The Trial Of Christine Keeler

[237SJ]

BBC 1 29th December. That should be interesting. First of 6 episodes. Will anyone else be watching?

[tonyav]

Yep should be interesting that, 237SJ ( he would say that though, wouldn't he ).

[237SJ]

I`ve got a book about the Profumo affair upstairs. Haven't got around to reading it yet. Maybe I should, before I watch the series.

[Mamyalynne]

I shall certainly record it to watch even if I don't watch it live.

[brainiac]

Everything now seems to be so long, have so many episodes. This is 6 episodes, Gold Digger was 6 episodes (about 3 too long, with a duff, weak ending), His Dark Materials is 8 hours, and the new version of A Christmas Carol is THREE hour-long episodes.

Unless a drama really grabs me then I increasingly won't put in the time to get to the end. I only persevered with Gold Digger because I'd already invested in the first couple of episodes, and didn't guess that it would just peter out.

[tonyav]

I'll probably do the same as Mamya.

[237SJ]

I`ll record it (just in case work goes tits up) but I should be home and able to watch it.

[maggiebee]

Not sure if I'll watch The Trial of Christine Keeler. However, thanks for the reminder about A Christmas Carol brainiac, looking forward to this.

[naomi24]

I record everything I want to watch so I can skip through the adverts - although much gets deleted unwatched. I'll record this.

[237SJ]

Brainiac - if a show is very good 6 episodes is not long enough for me. I never watched The Crown but have recently been watching series 1 - it could have gone on and on as far as I was concerned.

[brainiac]

It's been written by Steven 'Peaky Blinders' Knight, maggie, and is replete with the F word, and I think I read that it begins with a child urinating on Jacob Marley's grave.....

[maggiebee]

Ooh, a bit of reality then brainiac? Should be really good.

[brainiac]

Yeah, we get a lot of children urinating on graves round my way :)

[Mamyalynne]

Another one to watch or record - I may order take aways ;-)

[237SJ]

^and don't forget Mystify about Micheal Hutchence followed by an INXS concert on BBC2 on 28th.

[tonyav]

I'm looking forward to seeing 'A Christmas Carol' seeing as it's been written by Steven Knight.

[Mamyalynne]

OOh Ta 237, I have guests so may have missed that.

[237SJ]

Yes, I wouldn't have known about it but I tried to see the film a month or so ago. It was only showing in art house cinemas in London so I never got around to it. A friend emailed me and told me about it tonight.

[Ken4155]

Looking forward to both The Trial of Christine Keeler and A Christmas Carol. Have read that the latter is a very dark version of the story, produced by the same team that gave us Taboo.

[-SharonA-]

What was her crime?? Sleeping with MPs???

[tonyav]

Profumo was accused of being a soviet spy, , Sharon.