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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.