Why do you think I was watching BBC2 in the first place!   

Mollinary

But dont they normally put the "impotant" sporting events simultaneously on 1,2,3,4, CBBC, and CBEEBIES, so you cant miss them.

IanS

True, but last night they had only scheduled three hours of tennis on BBC2, allowing BBC1 viewers to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark (one of my favourite films) and, if really brain dead, casualty.  Obviously at the last minute someone realised this pathetic allocation of time to the tennis was not enough, and so BBC1 was taken over for the whole evening.  But that was not enough. What to do on BBC2 prime time on Saturday night?  Who cares, thought the BBC scheduler, and lumbered us with some antique pop programme repeat and an episode of "coast"??  At least that's what I thought it was, between periods of catatonic torpor!   

Mollinary

Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 July 2012, 08:19:15 AM
You mean there's somthing on BBC other than BLOODY TENNIS.

IanS 

It's a welcome relief after weeks of boring BLOODY football!

Each to their own I guess.

Cheers,

Kev

No the football gets you suicidal, WEimbeldon and you comit it.....

Sell the bloody thing to Murdoch.


IanS

Ahh, you missed the highlight of the evening, Richard II on BBC2.  
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00s90j1

Well Lemmey, I didn't actually.  As it started over here at 10.00 o'clock I watched that, and the rather dippy Derek Jacobi piece after it!   The play itself was "amazing".

Mollinary

Started watching but manflu forced me to bed . Looked pretty damned good though. Looking forward to Henry IV (not sure if it's part I and II) and Henry V if they are as good as this one.

Henry IV will be both parts!

They have been heavily edited I understand.

IanS

Quote from: ianrs54 on 03 July 2012, 07:40:38 AM
They have been heavily edited I understand.

IanS

Richard II was edited but I still thought it really quite good. A little strange at times as many of the outside scenes had minimal/no extras!  Mind you it wasn't as good as Mark Rylance playing RII at the Globe Theatre in 2003.

How was it 'edited'?

Seemed to be word for word to me; certainly the bits i was tracking with the text in front of me.

Thought it was ruddy marvellous.   

Henry V's Agincourt scenes are either going to be a massive CGI operation or,

"Where - O for pity ! - we shall much disgrace
With four or five most vile and ragged foils,
Right ill-dispos'd in brawl rediculous,
The name of Agincourt."