The Night Manager? Anyone?

[GetCarter]

StevieBee said:

Been saving this up on Sky+ and went to start watching last night but Ep 1 has disappeared from the planner, catch up, the internet and the known universe it seems.

Anyone know why?

Available on planner & catch up here. Just watched 1 to 6.

[pitboard]

Nice to see the Whitehall mob being portrayed as a bunch of self interested dullards, which I suspect they are in real life.

[K12beano]

GetCarter said:

vxr8mate said:

Enjoyed it, but I think I missed somethings:

1. Where did he get the drugs to sort out the casino fella?

2. How did he dry his clothes after the pool incident?

3. How did the guards miss those lads in the back of the mini bus?

4. What happened to the kid who's life he saved?

Hope you were all paying attention.

1 Almost anywhere in the Middle East
2 Drip Dry... he's English remember
3 They were foreign Jonnys who don't have a clue how to shine a torch
4 See next season

Absolutely full of holes for the obvious - I agree completely about the wet clothes and the obvious follow up on our drugged friend. But it is a "suspend-your-disbelief" and typical romp through some great stuff. They get cleaned up after punch-ups and how do they get all those 'phones anyway....

Let's cut to the chase.


Wow - loverly....




Absolutely burst into laughter on the floor on the "James Bond Reference".... that was such an audacious move - I almost hope that history will prove to be true.....

Hddy's a cool cucumber anyway - but House is a better baddie!!!!

[Adam B]

GetCarter said:

StevieBee said:

Been saving this up on Sky+ and went to start watching last night but Ep 1 has disappeared from the planner, catch up, the internet and the known universe it seems.

Anyone know why?

Available on planner & catch up here. Just watched 1 to 6.

Might be in planner because you recorded it but it is not available on catch up, episode 1 has gone

Lots of web chatter from irritated people like me asking WTF are "digital" BBC playing at

If anyone has a good online link for episode 1 please let me know, I have 2-6 recorded

[njd27]

Halmyre said:

Never did find out why Jed's hair was in Roper's secret room. Or the back-story about her child that seemed vaguely significant.

I thought it was a clever subversion: normally when someone in a film finds a hair whilst sneaking around it's a trap left to show that the secret papers have been disturbed. I found it amusing that Pine doesn't even consider this as an alternative, was expecting that to be the twist.

[Ayahuasca]

Funny how a millionaire baddie mastermind relies on just an audible burglar alarm to protect his secret study. No cameras, no signal sent to a third party, no signal sent to his own phone, just a normal siren, and funny too how the secret agent knew he would have none of those measures in place.

[carl_w]

Ayahuasca said:

Funny how a millionaire baddie mastermind relies on just an audible burglar alarm to protect his secret study. No cameras, no signal sent to a third party, no signal sent to his own phone, just a normal siren, and funny too how the secret agent knew he would have none of those measures in place.

In fairness, the story was written 25 years ago.

I've read a number of books whose plots would be completely destroyed with the advent of mobile phones.

[CAPP0]

Adam B said:

Lots of web chatter from irritated people like me asking WTF are "digital" BBC playing at

If anyone has a good online link for episode 1 please let me know, I have 2-6 recorded

They've done the same with Happy Valley s2, which I had planned to watch but now can't

[Laurel Green]

...so one has to purchase the boxed sets?

[Adam B]

I won't - I will just bin the lot and sulk.

And bear a grudge if I am ever asked an opinion on the BBC and continued licence fee arrangement

[megaphone]

Programmes are usually available for 30 days on iPlayer.

[r11co]

K12beano said:

Absolutely burst into laughter on the floor on the "James Bond Reference"..

I did too. Laughed and groaned so much I woke my 8 year-old up who thought there was something wrong with me!

Damien Lewis has just been superseded for the part of Bond IMO. Others are saying Tom Hardy, but if Layer Cake was Daniel Craig's audition for the part then Hardy has already been overlooked (plus he has a certain gormless quality).

[ralphrj]

Oddly Damian Lewis's next role is as a spy in a film version of a John le Carre novel, Our Kind of Traitor.

[r11co]

ralphrj said:

Oddly Damian Lewis's next role is as a spy in a film version of a John le Carre novel, Our Kind of Traitor.

Jostling for position!

[K666ADM]

Fantastic series, enjoyed each episode and will do again for sure. Start sequence to credits was non-stop terrific viewing.

Who needs a Roper? you can deal direct and cut out the middle man.
http://dohanews.co/uk-officials-push-for-multibill...

Im off to try and get myself in on the action and perhaps explode the goods before the transaction is complete and run away with a tall blonde lady and 300 million in my offshore account.

[Zod]

r11co said:

ralphrj said:

Oddly Damian Lewis's next role is as a spy in a film version of a John le Carre novel, Our Kind of Traitor.

Jostling for position!

Lewis is too old to start now.

[CooperD]

Superb series, really enjoyed it. Top work BBC and Hiddleston as the next Bond.

[r11co]

Zod said:

Lewis is too old to start now.

Roger Moore was older than Sean Connery when he got the gig.

[Ayahuasca]

Not really touched on in the film (haven't read the book), but it was very much Arms Dealing = Bad, preventing Arms Dealing = Good.

Not always the case.

Lets say that the arms that a buyer wanted were destined for (say) the anti-Assad forces in Syria.

Government legislation might prevent official sales to a 'non-state actor'.

But the UK Gov wants to support the rebels because it is in the UK's national interest.

What do do?

Enter the 'unofficial' arms dealer.

Our Intelligence services would be rightly pissed off that some low-budget 'law enforcement' operation was jeopardising the deal.

Hence, I guess, in the series the intelligence boys had to be made corrupt too.

[Adam B]

megaphone said:

Programmes are usually available for 30 days on iPlayer.

yeah I know - its just a stupid rule if a series lasts 31 days or more, at least keep all episodes availabel till say a week after series ends