure, but the characters are an important part of it (for me anyway) and I think it would lose something if you didn't have the history in your head. 

[Main Street]

Perhaps, but would you lose more or less than a Longford GAA man who had no notion of his county's history?

[Billys Boots]

Emmmmm, ok. 

[nrico2006]

New series of Spartacus starts on Monday night on Sky. Loved the first two series

Has there not been 3 so far?

[screenexile]

Watched the first 4 episodes of Utopia last night. I like it!!