Great Canal Journeys

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FiF said:

eg that voted nation's favourite 21st century sitcom, Mrs Brown's Boys, really???!!???

That's the trouble with asking people what their favourite sitcom or whatever is; they always reply with the last one they have seen.

The canal programme is good, but I enjoy the UK based ones more that the European ones.

But I'm the same with Mr Portillo's railways. The UK ones are first rate but I'm not so keen on his European ones (but his recent US ones were very good).

Edited by snuffy on Thursday 25th August 13:30

[FiF]

One thing that grates with me, clearly he can handle a narrow boat, anything else though. On the French canals steering from the upper wheel position, stop oversteering ffs, keep it straight, seemingly oblivious to the random weaving about.

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FiF said:

One thing that grates with me, clearly he can handle a narrow boat, anything else though. On the French canals steering from the upper wheel position, stop oversteering ffs, keep it straight, seemingly oblivious to the random weaving about.

Sometimes they do the things for effect. "Go on Tim, bounce it off the walls a bit - it will make better TV" the director most likely said to him.

[truck71]

snuffy said:

Sometimes they do the things for effect. "Go on Tim, bounce it off the walls a bit - it will make better TV" the director most likely said to him.

Having watched a lot of the various series I think he's generally not a great helmsman. Great show though, along with the Portillo's railways it's the BBC doing what it does best.

[Bonefish Blues]

truck71 said:

Having watched a lot of the various series I think he's generally not a great helmsman. Great show though, along with the Portillo's railways it's the BBC doing what it does best.

It's not, you know

[truck71]

Bonefish Blues said:

truck71 said:

Having watched a lot of the various series I think he's generally not a great helmsman. Great show though, along with the Portillo's railways it's the BBC doing what it does best.

It's not, you know

Lol, was the canal series on C4? Keep catching the repeats on one of the freeview channels.

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truck71 said:

Lol, was the canal series on C4?

Indeed, and John Sergeant's canal programme is on ITV !

[Laurel Green]

Back in the UK for the last in the series.

[Laurel Green]

A news series starts this evening at 8 o'clock.

Tim and Pru take a trip to Bristol where Tim is soon to play King Lear at the Old Vic, and revisit both their childhood homes in Devon.

[Laurel Green]

Heads up.

[Bonefish Blues]

Hat overboard

[Laurel Green]

I'm repeating myself here but, Tim really should get some spectacles.

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Love the sound effects.

[The Mad Monk]

FiF said:

There's stuff I don't watch, .... However I have a solution that works for me, it's the off button, a recommended alternative not used sufficiently frequently, but don't feel the need to insult the cast or crew.

If only more people had your attitude!

[Laurel Green]

Hunt for Nessie this week?

[Bonefish Blues]

I've done that trip, it's stunning

[Laurel Green]

I might well just be doing the same having seen this.

[Bonefish Blues]

Of course you could have a week or two of utter misery, weather depending...

[Laurel Green]

The last time I was up that way was driving from Lands' End to John O'Groats and was very lucky with the weather, so you could well be right. or ?

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Not off to a good start.