Saturday night TV just awful

We (nearly) always like the foreign crime thing on BBC4 at 9 pm. Currently a Norwegian one called Wisting.
Usually record it or watch on catch up though.

Why is it that some nights there is nothing but rubbish on TV then other nights good programmes are on at the same time. Yes I know I don't have to watch TV every night.

I found Carmina Burana on youtube from 1994 Proms with subtitles if anyone is interested in adding it to their watch list.

I miss the glamour and glitz of Strictly! And I think it's a shame that Dr Who has vacated its erstwhile Saturday evening slot. I have watched Casualty since Charlie was a lad and it just became a habit! I'm glad I subscribe to Netflix as there's always something there that I can watch when the terrestrial channels are showing rubbish - and often old rubbish at that!

I don't think I've watched any Saturday night programmes for yonks. I don't like reality shows of any kind and don't watch Casualty. I can usually find a good drama I've already recorded and there are some old films on Talking Pictures. The early 1960s new wave movies (kitchen sink dramas) can be absolutely fascinating as I was too young to see them at the time. The clothes, the cars, the streets....just amazing to see them now. It's like time travel.

Yes, phoenix, sealover is right!

DH chose a programme about HMS Invincible followed by the one about ordinary Victorians with Tony Robinson.
I didn't argue because the rest looked dire so I tried to teach myself a new crochet stitch.

Our lives are so exciting!

Then Casualty, I didn't see Charlie so didn't he get paid tonight?

Yes, rubbish tv on a Saturday night. Although a friend recommended 'The Mallorca Files' which was on BBC1 at about 5.30. A bit of a light-hearted police drama set in Mallorca (of course). A British female police detective working with a rather dishy Mallorcan detective. Wastes 45 minutes quite pleasantly! A bit like Death in Paradise or Bergerac.

Nothing else on though I did watch the Bones Detectives which was interesting.

Now got BT Music on the tv, listening to the latest Alfie Boe and Michael Ball album, which is very good.

Saturday evening choice is very poor at the minute. We watched a film on Netflix called The Breadwinner. A cartoon film set in Kabul 2001. It was released in 2017. Good little film.

Agree that Saturday's programmes are awful. If we watch anything, before 9.00 pm, it will be a recording, or catch up.
We haven't watched Casualty for years.

DH watched a bit of NCIS then we watched Wisting.

Sara65 ?

History programmes on Channel 5.

Saturday night TV nowadays is for 16-24 year olds. I watch Casualty out of habit and I did enjoy tonight's episode although nowadays I have to put on subtitles because I either cannot understand the accents or the mumbling irritates me.

Tomorrow evening is good but I will have to record because the Profumo Affair will be on as well as Dragons Den and Vera.

Nortsat

Not at all, sounds lovely to me .

I agree Saturday evening television can be very poor quality. We always tape films during the week or watch one from Amazon Prime on Saturday nights with take-away, if we’re not going out.

This evening we watched an amusing Woody Allen film - ‘Small Time Crooks’, and had pizza, salad and a bottle of nice wine.

That probably sounds very pedestrian to lots of people, but we enjoyed the evening. ???

I haven’t put the television in tonight, had a look to see what was on, and quite frankly it was absolute rubbish.

Sent a long overdue email to a friend, read my book, dipped in and out of gransnet, now I think I’ll go to bed.

Vera tomorrow night, definitely something to look forward to.

Watching BBC 4 Wisting Skandi noir

I agree, Saturday night TV is abysmal. We watched Dad's Army, the one where the platoon have to look after the German submarine crew. It was good, same as it was the umpteen other times we have watched it. After that we watched the Coast prog about Cornwall but that appeared to be a series of repeats strung together in an incoherent way. DH is now surfing on his laptop and I'm on here.

I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling frustrated and disappointed. I usually spend Saturday and Sunday afternoons watching the Drama channel. Not today though.

I fell asleep over a book. The light is too poor to sew and I didn't feel in the mood for serious reading.

I've put the tv off!

I'm now talking to you all via my tablet. I might watch some YouTube videos for a while before I go to bed.
I like Einstein and Petra the African Grey parrots, what good talkers they are. I particularly like Petra talking to Alexa and Google home. ??

merlotgran Mr.Gravy and I are disagreeing on "hedgehog" he is favouring Michael Ball, for some reason I think it maybe Alexander Armstrong!

Have watched an old Midsomer, now waiting for Wisting to start on BBC Four. Agree that Saturday tv often seems geared to encourage you to go out!

Casualty was the first programme Mr P and I watched together when I invited him for supper.

(Lasagne, salad and garlic bread, possibly 21st April 2001)

I think Duck is Nancy Dell'olio.

We also like The Masked Singer because it is bonkers and so over the top.