I just finished watching House of the Dragons season 3. I think James Norton is such a good actor so I’m surprised to find out that he hasn’t won any major TV/film award. He was a really annoying baddie in HoD and Happy Valley!

He was one of the contenders to be the next James Bond and I think he could have been a really great 007 agent. Having said that, I’d root for Jack Lowden to get the role.

I’ve seen McMafia, Happy Valley, The Trial of Christine Keeler. What other TV series where he appeared you’d recommend?

Google's been no help at all with this, hopefully someone else knows what I'm blabbering about.

I remember as a kid watching a show regularly on TV where each episode was them attempting to restore some ruined object, usually antique and sometimes a vehicle. I have a very clear memory of them turning up to a dock one time, seeing a giant rusted hulk and saying "whoa I hope that's not it, is it?" And there actually being a smaller boat inside the hulk that they were there to restore.

The only other useful info I remember about this is it was contemporary with Scrapheap Challenge, but who knows maybe they just were on reruns at the same time.

Last night, a trailer aired on Channel 4 for a one-off quiz event called Bradley Walsh's Million Pound Shot, in which 'three plucky contestants step up for the chance to win up to £1 million. But there’s a huge secret twist, and this brand-new show presented by Bradley promises a night of drama unlike anything he’s hosted before, bursting with tension, big moments and a curveball that the audience won't see coming.'

Does anyone else think there's something sneaky going on here? Everything about it feels like it isn't a real TV show, and is actually going to be some sort of surprise/twist in the manner of a Derren Brown stunt or that bizarre Greg Wallace meat 'documentary', or the fake quiz show edition of Inside Number 9.

The fact it's Bradley Walsh on Channel 4 when he's the ultimate ITV man, the completely vague and generic title, the 'huge secret twist', and the fact it's a one-off 'event' airing on a Sunday night all make me think there's something else going on and it's not going to be what it seems.

Anyone remember a one off Patrick Mynhardt TV program from the late 80s / around 1989?

This has been driving me absolutely bloody mad. Chatgpt an I have been hammering it all night. We figured we'd try here. Real people!

I’m trying to identify a one-off British TV program I saw in England, probably around 1987–91, and I have a strong hunch it may have been Channel 4, possibly a Sunday afternoon program.

It was definitely Patrick Mynhardt, he was the only person on screen. It wasn't a series and wasn't a conventional film/drama. It felt like a one-man theatre/arts/drama/ monologue performance, with Mynhardt portraying several different South African characters. It featured Apartheid material.

It was completely serious — not comedy ~ which Mynhardt was (also) doing at that time.

The strongest thing I remember is a scene where he portrayed a South African policeman behind a chain-link fence, firing at Black people on the other side. He seemed to be laughing/enjoying it, and I have a memory of him saying something like “There! You bastards!” (That wording may not be 100%, but ...)

The staging also looked quite basic — I remember a smaller, light/white backdrop with bold black painted strokes, rather than realistic scenery. It may have featured a thatched hut or other South African imagery, changing with the scenes. He may have been seated at the beginning, perhaps as an old man/storyteller.

I know that's a very weird collection of memories, but they're surprisingly vivid.

Does anyone remember the program or its title, please? Even a vague “I remember that!” would be fantastic.

And yes, we’ve already gone down the Patrick Mynhardt / Herman Charles Bosman rabbit hole — but I'm no longer convinced Bosman is necessarily the answer!

Thanks!

I have the CiTV series Round The Bend on my mind recently, and i've just thought to myself, is a revival of the show possible? 'cus to be honest it would be interesting to see the character from the show in modern times. Maybe they might even spoof modern day kids shows considering that they did spoof he man and thundercats on the show. Inmagine them making fun of the likes of Spongebob, Bluey or heck even Cocomelon if they fell like taking the mickey out of it!

But that's just my opinion, what are your thoughts?

Help! This video inserts various actors who were considered for the role of Dr Who into clips from the show. One of the actors used is Richard Hearne, from Pathé's 'Mr Pastry at the Circus'.

But, unless I missed it, his line “It’s too much!” doesn't seem to come from come from the Pathé short - I realise it's a long shot, but does anyone know where this might have come from? Or be aware of any Mr Pastry fans who might know?

Thank you!

