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When are we going to stop the tedium of endless repeats of Poirot, Miss Marple and other Agatha Chtistie etc that seem to be dominating ITV iplayer at the moment. I can stand one or two but we are getting several in one day, I never thought much of them the first time around so why is ITV 3 pushing them down our throats at a great rate of knots yet again.
I know this sounds like a rant but when there is so much crap on TV at the moment why choose to saturate the medium with many shown episodes of a boring series, there are lots of other old fresher series that ITV could choose.
I personally love the repeats of The Royal and Heartbeat.
And why are some pay only and some free? There seems neither rhyme nor reason to the way they are selected.

Turn the telly off mate.

In reply to Al Evans:

You've lost me Al.

You have issue with repeats of Poirot, Miss Marple and other Agatha Christie but you do not have issue with repeats of The Royal and Heartbeat.

Is that the gist?

In reply to grumpybearpantsclimbinggoat:
Well yes, I do think Agatha Christie has dated far more, also The Royal and Heartbeat are not force fed, also they are set in Yorkshire, which is why I prefer Emmerdale to Coronation St.
Though I also like Doc Martin and that is set in Devon, but that could have something to do with Carolyn Catz which is also why I like The Vice and Murder in Suburbia.
Oh I forgot she is also in DCI Banks, another favourite but more for Stephen Tomkinson who I got to know in Wild at Heart, a series I really loved that has now been shelved. I think both he and Carolyn are in the next series of DCI Banks which is currently being made.

In reply to grumpybearpantsclimbinggoat:

Yes, he likes repeats of things that he likes, but he doesn't like repeats of things that he doesn't like!

In reply to Blue Straggler:

THat is only partially true, I don't like overexposure of anything, especially things I don't like.

In reply to Blue Straggler:

And anyhow she is not an Arthur Conan Doyle, but more the Mills and Boon of crime mysteries.

In reply to Al Evans:


Best not go to Fawksey's flickr page then

In reply to Al Evans:

Stop watching ITV3, it is a repeats channel, what do you expect?

In reply to Al Evans:

Try Murder She Wrote spice yer life up a bit. Some of it's a bit racy so be careful not to choke on your Werthers.

In reply to Al Evans:

Generally speaking, ITV is rubbish. Choose a better channel or are you quite restricted in Spain with your options of British tv? Why not try the Spanish channels - surely there must be something watchable?

In reply to Al Evans:




I love the DCI Banks books, but I really disliked the TV series, mostly because of Tomkinson's appalling acting!

In reply to Al Evans:

ITV is crap, always has been.

You ought to watch more BBC, the Bridge and Sherlock are particularly good at the moment

In reply to Al Evans:


Congratulations. You've just upset approximately half a million Cornish people.

In reply to Chris the Tall:

I love Sherlock, but isn't The Bridge the one with subtitles, I can't do subtitles.

In reply to Oceanrower:


Sorry I know it's in Port Issac, but the borders are a bit fuzzy around there.

In reply to Al Evans:
It's miles from the border Al but never mind.

I have only the vaguest of notions of the whereabouts of northern (from my perspective) places like Blackburn, The North York Moors, Leeds, Wigan, Stockport, Stockton (are they the same thing?) etc, never mind of all these crags people keep talking about on here for some reason.

In reply to mbh:

Well except that Devon and Cornwall, north and south are the most confusing county borders in England.

In reply to Al Evans:

I reckon it's on a river.

In reply to Al Evans:

It's very simple, in Cornwall it's jam on the scone, followed by the cream, whereas in Devon the cream goes on first, then the jam.

However I do reckon that Bude ought to be in Devon because it's part of the culm coast

In reply to Chris the Tall:

I thought it was more to do with where you put the crimp on the pastie.

In reply to mbh:

I thought that was a euphemism...

In reply to Al Evans:

www.netflix.com

In reply to Al Evans:

Going to see this;

https://www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au/site/what-is-on.php?detail=a-murde...

For my daughter's 19th Birthday.

We introduced her to classic "whodunnits" at an early age, it helped her English skills immensely.

In reply to Al Evans:

I nominate this for the best thread title of 2014 [so far].