The Gone - BBC IPlayer

Pittcity

To get iPlayer subtitles click on screen and then on middle icon at top (arrowed in my pic) for subtitles menu.

We don't have that, Pittcity.

A menu comes up on the left hand side with various settings, you can put subtitles on so I did, but they didn't appear.

We did manage to understand most of it with thd volume turned up and a couple of rewind!

To get iPlayer subtitles click on screen and then on middle icon at top (arrowed in my pic) for subtitles menu.

I still didn't get the subtitles even though we found the button and switched On.

Thank you Terri, on seeing this yesterday I watched the first 2 episodes last night. Really enjoyed them but thought screen quite dark and dialogue mumbly but now I know how to find subtitles I will continue to watch.

Also thank you BarbadosBelle for some great recommendations will write them down for reference.

We often get stuff made in Australia some time after the UK gets it. No idea why, possibly we don’t pay enough? Our actors and actresses don’t get huge wages.

Binged watch it... Lovely scenery... Happy Memories of NZ!! Hope there's going to. be another series......
What a cliffhanger!

Thank you, barbadosbelle, I've started Secret City.
I'm another fan of A Place to call Home. 📺

Why do they have to leave series on a cliffhanger?

Gransnet is great for TV recommendations.

Just finished it and I loved it What a cliffhanger my daughter has just given me her idea of a name and I d never thought of it but now think she’s right
Oooohhhh

Sparklefizz

I loved A Place to Call Home.

I started watching it in Australia but haven't seen the last episodes so may have to start from the beginning again.

Apparently the lead actress was very good in Janet King but I'm not sure if that is available here.

I loved A Place to Call Home.

Thank you for the list, Barbadosbelle. I love Australian/NZ dramas so I have made a note of them all, and have already started watching City Homicide. I am also a big Sam Neill fan and will be watching Palm Beach tonight!

granfromafar

Good suggestions, barbadosbelle.
Have just seen a new Australian drama advertised starting this Thursday, 9pm ITV, called The Twelve, starring San Neill. Looks promising.

Oh, I like Sam Neil!!

Certainly our TV drama production over here is looking rather inadequate by comparison.

Yippeee! I’ve found the subtitles! 🥳

Thank you, Bluebelle

Good suggestions, barbadosbelle.
Have just seen a new Australian drama advertised starting this Thursday, 9pm ITV, called The Twelve, starring San Neill. Looks promising.

Bea65

Very disappointed with the ending...must be a new Series in the making?? I did enjoy the beautiful scenic shots but storyline a bit weak ...

I just came on to say this - what happened at the end? It's sort of obvious I suppose how it will continue if there is another series, but I'm not sure I can be bothered starting all over again with it in 6 months or whatever. NZ did look lovely though.

Very disappointed with the ending...must be a new Series in the making?? I did enjoy the beautiful scenic shots but storyline a bit weak ...

Thanks for the list Barbadosbelle

I have mentioned A Place to Call Home many times on these threads as it is absolutely outstanding.

The Newsreader is also outstanding, Series 3 is in progress.

I have also watched The Dr Blake Mysteries which was very good.

You haven't mentioned these two, which I watch regularly on Amazon Freevee:
All Saints - hospital drama series from the 1990s.
Blue Heelers - Police drama series from the 1990s. Local Police force where they go out if someone pinches a chocolate bar from the shop! It's really great, easy watching but not boring, and likeable characters that you care about.

I'm so sorry, this thread has been well and truly hijacked. Should have had a separate thread for Aussie drama.

and also Noni Hazlehurst from ‘A Place to Call Home’.

Noni Hazlehurst used to present Play School. Have you seen her YouTube video persuading a child to go to sleep? (not for those of a nervous disposition 😁)
The story today is about a little baby who doesn't want to go to sleep. And the baby is making Mummy and Daddy very tired

Barbadosbelle

Thank you for the list, TV is generally so boring just now so I'll look out for these.

