What I've been watching (168/365)

[white_hart]

The current series of The Great British Sewing Bee came to an end last night. I very much enjoyed watching it, though it did seem as though they were making an awful lot of dresses. Or maybe they always made lots of dresses and I just noticed more this time because I was in a watchalong group on Facebook and people kept saying "I'd wear that" and I wouldn't wear any of them? Anyway, I was pleased by the final result; the winner was the person who I'd had as favourite from week 1 (though I would also have been happy to see one of the other finalists win; the third I felt was probably not really quite up to it).

While I was waiting for Sewing Bee to start last night I watched the first two episodes of We Are Lady Parts on All4. This is a comedy series about an all-female Muslim punk band and so far I'm loving it.

T and I are rewatching This Life, which is on Britbox. This involves regularly shouting "Egg, you muppet!" and "Miles, you wanker!" at the TV, with an occasional foray into "Fuck off with your biphobia, Warren!". Although even the women, who seemed reasonably sympathetic nearly quarter of a century ago, are fairly awful viewed from middle age. (The series also turns out to feature a very early appearance by a young Martin Freeman. And apparently the "10 years on" special, which cannot possibly have been almost 15 years ago, features an early experience by a young Jodie Whittaker.)

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[antisoppist]

I have seen two episodes of We Are Lady Parts due to still being awake and on the sofa when it comes on, one of which was last night's and one of which was earlier in the series but not the first one or the one before last night's and I like it a lot even though I don't know quite what is going on. I shall watch it again from the beginning.

I saw Ramon Tikaram play Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar in about 1998. When he was first in This Life, he was "brother of the more famous Tanita Tikaram". She played my university in about 1988 and I wish I'd gone, although my friends did keep doing impressions of her intoning "This is a song about a cathedral... it's called... the cathedral". I digress and will spend the morning listening to Tanita Tikaram on youtube.

[perennialanna]

In my family it was "She's from Basingstoke, you know!". Basingstoke being our nearest practical shopping town (Winchester was about the same distance in the opposite direction, but contained far fewer cheap practical shops).

[white_hart]

In my family it was "she came to our house once!". (My mother did an access course at Farnborough Tech in the late 80s, and at the end of it my parents threw a party for the people from her course. One guy brought along his girlfriend who went to Basingstoke Tech and bored everyone rigid by talking about busking all the time. And then about six months later Good Tradition hit the charts.)