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Guess what?
9 Oct 2018 08:30 pmI checked Talking Pictures (Freeview ch. 81) to see what they had on tomorrow and THEY ARE STARTING PUBLIC EYE!!
If you are in the UK you can now watch S4 (& presumably onwards) for FREE on yr Telly at your own convenience! (Provided you can get the channel, such technology being what it is.) (I checked the episode and it was "Welcome to Brighton?")
S4 is the 7-episode serial about Frank as a probationer, so it is atypical to the rest of the series as well, and, as I've mentioned before, you need to watch at least 4 or 5 episodes to give it a fair go because it takes a bit of getting used to the way it actively demands the audience make up their own minds about everything.
(I don't know why I'm so excited. I have the DVDs and if anyone round here actually wanted to watch it, they'd have watched it on YT or got the DVDs and even if people did watch it they'd probably just hate it (WRONGLY). BUT STILL. There it is! Actually on the telly!)
If you weren't around here in 2013/2014: so, I watched Public Eye on DVD. It was awesome. I stopped talking about it non-stop eventually, but it is basically about a small time enquiry agent who does all the cases other fictional detectives have no time for because they are too small and ordinary. It just takes a bit of getting used to, because it's very mundane, but it's not straightforward and demands the viewer make their own minds up about everything. I can't explain it. My best explanation is the vid I made once. (I lent it to my parents who claimed it was unwatchable and then got addicted, which is pretty much what I did too, so that's how I know a person needs to watch several episodes.) And Alfred Burke is amazing, but I may have mentioned that a few hundred times already.
I mean, obviously it is old telly and will have occasional things that will make yr hair stand on end (although for my money, the way it asks the viewer to make up their own mind works for it, and it's better than most things, and it's still intelligent TV; plus its heart is always with the underdog, even if it still gets some things wrong sometimes). But Talking Pictures do warnings, so that should help.
If you are in the UK you can now watch S4 (& presumably onwards) for FREE on yr Telly at your own convenience! (Provided you can get the channel, such technology being what it is.) (I checked the episode and it was "Welcome to Brighton?")
S4 is the 7-episode serial about Frank as a probationer, so it is atypical to the rest of the series as well, and, as I've mentioned before, you need to watch at least 4 or 5 episodes to give it a fair go because it takes a bit of getting used to the way it actively demands the audience make up their own minds about everything.
(I don't know why I'm so excited. I have the DVDs and if anyone round here actually wanted to watch it, they'd have watched it on YT or got the DVDs and even if people did watch it they'd probably just hate it (WRONGLY). BUT STILL. There it is! Actually on the telly!)
If you weren't around here in 2013/2014: so, I watched Public Eye on DVD. It was awesome. I stopped talking about it non-stop eventually, but it is basically about a small time enquiry agent who does all the cases other fictional detectives have no time for because they are too small and ordinary. It just takes a bit of getting used to, because it's very mundane, but it's not straightforward and demands the viewer make their own minds up about everything. I can't explain it. My best explanation is the vid I made once. (I lent it to my parents who claimed it was unwatchable and then got addicted, which is pretty much what I did too, so that's how I know a person needs to watch several episodes.) And Alfred Burke is amazing, but I may have mentioned that a few hundred times already.
I mean, obviously it is old telly and will have occasional things that will make yr hair stand on end (although for my money, the way it asks the viewer to make up their own mind works for it, and it's better than most things, and it's still intelligent TV; plus its heart is always with the underdog, even if it still gets some things wrong sometimes). But Talking Pictures do warnings, so that should help.