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Post by pandaeyes on Dec 21, 2023 10:02:28 GMT
Christmas Eve 10 pm.
Mark Gatiss has adapted this Conan Doyle story. Set in Oxford in the 1880s. Two students played by Kit Harington, and Freddie Fox are obsessed with Egyptology....
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Post by bidiein on Dec 22, 2023 12:47:57 GMT
Looking forward to this.  |
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Post by goodhelenstar on Dec 22, 2023 19:45:00 GMT
I will watch this but not with great expectations as I find MG's adaptations of ghost stories are not very ... ghostly. I remember being frightened out of my wits by ghost stories in the past, but I was a lot younger of course!
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Post by bidiein on Dec 25, 2023 8:55:28 GMT
I enjoyed that. Nicely creepy and beautifully filmed. Freddie Fox is an amazing actor.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Dec 25, 2023 9:25:08 GMT
He is, and thankfully I recorded this as I fell asleep and missed almost all of it! It's had good reviews so I'm looking forward to seeing it eventually.
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Post by marion on Jan 6, 2024 17:33:19 GMT
I’ve just watched the second Mark Gatiss Conan Doyle offering from Christmas. Inside Classical: The Hound of the Baskerville was a dramatic reading of the story against a classical soundtrack by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Gatiss read Sherlock Holmes and Sanjeev Bhaskar read Doctor Watson. It was really good! Very involving indeed. Quite a Victorian style of entertainment but thoroughly enjoyable.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jan 7, 2024 9:38:45 GMT
I saw that too – I did enjoy it but thought the actors struggled a bit to make themselves heard over the very loud score. I like Neil Brand very much as an expert on all things musical, but thought this was a bit OTT. Perhaps my TV was at fault, I'm sure it would have been fine in the auditorium.
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Post by marion on Jan 7, 2024 13:32:25 GMT
No I think you have a point about the volume levels, Helen. I had the subtitles on as usual though, so it was OK.
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Anymore to come?
