Gone Fishing with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse is obligatory Sunday evening watching at the moment followed by Charlie Coppers Myth Country on BBC 2. I love Bob Mortimer and could happily watch anything with him in.
Charlie Cooper’s This Country (Made with his sister Daisy) is one of the best sitcoms of recent years imho.
Just finished watching both series of BBC’s Alma’s Not Normal. Here we have a young woman, Sophie Willan who has written and acts in a comedy that tackles real social issues of mental health, addiction, children in care and prostitution (escorts) with real heart and laugh out loud humour, without diminishing the seriousness of those issues. She plays the part great, and you can’t help but love her character’s positive outlook and determination. But a real shout out has to go to the brilliant portrayal of her heroin addicted mother by Siobhan Finneran, very funny verbally and physically but painfully sad too.
What makes it even more amazing is that Sophie has written from her own real life experiences being brought up in care being pushed from pillar to post, having a heroin addicted mother and to becoming an escort to help pay her way through her arts career.
She is a Bolton girl, and it is based in Bolton, which given the Bolton accent makes it chuffin funny too.
My son recently put me on to Sky’s Gangs of London. It is really good, if you do not mind a bit of gratuitous violence! There are two series and in the first the male lead is that lad who played the policeman in The Night Sleeper
We have just started to watch this, keeps you n the edge of your seat.
Gangs of London is one of my top dramas of its ilk. Good story, good acting, and some of the best fight scenes ever outside a Hollywood film. Makes The likes of Murder She Wrote or Mid-Summer Murders something made for kids by Disney.
Something a little lighter but entertaining is Brassic on Netflix.
Brassic has me laughing out loud. My favourite character is Jim the farmer…. Angry potty mouth and just hilarious!
My son recently introduced me to Colter Wall…….I had never heard of him but I find him easy to listen to
I play playlists in the car through Apple play and another that crops up a lot is a track called No Decoder by Yogi Lang. Another one I like!
Kate McCannon song, very strong Johnny Cash vibe. I like it.
It is always a delight to come across someone who has ben around for years but I have never heard of! Sivert Hoyem is Norwegian and since hearing this track I have been playing his latst album a bit
u heard of this bloke?
