Lucky for us up here, it's on Movie Central, so we don't have commercials.
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Berengaria
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- Joined: July 2010
- Location: northern Vancouver Island, BC Canada
Tonite is the finale in Canada
I have my dvr all set up so that I won't miss the last two hours of this series!
Lucky for us up here, it's on Movie Central, so we don't have commercials.
Lucky for us up here, it's on Movie Central, so we don't have commercials.
My 4 girls! No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ~Lady Montagu
[quote=""EC2""]If it comes to the UK, I may watch it through my fingers and with the door open ready to leave the room pronto![/quote]
The first episode is on Channel 4 tonight!
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the- ... eo-diaries
The first episode is on Channel 4 tonight!
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the- ... eo-diaries
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Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4335
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Yes, I shall be watching it! 
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
[quote=""Ken""]The first episode is on Channel 4 tonight!
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the- ... eo-diaries[/quote]
Oooh cripes! I am out at re-enactor dinner tonight. If our host puts the telly on, I think I can guarantee heckling from the audience!
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the- ... eo-diaries[/quote]
Oooh cripes! I am out at re-enactor dinner tonight. If our host puts the telly on, I think I can guarantee heckling from the audience!
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Saw five minutes of it. The usual costume and props gaffs, but it looked as if it might be quite fun TV if one could put away one's historical head. Someone on Facebook told me they had the Empress, aged about 6, sitting on Henry I's knee being told her brother had died. But the Empress was actually the firstborn of Henry I's legitimate children and should have been somewhere around 20 give or take. Also, apparently they had Henry II being born on the night that Henry I died, which puts them a couple of years adrift.
For general viewing it will probably be good entertainment though.
For general viewing it will probably be good entertainment though.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
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Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4335
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I enjoyed the first episode and thought it was quite close to the book as I remember it! It was entertaining.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
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Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5823
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "The Girl in the Painting" by Kirsty Ferry
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
I haven't read the book yet but followed it OK for the first hour or so, then got a bit lost, so much coming and going! But I think I'm more or less straight with it now, just getting to know all the characters.
I must admit I thought the death and birth on the same night was a bit of a coincidence, dramatic licence being used there methinks!
I must admit I thought the death and birth on the same night was a bit of a coincidence, dramatic licence being used there methinks!
Currently reading "The Girl in the Painting" by Kirsty Ferry