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Home Fires and Indian Summers continue to prove highly entertaining - no one else watch these? and Penny Dreadful to come shortly! Hussah!

Bonus! Penny Dreadful returned last night! Have this on record to watch as soon as possible [8D]

Penny Dreadful doesn't appear to be resting on its laurels. Very interesting opening episode - Dr Jekyll, Mr Renfield and Dracula have all joined the cast! [8D]

Better Call Saul, season 2 and season 6 of the almighty Game of Thrones.

"The Fighting Lady"

WW2 era documentary/propaganda piece about the USS Yorktown operational life from Kwajalein to the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Lots of footage of day to day life plus images of the carrier under fire and air strikes by the carrier pilot. Looks to be the source material for a lot of the most familiar images of US carriers at war.

Started watching Billions last night on Sky Atlantic. Early days but looks like being another classy production from this channel

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Started watching Billions last night on Sky Atlantic. Early days but looks like being another classy production from this channel

Remember that a British 'billion' is not the same as an American billion...we would call the show 'Thousands of Millions'. [8D]

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Started watching Billions last night on Sky Atlantic. Early days but looks like being another classy production from this channel

Remember that a British 'billion' is not the same as an American billion...we would call the show 'Thousands of Millions'. [8D]

warspite1

But its an American production [;)]

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words ... -a-billion

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Started watching Billions last night on Sky Atlantic. Early days but looks like being another classy production from this channel

Remember that a British 'billion' is not the same as an American billion...we would call the show 'Thousands of Millions'. [8D]

warspite1

But its an American production [;)]

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words ... -a-billion

Oh. In that case, it needs to be re-titled 'Millions of Millions' for imperial viewers.

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Remember that a British 'billion' is not the same as an American billion...we would call the show 'Thousands of Millions'. [8D]

warspite1

But its an American production [;)]

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words ... -a-billion

Oh. In that case, it needs to be re-titled 'Millions of Millions' for imperial viewers.

warspite1

Something like that [;)]

No one watch this either??? Wow [X(]

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No one watch this either??? Wow [X(]

I wish I could. [:(]

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No one watch this either??? Wow [X(]

I wish I could. [:(]

warspite1

That's a real shame - 2nd episode of Billions and this is GOOD - 3rd episode of the 3rd series of Penny Dreadful and the storyline gets ever more interesting.

Probably another series that no one else watches [8|] but I finally found some episodes of series 3 of The Americans on Sky. For some reason I can only watch a few episodes though - but it looks like I can start to watch Series 4.

Hussah!!! [:)]

Just watched the Channel 4 documentary on Jutland. Interesting in places - not least what actually happened to HMS Indefatigable - although as is often the case it promises more in the preamble (which went on for too long) than it could deliver.

I don't understand why HMS Black Prince sailing away from the German lines is a mystery as she was spotted, on fire, from more than one destroyer. Maybe I just assumed she was heading toward the British lines at the time but no one could tell from the few eyewitness accounts available?

Anyway, worth watching all in all.

Great episode of Penny Dreadful - just three cast members in total. Brilliant.

Watched another Jutland documentary last night. The Royal Navy's bloodiest battle. I have to say, bar a few minor gripes, this was very interesting. The program centred around three main things a) Were the British ships badly designed and b) why did five blow up with such catastrophic loss of life and, c) how should Jutland be viewed?

Most interesting was the design section. Every book about the battle that I've read states that the German ships were much better in withstanding punishment - and the number of watertight sections in the German ships is always mentioned.

In the program they compared Queen Mary with Seydlitz. Queen Mary had just one water tight bulkhead less. They then used a computer program and a mock up of the Queen Mary's hull, and subjected the hull to exactly the same damage (including the torpedo) that Seydlitz suffered (the Germans photographed every hit taken by their ships) to see if she would sink. The Queen Mary, like the Seydlitz, did not sink. This was interesting. In the previous Jutland program one of the contributors (Norman Friedman no less) said that had it not been for the explosions, it is likely the British would have lost no battlecruisers that day....

The second part centred on the poor magazine and cordite handling of the British ships. Another test was done. First they ignited cordite in the open air. Result: a lot of smoke and a slow burning fire.

They then mocked up a turret, lift and magazine arrangement with no doors closed between the compartments. A few bags of cordite were placed in the turret and the bulk in the magazine. The bags in the turret were then ignited, replicating a shell hit. The flame then seeks the path of least resistance, travelled down the lift and into the magazine. Unlike in open air, in an enclosed space, the cordite simply explodes with frightening force. Obviously this does not confirm that a direct hit on the magazine was not the cause - and this can probably never be known for certain.

The third part was a mix of the human cost to the RN - and briefly looked at two 16 and 17 year old's that died on the Queen Mary, and also what the battle result meant.

The Germans kept a record of the vital stats of their school children in all the big cities at various ages. It is amazing to see from this alone just how much the blockade - which Jutland reinforced - hurt the Germans and helped bring an end to the war. You see that year on year the average height of the children went down and down. Nick Jellicoe in the book Jutland The Unfinished Battle describes the rations that the German sailors, largely bottled up in port after the battle had to rely upon. Grim.

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Better Call Saul, season 2 and season 6 of the almighty Game of Thrones.

I really enjoyed S1 of Better Call Saul, much more than I expected to. Bob O is a great actor and there was just enough humour in it.

GoT of course too, just waiting for that Bas**** High Sparrow to get his head lopped off!

Also just started watching The Night Manager only 1 Ep down but it is interesting so far.

Oooohh I say, us naval enthusiasts are being spoiled for choice at the moment - there's a two part documentary on the Hood and the Bismarck on More 4. Coolio.

Huzzah! Just read that a fifth and sixth series will be made of The Americans.

Absolute quality production.

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Huzzah! Just read that a fifth and sixth series will be made of The Americans.

Absolute quality production.

It is indeed a quality production. I just finished episode 10 of season 4. Fantastic.