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edhopper

(33,584 posts)
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 01:27 PM Nov 2014

Anyone see "Turks and Caicos" on PBS?

Not only a darn good story with top rate acting (David Hare writer/director, Bill Night, Chris Walken...) it was a cutting indictment of the super wealthy elite.
Best line from Wionna Ryder: "they have everything, why are they always so angry." So true.

The first installment of the trilogy "Page Eight" was a condemnation of Britain's involvement with torture post 9/11 and the security industrial complex.

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SteveG

(3,109 posts)
3. excellent stuff
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 04:21 PM
Nov 2014

Page Eight was fantastic and Turks and Caicos was very well done. I am looking forward to tonights installment Salting the Battlefield.

MerryBlooms

(11,770 posts)
5. Awesome kick off to the series and I'm really looking forward to tonight's episode.
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 04:41 PM
Nov 2014

Another winner from Masterpiece!
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csziggy

(34,136 posts)
6. It was great! I wish they had shown "Page Eight" as part of the trilogy, though
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 04:53 PM
Nov 2014

I didn't really understand the Worricker character until I looked up the series and read about "Page Eight."

Looking forward to the next part.

edhopper

(33,584 posts)
7. They showed it a couple of years ago
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 05:00 PM
Nov 2014

probably it's a licensing thing. One time showing. It is available for $ on Amazon and itunes.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
8. Figured as much - but I will wait. Eventually it will show up for free somewhere
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 05:10 PM
Nov 2014

I don't do iTunes and haven't done streaming through Amazon - not particularly interested in tying up my computer for a TV show or movie.

edhopper

(33,584 posts)
9. That is how usually deal with
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 05:14 PM
Nov 2014

this type of think as well.
Might show up on BBCAmerica eventually.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
10. True - right now watching the Sherlock series on BBC America
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 05:33 PM
Nov 2014

This is a major failing of DVRs - not enough capacity to store things for long. I had VCRs from very early along and kept tapes for years - even still have a few BETA tapes I wish I could transfer to digital formats. Recording directly to DVD is just not reliable and with DMCA not even possible. But today the technology is designed to make sure entertainment and documentaries are fleeting. I suspect the powers that be hope our memories are as fleeting.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
12. Or upgrade your equipment - or have a failure
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 06:00 PM
Nov 2014

I really hope that most things will be preserved and ported from one technology to another as things progress. I am encouraged by what is available on YouTube and think that once it is in digital format it will be continued to be carried forward.

As one example, ABC's Fridays - a show started in competition to Saturday Night Live - did not live long and did not have much to commend it to be preserved. The one thing that was well worth preserving was a skit, The Ronnie Horror Picture Show, that was shown on air only once, the Friday after Election Day, November 1980. For years I regretted not taping it, but even if I had, once my Beta machine died, I would not have been able to watch the show.

Even after the internet allowed people to preserve memories, a video of that skit was not available, just someone's transcription of the skit. Now it is on YouTube and it certainly brings back feelings:





If oddball things like that can be preserved, I have hopes of more obscure items!

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
13. We saw episode 1, and hope to catch the rest
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 06:14 PM
Nov 2014

It was actually terrifying, slowly building, building.

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