Speak Up Saturday: What are you watching?

[yourlibrarian]

It's already Saturday again, which means it's time to take stock of what we've been watching and how we've been liking it. So let's share!

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Oh there was an Alleyn series? I don't think I knew that. I finished reading all of Marsh's books last year so I'm not sure I'd see this but I'll try and remember to find it as I'm curious how it was cast.

[wendelah1]

No, why would you? I mean, the first episode was in 1990, and then they waited so long to make another that the original guy wasn't available and they had to recast. I watched episodes 2 and 3 last night. The new guy is fine. A little less angsty, which is okay by me. The pilot made a point about how he'd "had a bad war," like that was unusual or something? Did anyone in the UK have a "good" war?

[yourlibrarian]

I'm just thinking that this may have run on PBS Mystery back in the day, but if it was that stretched out then maybe they never did.

And heh, yes.

[wendelah1]

The books were written starting in the thirties but the series is set postwar. Sounds like quite a few changes. The first book in the series is episode three. (I just looked it up.) Maybe I will watch the series, wait a few years so I will forget the plots and then read the books. There are audio books. So tempting.