One of the best recent comedies, doesn't seem to have anyone talking about it. Get on it, its on the iplayer

I absolutely love Lovejoy when I was a kid, always sat with my mum and dad watching it, and had a major crush on Lady Jane Felsham 😅😅 The repeats are on UKTV Drama each day so I watch them back on record when I get in from work.

I (40 m) recently watched ‘Inside our Autistic Minds’ with Chris Packham. Outstanding show. Being autistic I can relate to all 4 of the participants from the two episodes. Things like masking, routine, obsessive collecting and organising.

I could relate as an individual person to that show. I was discussing it with my sister and she said my wife and I should watch ‘The A Word’. Our son aged 6 (diagnosed when he was 4) is autistic and she thought we’d relate to it as parents of sn autistic child.

We started watching it last night. Bare in mind we’re usually asleep by 21.00 everyday. We were on ep 2 and realised it was 23.30. We were absolutely mesmerised by this show. Apart from where it is set, it is like watching our experience on TV.

Naturally there’s a bit of artistic licence like most tv shows, for instance how easily the parents get referral appointment to see the specialist but things like that aside, I feel this show is incredible at showing the experience of raising an autistic child. Even down to how your relatives react to your struggles.

I wish we would’ve watched this show when it started but tbh my wife and I were just trying to survive, mentally. At the time my wife had her suspicions however, I was in complete denial about my son’s autism.

My son didn’t start talking until he was 4, nearly 5. We still can’t have a conversation with him at 6.

A stand out moment for me was when the dad trys to get Joe involved in the football match and shortly after Joe slaps his dad in the face.

That happened to me when we took my little boy to see Santa. When we walked in I knelt down to comfort him and he turned around and slapped me in the face. Just one of many moments I can relate to.

My wife and I feel very alone in our experience. Our boy is the only autistic child in his class and while he is intelligent in many ways, he is behind at school and we’re considering pushing for an ehcp as we don’t think he’ll survive high school.

Did ‘The A Word’ help you relate to being the parent of an autistic child? Maybe make you realise that you aren’t the only ones going through it?

Can someone please tell me what's the name of the song that plays in the background at 15:24 in the first episode of season 1 of the British show Big Boys? I love that melody, but I've listened to every song on the official playlist and still can't find it😭

Hello! I ask you because I hope you can help. Did you know if in the 1970s there were British colour television series based on fairy tales? Like The Storyteller or The Fairy Tale Theatre, but in 1970s. I found only 1980s series.

Because I find them interesting when I see what’s been done?

Ive seen a couple episodes of four in a bed where the winner wasn’t the best stay for the money but they purposely undercut everyone else so they won. I understand this strategy but why doesn’t it happen on Come Dine with Me? I know people are extra critical of the food to defend lower scores but I’ve never seen the clear worst win like I have on four in bed.

I feel like in the 70s, 80s and 90s there was always a great sitcom on, although admittedly a fair few of them wouldn’t chime with modern values.

Still, shows like Steptoe & Son managed to show struggling working class characters without it feeling like middle-class people punching down out of spite. Same with Only Fools & Horses in the 80s.

Far too many shows I see today just feel as if today’s drama school graduates think all poor people are automatically [a] thick and [b] funny, so they don’t try too hard to write any actual jokes.

Dad’s Army still works, Drop The Dead Donkey, Father Ted, The IT Crowd, loads of vintage sitcoms still stand up.  Absolutely Fabulous was very much of its time but is still mages to raise a smile today. Similarly sketch shows; where are today’s Fast Shows and Goodness, Gracious Mes? 

I don’t know quite how you’d classify The Day Today or Brass Eye, but I can’t think of any contemporary show that come anywhere near those two for sheer laughs-per-minute.

The Comic Strip crowd all moved on, fair enough, but who has come along to replace them?

The last thing I remember seeing that I thought was a likeable, mass-market sitcom was Mum. And that was about five years ago.

