Just spotted a show on BBC2 @22:00 tonight - "Mackenzie Crook Remembers... Detectorists".
Not on iplayer yet so it might be new?
Cheers !
Didn’t spot this - ta for posting!
RM.
Thanks for the PSA!
Ring pull... '83... Tizer!
Pub?
Are you lot metal detectors?
She seems nice
I reckon I could get under that
We're staying in Suffolk this week with family. There are pigs on the new permission by the looks of things.
Lemonade?
Good programme. Thanks for the PSA.
Brilliant interview. I read a written version with Mackenzie of more or less the same a month or so ago, perhaps in the guardian.
but he sums it up well. “I’m proud of that”. He bloody well should be.
That was ace, what a nice bloke.
Enjoyed that. Might have to watch the detectorists all over again again
I haven't found a hawking whistle yet but I do get the shivers if I find a complete crotal bell and it still rings.
As a new Detectorist myself this year , I'd never seen or heard of "The Detectorists" until a chap at work mentioned it when he found out I detected ... I'm not a big tv fan but found it out online and loved it and still watch it now and then
Well that was fascinating and lovely. Thanks for the heads up. I liked the bit about the music, saying that Johnny Flynn wrote the score specifically for it. I didn’t know that. He mentioned that people play it at their weddings. Mrs Binners walked down the aisle to it on her way to becoming Mrs Binners 😀
Not Detectorists I grant you, but Mr Crook is back on form with Small Prophets (all eps on iPlayer).
(all eps on iPlayer)
I wish they wouldn't do that. We're going to watch one a week... so I won't be opening this thread again...
Same here - watched the first episode last night and it feels like it’s going to be a lovely watch and certainly not to be binged!
“what bit - underwater or welder”
Thanks for that - will watch on iPlayer. One of my favourite shows of all time!
I'm really liking these 'Detectorists imaged as Penguin/Puffin classics' postcards.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1752527041/detectorists-penguin-peacock-puffin-and?
Theres a couple of nice posters as well. Usual Etsy advice - put stuff in your basket and leave it a few days and you'll nearly always get offered a discount.
As above, we're going to try to strong that out. Same goes for Dinosaur, also on the iPlayer.
Imagined
We watched the first episode this evening, and much like the Detectorists, thought it was beautiful on so many levels.
It had me hooked and we watched the second episode despite saying we should savour them, doh!
The mannerism where Gordon reaches behind his back and strokes the end of his greasy ponytail is a cringy delight.
Just finished Ep4 … still beautiful.
Is it itchy?
Some really good, daft, simple scenes that im already repeating to madame and laughing
As above, we're going to try to strong that out. Same goes for Dinosaur, also on the iPlayer.
Thanks for this - my wife doesn't really get Mr Crook's work, but she'll love this. A weekend in Glasgow overdue too, me feels.
I really really wanted to love Small Prophets but I only liked it. I thought it had some great moments but managed overall to be subtly less than the sum of its parts.
In the first or I think second episode, he's asked by a customer for a hand drill. He replies "a haaaand driiiilll?" In the same posh old lady kind of way that my parents used to say "a haaaaandbaaaag?" should one be mentioned. It was from a comedy show of the era (70/80s) and I do hope it's a niche reference to it. I'll have to ask my mum what it was from.
Yes! The importance of being Earnest. First time I've ever seen that!
I really really wanted to love Small Prophets but I only liked it. I thought it had some great moments but managed overall to be subtly less than the sum of its parts.
I felt the same, although I suspect my perception is clouded by not wanting a comedy involving someone growing homunculi in his shed. I wanted another season of The Detectorists.
I think I'll probably return to it in the summer but give it a clear slate.
i really enjoyed it. Feeling a bit bereft as we watched the last episode last night and dont have one to look forward to today.
It was a weird/bizarre/funny/sad/warm story with some lovely characters and observations. Shopping trolley guy I swear i saw in tesco on saturday, he even had the same laugh.
how do you follow a tour de force like Detectorists? You can't.
But im very glad he is still writing this sort of storyline for tv
I thought the last episode was perfect.
Some beautiful moments and it's not often I watch TV that intensely.
Last night with friends it was all we talked about.
So - excellent effort.
Very disappointed with Small Prophets. One of the very few shows that we finished off in two nights or fewer 😁
Id have liked to stretch it out for another few weeks, or nights at least. It was a delight from start to finish. What a talent Crook is.