Darby & Joan - we just watched this and hope there's another series. Love the scenery and trying to work out where they are. At one point I'm sure they stood under a tree where I lay on a sunbed 😁 but half an hour later said they were "going up to Noosa" which is 24 hours south!
There are a lot of trees on beaches over there. 🏝

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So agree, Chestnut. I do love the Aussie output of series.
And ‘5 Bedrooms’ and ‘Colin from Accounts) are superb.

May I suggest a few other series that I have enjoyed over recent years (some more than once!). A few are about 20-years old but it doesn’t matter, they still work. All are available on AmazonPrime, FreeVee, iPlayer or channel Catch-ups.

‘Mystery Road’ - Police series with the amazing Aaron Pederson

‘Rake’ - Legal series. Very funny. And naughty - especially the episode guest starring Sam Neil ………

‘Jack Irish’ - Detective. Ex-Police. Starring Guy Pearce.

‘The Newsreader’ - Set in a television studio starring Anna Torv

‘Secret City’ - Political conspiracy (also with Anna Torv)

‘The Heart Guy’ - A top surgeon forced to return to work in his small home town. Stars the gorgeous Rodger Corser. a.k.a. ‘Doctor Doctor’

‘McLeod’s Daughters’ - Life, Trials, Romance; set on a ranch inherited by two half-sister with differing ideas of what they want to do with it - run v. sell. My husband actually rather enjoyed this too.

‘Wanted’ - Exciting drama about two young ladies (strangers) who witness a murder whilst waiting for a bus. They then have to go on the run to escape the murderers and a corrupt senior policeman.

‘Darby & Joan’ - Just been on television. Starring the fabulous Greta Saachi and Bryan Brown. Man dies in Australia when he’s supposed to be on business in Spain. Wife goes there to find out why and ‘bumps’ into ex-cop who helps her. Delightful, great scenery and marvellous marvellous acting from the two leads who look like real people (grey hair/not stick-thin).

MY NUMBER ONE …

‘A Place to Call Home’ - set just post-war and very atmospheric. An Austalian nurse returning by sea to Australia after working in Europe meets the wealthy Bligh family on board where she sees a family secret. She ends up working in the Cottage Hospital in ‘their town’ where she falls in love with the son and gains the hatred of the family matriarch (the fantastic Noni Hazlehurst) because they are the only two who knows the ‘family secret’. Amazing series that I’ve watched three times over the years and know that I will watch yet again.

WHAT I’M WATCHING NOW …

‘City Homicide’ - Police series set in Melbourne. From 2006-2011. Very exciting. Very dramatic. Can be rather gritty at times. Stars Nadine Gardner from ‘The Doctor Blake Mysteries’ fame and also Noni Hazlehurst from ‘A Place to Call Home’.

I like to watch an episode of something in bed on my iPad late at night (whilst my husband and son watches some man-thing downstairs - at present ‘Road House’ which definitely isn’t for me! This is my present bedtime fix. 84 episodes over 5-series. I’m on Episode 24 so quite a few happy watching hours still ahead of me!

I hope that this isn’t too boring/long a comment but I feel that it could introduce some Austalian Television virgins to series that might interest them and occupy a lonesome hour or two.

By the way, I’m not Australian - and haven’t ever been there!!

P.S. a newish Australian film to finish off with that we watched a couple of weeks ago on AmazonPrime….. ‘Palm Beach’ starring Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Richard E Grant. Reunion at the Palm Beach Sydney home of the ex-manager of a rock-band to celebrate his 70th birthday with the players of the band and their families. Very lovely Sunday afternoon film.

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I finally managed to get the subtitles in episode 6, so will have to watch the earlier ones to see what I missed! On our TV, whilst on pause mode, there was an option on the bottom left of the screen, so must vary according to manufacturer.

I am enjoying it so far it’s slower paced with great family backstory and I love that it’s in new zealand

Another vote for Australian dramas. Loved Five Bedrooms.

I really wanted to watch Fat Friends again, Ruth Jones, Alison Steadman, but there are no subtitles!
I’m deaf now, so I’m very disappointed.