If you’ve got any recommendations that I’m missing out on, here’s your moment to pop ‘em in the comments. Somebody somewhere must be writing something funny.

I watched the ninth episode when I was 8 in 2013 and eight years later I remembered the scene where the character revealed she had snakes for hair. I also know it was cancelled but I never watched the rest of the series after I watched that episode and I'm 19 now.

edit: I did watch the rest of the series after I remembered it

I'm loving the interplay between S&B, and the entire police force / detective team, and the families - all wonderful! But the actual crimes / investigations are really oddly handled. Is it going to be like this for all the seasons? (I've just wrapped up S3).

Take for example S3 E6 (the show where old people are being killed in a care home). They do a great job setting up the two main suspects, but then - once they get all the evidence they need - they say they need motive to convict. Next thing we know, >!they've found DNA on a syringe!<, and ... that's it - still no motive that they said they needed. Many of the episodes seem that way - a fairly good 'build up' for solving the crime, and then ... done. It's like they just ran out of time on each story and decided to keep all the build-up and not bother with the 'second half' of the case.

The saving grace is, the 'crime' part of the show is almost incidental to the real story, which is the interplay between the players, but having watched things like 'unforgotten', which had brilliantly crafted crime stories, this seems a bit weak.

I’m an American so forgive me for being naive and a bit uneducated on the subject but how realistic are the topics discussed in the show Blue Lights? Particularly the conflicts between police and northern Irish loyalists? Does all the contentiousness still exist even today?

What did you all think about the last scene of baby reindeer? It pretty much took me right back to the start when Martha was upset in the pub and got the cup of tea on the house, only this time the tables turned and it was Donny that was feeling the way she felt

I need some help please identifying a TV show from the late 80s/early 90s - a UK show that had contestants searching a room for clues (each clue lead to another) - I'm sure it was set in a manor or something, and the presenter wore a smoking jacket (I thought it was Tony Slattery but I'm pretty sure it wasn't now). They used to search different rooms like a study, dining room etc - but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called - any ideas please?

I've just watched 'Red Eye', a new mystery series from ITV. Normally, I enjoy a good conspiracy thriller but this one is so badly written and so full of plot holes I could barely finish the first episode. N.B. some spoilers follow....

The basic setup is that a British doctor, having been stabbed in a night club and crashed a car in Beijing, high-tails it to London where he's detained before he can clear immigration at Heathrow. Apparently, the Chinese have put pressure on the British government to extradite him without due legal process so he's put on a flight back to Beijing along with a British detective (who, perhaps inevitably, happens to be of Chinese origin). Also on the plane returning to China are some doctor colleagues who were at the same conference and who literally just got off a flight from Beijing. On the plane, several people start to die, as does the credibility of the plot.

The plot holes pile up quicker than the bodies:

• Why would any sane tourist hire a car in Beijing? Even if they did, the chances of finding traffic-free roads, as shown here, are vanishingly small.
• Given China's reputation as the ultimate surveillance state, why wasn't the doctor picked up immediately after he crashed his car? How did he manage to get through security and passport control at Beijing PKX?
• How did immigration at Heathrow manage to detain the doctor so rapidly? The plot suggests that the British government is keen to accede to China's extradition request but when did any British administration act so promptly?
• Why wasn't the hapless doctor allowed to phone a lawyer when he was detained? Civil servants always like to cover their backsides in case things go pear-shaped.
• How likely is it that conference colleagues coming off a ten-hour flight would immediately agree to take a return journey to Beijing? Admittedly, one decides not to but, when he reaches his car in a Heathrow car park, gets bundled into a white van parked next to it. How likely is it that the baddies in the white van could park at short notice right next to the victim's car at Heathrow?

The dialogue is also awful. For example, would a detective accompanying a suspect back to Beijing really say: “Your money and your white privilege made you think you could get away with it"?

In short, this series is so bad, I suspect it will be shown at film schools as a perfect example of what not to do in a screenplay. The real mystery is how such a bad series still got to be made when so many presumably sentient people needed to green-light it.