“Ha ha, that person who’s been literally saying ‘prepare like the election could be announced tomorrow’ for months was completely caught out by our guy standing in the pissing rain (despite having somewhere indoors they could make the announcement) announcing an election! Huzzah!!”

It’s free to announce stuff like this, they’re well aware they will be out of govt before so much as a single weld is made, we haven’t got sufficient people in the navy to staff these anyway. It’s another “40 new hospitals”

SOMEONE BUILD THIS PERSON A STATUE

“1/3 read out loud to 2 million decimal places by 1st generation speech synth software over a solid white screen”

I’ve only seen the UK version (didn’t even knew w there was a US one!).

As a rule, things with Robbie Coltrane in are good, things without him in could be improved by the addition of some scenes with Robbie Coltrane.

The West Wing, although dated (and cringey in parts) is really sharply written and compelling.

If you can find it, Cracker is the kind of brutal nihilistic drama that HBO would later start making. Looks incredibly dated again, but makes Black Mirror look upbeat and optimistic

1 hour

The slightly thrilling tale told in real time of a man who got stuck rock climbing, only to be absolutely fine 60 minutes later