Dinosaur is on our radar, but Ashley Storrie has been so rotten on her R4 show that she has joined Alan Carr and Bradley Walsh on our "pull a hamstring rushing for the off button" list.
I watched them all. Wonderful stuff. In a time of monsters Crook has made something beautiful for us to escape the real world. He’s in danger of becoming a national treasure if he keeps this up.
Time for me to go on my break.
Loved it. Now boring on at everyone I know to watch it, like I did with Riot Women.
3 episodes in to Small Prophets. I think it might be Crook's best stuff yet. He does a very British take on magic realism way better than anyone else (not that there are many actually trying!).
I love that there's a real bit of darkness in this at times that hasn't really been there in his other stuff, and also real bits of utter silliness. Just like life.
The performances are (except for maybe the paranoid neighbour who grates on me a bit - maybe the point?) all absolutely spot on. Michael Palin is a bit of a revelation for me - imbuing the dad with real humanity and earnestness in what could have been a bit of a caricature role.
Loving the fact the homunculi are stop-motion and not CGI, and just the right side of actually unsettling.
Brilliant that Crook the director is keeping on with the neat little visual touches. Favourite moment so far is the Capri oil leak being a foreshortened hare (I know the Watership Down audio suggests a rabbit, but a hare would be more in keeping with Crook's work) - utterly pointless to the story (so far) but still just feels right and not out of place.
Give the man a feature film as writer and director! Suspect that slow moving niche TV suits him better though...
(for balance, Mrs Noise finds it a bit weird and prefers Detectorists and Gummidge)
I love that there's a real bit of darkness in this at times that hasn't really been there in his other stuff
His own description is that it's a darkcom.
We loved it.
Only watched Episode 1 so far.
"A hand drill?!" and the bit about Brazil nut had my sceptical family laughing, and the room dressed as Christmas was incredibly sad.
the room dressed as Christmas was incredibly sad.
Absolutely - reminded me of Christmases past and being a kid in the 1970's. Very sad and quite touching. My younger brother got an Action Man Helicopter one Christmas 🤣
Thoroughly enjoyed Small Prophets though 🤩
Best bit of telly for a long time!
"D'you sell buckets?"
"no"
Best thing on telly for a while, and shot locally to me, so I kept recognising places...weird
except for maybe the paranoid neighbour who grates on me a bit
I like the guy. Been watching Big Boys on Channel 4 recently - try that, if you haven't. He's more endearing there. He's also in Run Away on Netflix - he seems like hot property just now.
I also like Dennis Pennis (Paul Kaye) in Small Prophets - the role suits him. One episode to go, I'm wondering how it all pulls together, or not.
Just finished it, thought it was brilliant
3 episodes in, and it's very good, but we're trying not to watch it too quickly!
I completely missed his Worzel Gummidge when it was on - is it worth watching??
3 episodes in, and it's very good, but we're trying not to watch it too quickly!
I completely missed his Worzel Gummidge when it was on - is it worth watching??
Yes. Another gentle bucolic fantasy without being Reform nostalgic about the countryside. Highly recommended.
Given the huge number of high profile shows he's been in over the last 30 years, it tickles me that your go to for Paul Kaye is still Dennis Pennis!
Same here - I can never remember his name so have to resort to Deenis Peenis, and then his real name eventually comes back to me.
Great telly, finished it tonight. Loved Micheals weirdness/dry sense of humour, and the brilliantly writted nosey nieghbours (every street has 'em, minimalist house with grey everything) Really touching at times too.
Never got the deal with the kid on the bmx though?
Never got the deal with the kid on the bmx though?
Unless he takes a bigger role in a future series, I thought that was just a one-liner opportunity to refer to him as being nicknamed Elliot (i.e. same as the kid in ET, being on a BMX)
The neighbour and Brigham both sweeping the meteorite pieces into a dustpan and binning them, proper made me laugh.
"Unless he takes a bigger role in a future series, I thought that was just a one-liner opportunity to refer to him as being nicknamed Elliot (i.e. same as the kid in ET, being on a BMX)"
Think it was just a fun reference, but more than a one-liner. The BMX is the right one too (or at least has the right paint job). Just missing the basket on the front!
Maybe also a nod to having something not of this earth with supernatural powers hidden in the shed?
Awesome that Modest Mouse was the thing that brought the two outsiders together.
(Media Studies teacher overthinking time) Also means that the 'normal' Clive next door is the true outsider in the close between Michael, Olive and Elliot.