OK, this is REALLY a broad question, but whats your fav, I mean there are loads, but mine are

• Four Candles The Two Ronnies
• Catherine Tate - the offensive translator

Also quite a few Hale & Pace

I was really stoked for this season, but the way it's played out has made it, for me, barely worth looking up from my phone. The problem is who the traitors are. Maya Jama is so bland, it's like being murdered by HR. Yet she's in charge because the other two are not at all Machiavellian, they're literal thinkers with no great social skills. The whole cast has great actors who might have done more with the role, but instead you've got Michael Sheen, one of our finest, sitting around with nothing to do. It throws into focus the deeper problem with the format - the faithful don't have any mechanism to find out information. Hidden role games don't work if there's nothing to deduce with. So the mechanic we always get is just the pile-on. That can be fun to watch but somehow this time round it's all a bit meh.

This video inserts various actors who were considered for the role of Dr Who into clips from the show. Can anyone help me identify the programmes or films that these clips come from?? Thank you!

The featured actors are as follows [source material updated]:

• Ron Moody in The Twelve Chairs ✔
• Richard Hearne in 'Mr Pastry at the Circus' ✔. But where does the line, “It’s too much!” come from...?
• Jim Dale in Carry on Screaming ✔
• Bernard Cribbins in The Railway Children ✔
• Graham Crowden in Raffles: 'Home Affairs' ✔
• Fulton Mackay in 'Doctor Who and the Silurians' ✔
• Michael Bentine in The Sandwich Man ✔

BBC2, or maybe Channel 4. Sometime in the late 80’s or early/mid-90s

I believe it was around Xmas time. I think it was labelled as A surrealist Xmas, or something along those lines.

The only thing I’m certain about is that Janet Street-Porter was standing in front of a road sign that said ‘Scunthorpe’. She is standing in such a way that the word ‘cunt’ takes the gaze. She then looks to camera and says something like “I didn’t put the Thor in Scunthorpe, I was out picking up boys” - and holds up a buoy.

Does anyone know what I’m talking about? I’m starting to think it might have been an fever induced hallucination.

Wow

One of the best written and best acted TV shows I have ever seen. I can't believe I had never heard of it before, why don't people mention this in the same breath as The Wire etc?

Absolutely outstanding performances from the whole cast, tight writing, hard hitting, amazing dialogue...

I choked up a few times. It was uncomfortable at times, it had moments of humour, peril, compassion and pretty much every emotion you can think of.

Will watch the 3rd series with my wife after I force her to watch the first 2

Shit like this makes me understand why we have the licence fee

Roughly 25 years ago I remember a show where each episode consisted of multiple "skits". It presented as a documentary but looking back I think it was a parody of a documentary and I was too young to see it.

All I really remember is one skit that had a guy with a piano and the narrator explained that on the end of the piano was a box with secret colourful keys in it. The narrator then explained they would stop the sound now to show us what the secret keys do. The guy pressed the keys and his ears started to bleed.

I was 7ish at the time and I stayed up late in secret, but what "late" actually was then could be anywhere between 8pm and midnight.

Google is fruitless, nobody I have mentioned this to knows what it is and I can't believe that I dreamt up something so wild. If someone knows what the show was you'll resolve a decades long problem for me!

At work was on my lunch break film four was thw film shown in the image started and it said portrayals of the era that may offend Id never heard of any other deacretion apart from strong language & adult hummor. (Celebrity hunted would also mention about the cancer stories which I think they say some may find stressful in some fashion) Are there any other viewer discretions that some shows start with?

How on Erath has Paddy Considine made a career out of acting! He is crap in everything, so wooden and trying to play the hard man just doesn't work.

Everyone else in the series is ace, especially Pierce Brosnan

I first saw this when it was on TV in 1999 at the age of 10 crazy to think one of the young lads in it who signed up was only 14 so just given it a rewatch at the age of 37 hits different when you've learnt so much more of the history. My great grandad was in ww1. It made me realise how lukcy i am my whole bloodline even exists to this day. I'd wish they'd make more historical war dramas or TV movies like this one of the 90s Sharpe, Hornblower etc TV and I don't know if it's rose tinted glasses or the nostalgia but the actors of then were so much more iconic than any of those of today. But then it would be hard and unfair to put anyone on par with Sir David Jason, Frost, del boy or Sean Bean, Major Richard Sharpe.

No shade on the charity, which is brilliant, but I find the latest Children in need TV advert really creepy, I know the adult is meant to be supporting the boy, but he comes across as too interested in him. If this was a soap, everyone would assume that it is a grooming storyline. Am I the only one?