9.00 BBC Gentleman Jack

We've been let down badly before though. I still weep when I remember the disappointments of "Tipping The Velvet".  We were promised lubricious girl-on-girl rave-ups, and we were lied to.

Yes I am sure this will be popular

remember we can go blind

Standard BBC box ticking stuff, far too diverse for my tastes.

Very good I thought. Looks like being the best drama ever about a lady coal-mine owner.

Wouldn’t it have been great if when she looked the other way when she had to shoot the horse,when the camera panned back the horse was still standing & the bloke holding him was dead.

Ann Lister was an educated women of some ability

Her claim to fame seems to rest on having a series of affairs with other women

which she recorded in her own code in dairies.


I am not surprised the BBC are showing this, they are very keen on this sort of thing

BBC researchers probably spent years trying to find a story, any angle from history with which to promote diversity. Any black characters shown in what era, 1810?

I was watching Years and Years, so missed this gem, which was on last week but I only got around to now. Yet another 'story' where they tick all the diversity boxes first, then work up a story. They even made Farage a woman.

I didn't realise it was a period drama until the sex started

jumper3 - "BBC researchers probably spent years trying to find a story, any angle from history with which to promote diversity. Any black characters shown in what era, 1810? I was watching Years and Years, so missed this gem, which was on last week but I only got around to now. Yet another 'story' where they tick all the diversity boxes first, then work up a story. They even made Farage a woman.

This is fluent bo77ocks isn't it?.

The work wasn't even instigated by the BBC.  It is almost totally the work of playwright Sally Wainwright who used to visit Lister's home when a child.  It took her 20 years to get the story even to filmable format. One of the major complexities was that the story is based on Lister's diaries, many of which are written in code.

.....and it was just pure happenstance that it pitched slap-bang in the middle of the BBC commissioning team's 'Acceptabilty Venn Diagram'.

May 20, 2019 -- 1:00PM, blackbarn wrote:

jumper3 - "BBC researchers probably spent years trying to find a story, any angle from history with which to promote diversity. Any black characters shown in what era, 1810? I was watching Years and Years, so missed this gem, which was on last week but I only got around to now. Yet another 'story' where they tick all the diversity boxes first, then work up a story. They even made Farage a woman.This is fluent bo77ocks isn't it?.The work wasn't even instigated by the BBC.  It is almost totally the work of playwright Sally Wainwright who used to visit Lister's home when a child.  It took her 20 years to get the story even to filmable format. One of the major complexities was that the story is based on Lister's diaries, many of which are written in code.

No it is not. And please don't lower the tone with your use of language. The writers of these dramas know damned well the BBC wants to meet diversity targets. What I am saying is that they are going after storey lines that fit that demographic. The make up of Years and Years is frankly ridiculous and takes away from the story line.