Absolutely adored Small Prophets, for so many reasons.
Brigham building the jump over the bins for the tandem was the epitome of Crook's writing brilliance IMO. The setup is all you need, leave the rest to the viewer, it's such a rewarding way to write.
Back to the Detectorists, I've only just started watching it as a result of Small Prophets. My favourite line, while the club president Terry is lying in hospital bed announcing his retirement and that Lance should take over.
Lance: What does it involve?
Russell: Buying a new jar of Nescafe every 3 months.
Terry: Its more than that!
Russell: Every 4 months
I rarely LOL!! at the telly, but that prompted it.
There aren't many things on TV that make me laugh hours after watching them, but the scene where he 'poured' out his cereal started me chuckling and then 'tit boxes' made me guffaw. I finished it last night and don't want to wait for the next series.
Lots of nicely observed and crafted characters to enjoy in what one hopes will be a future series. Comparing it to Detectorists is too sweet a very high bar, but it really was wonderful telly. Back to repeats for now.
Within the first seconds I was hooked – I used to put "doubler" malted wheats on the side of my bowl just like that when I was a kid – it made my hair stand on end. Then he got into the car of my childhood dreams – a Capri 3.0S.
Great show, loved it!
Nice article about the programme here that's worth a read: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/mackenzie-crook-16th-century-small-prophets-interview/
Starting Detectorists tonight hopefully. Somehow missed that first time around.
Capri 3.0S.
Not sure what it is, but I don't think it's a 3.0S...the consensus of the Ford nerds over on PH seemed to be that it was a 2.0 with the 2.9 from a Granada swapped in.
Not sure what it is, but I don't think it's a 3.0S...the consensus of the Ford nerds over on PH seemed to be that it was a 2.0 with the 2.9 from a Granada swapped in.
It has a twin exhaust (I don't think the 2.0S did). And it certainly sounded like a V6 (although of course the 2.9 is a V6 too). I don't suppose upgrading the single to a double exhaust would be much of a job so I guess I could be wrong.
Given the huge number of high profile shows he's been in over the last 30 years, it tickles me that your go to for Paul Kaye is still Dennis Pennis!
It honestly never occurred to me that he could be called anything other than Dennis Pennis.
Starting Detectorists tonight hopefully. Somehow missed that first time around.
Enjoy! I sometimes wish I could be a Detectorists virgin again..
So I have just finished watching it – very enjoyable and sympathetically-acted throughout. The one bit that really annoyed me, though, was that nobody made any attempt to clean up the oil leak from the Capri and no vehicles left tyre tracks down the road after going through it (such as the wagon that dropped off the manure). A small thing I know, but it frustrated me as it featured quite heavily throughout.
I'm one of the lucky people that has never seen The Detectorists, so I am going to start that next.
What a great series. It’s another show where you can’t really tell someone “it’s like such and such a show”… it stands alone.
The warehouse retail workers really took me back to my time at Halfords last century. So well observed.
It was lush. Made me chuckle and, as someone else said up there ^, I don't think I've ever watched a final episode of something as intently as I watched that.
The one bit that really annoyed me, though, was that nobody made any attempt to clean up the oil leak from the Capri and no vehicles left tyre tracks down the road after going through it
I assumed there might be a reason for that, and the fact that it was so rabbit shaped that will be featured in series 2.
Given the huge number of high profile shows he's been in over the last 30 years, it tickles me that your go to for Paul Kaye is still Dennis Pennis!
The original Dennis Pennis video was my most watched "thing" during 2nd year at Uni, he'll never be anyone but Dennis Pennis to me - can still quote almost the entire video ("The peach always falls!")
Oh, and just finished Detectorists. Have loved settling in at the end of day recently to have some quiet telly time with that - just got the final 2022 special to watch.
I assumed there might be a reason for that, and the fact that it was so rabbit shaped that will be featured in series 2.
I tried to tell myself that, but oil is oil (off, and Michael stood in it right at the end as he was walking back to the motorbike and it was solid).
The one bit that really annoyed me, though, was that nobody made any attempt to clean up the oil leak from the Capri and no vehicles left tyre tracks down the road after going through it
I assumed there might be a reason for that, and the fact that it was so rabbit shaped that will be featured in series 2.
It was a hare, magical creatures which don't observe the laws of physics. Absolutely loved small prophets, the question "have you had your break?" wasn't funny until the first scene of the first episode.