# Broadchurch: Tonight (08/07/13) BBC America **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586 "2013-08-07T14:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/101 "2013-09-16T15:22:56Z")
Note that if you connect your cable or satellite box to the TV using an HDMI cable, enabling the captioning on the TV doesn’t do anything as the closed captioning part of the signal is stripped out. You have to enable it on the cable or satellite box. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/102 "2013-09-16T15:23:08Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Yes. Brilliant! Eh’ll bae a wee nae brae ach, lassie. Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/103 "2013-09-16T16:10:08Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Brilliant! Eh’ll bae a wee nae brae ach, lassie. Or something like that. Comin’ throo the rye! ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/104 "2013-09-16T16:19:11Z")
Got to watch 1.06 in DISH on demand this weekend. Yaay! 🙂 They’ve got this week’s episode labeled as “episode 6” so I hope it doesn’t mess up again. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/105 "2013-09-16T17:23:32Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I believe you’re right. > > What I don’t get is that the big-city journalist is working for a tabloid, yet acts all surprised when the tabloid changes her story to make it more sensational. Yeah, as a former newspaper reporter myself, both eyebrows hit max height on that one. She works for A TABLOID. Hello?!?! The article you write isn’t yours, honey. It belongs to the paper. She’s supposed to be a seasoned reporter? Nuh-uh. That doesn’t compute. Editors can make any and all changes they deem necessary while ignoring any further input from the reporter. I saw it more than once in the newsroom personally. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/106 "2013-09-16T17:30:23Z")
> [@BrokenBriton](#): > > My fav is a one-hour stand alone from a series called _Accused_, she was in S2E2 _Mo’s Story_ - if _Accused_ is on Netflix or whatever, that whole thing is of an outrageously high standard. She got a Best Supporting BAFTA for that: > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21bvtcbJR3Y](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21bvtcbJR3Y) It is on Netflix…at least it was on instant watch earlier this summer as I watched it all. _Mo’s Story_ was the best episode. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/107 "2013-09-16T19:25:17Z")
**Rhiannon8404** - proper quality, didn’t you think? > [@Scubaqueen](#): > > Yeah, as a former newspaper reporter myself, both eyebrows hit max height on that one. She works for A TABLOID. Hello?!?! The article you write isn’t yours, honey. It belongs to the paper. She’s supposed to be a seasoned reporter? > > Nuh-uh. That doesn’t compute. > > Editors can make any and all changes they deem necessary while ignoring any further input from the reporter. > > I saw it more than once in the newsroom personally. I assumed the idea was to inform the audience of how that game works; I’m sure it’s difficult to include the screaming obvious at times but, given the importance of that arc to the whole drama, I guess they were determined the point got across. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/108 "2013-09-16T19:29:33Z")
Incidently, the real life person who the character-assassination-by-media of Jack could have been [loosely] based got an apology from the police today: > [@](#): > > The retired public school teacher Christopher Jefferies was arrested and questioned for two days after the body of 25-year-old Yeates was found on Christmas Day in 2010. > > His arrest prompted lurid headlines and though the real killer, Vincent Tabak, was charged with Yeates’s murder three weeks later, Jefferies remained on police bail until March 2011. > **[Christopher Jefferies wins apology over Joanna Yeates murder arrest](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/16/joanna-yeates-police-apologise-christopher-jefferies)** > > Police stand by decision to arrest retired teacher, but say they should have made it clear sooner that he was innocent ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/109 "2013-09-17T10:18:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > ike so many shows I watch these days, there aren’t too many likeable characters, except I \*really \*like Miller, the Broadchurch detective. I love the way she puts her quirky-jerky DI in his place while still acknowledging his authority. I like her relationship with her husband (I hope he doesn’t turn out to be the murderer ☹ ). It’s interesting to watch her struggle with each new bit of information about the people she’s known for years, while still maintaining her professionalism and commitment to the investigation. > > What else has this actress been in that I need to check out? Olivia Colman is turning into a British acting goddess, in the realms of Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, turning her hand to tragedy and comedy in equal measure. She’s hardly off the telly these days. I particularly loved her in ‘2012’, a spoof about the organising committee of the London Olympics, where she plays the chief exec’s lovelorn secretary. She hardly has any lines and she’s hilarious, just twitching her mouth and staring. She also did a great turn as Margaret Thatcher’s daughter in the recent film ‘The Iron Lady’, with Meryl Streep. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/110 "2013-09-17T23:31:13Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > I particularly loved her in ‘2012’, a spoof about the organising committee of the London Olympics, where she plays the chief exec’s lovelorn secretary. She hardly has any lines and she’s hilarious, just twitching her mouth and staring. Ahh, _that’s_ what I knew her from! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/111 "2013-09-18T18:51:35Z")
My DVR (DirecTV) recorded episode 6 at 4:00 this morning. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/112 "2013-09-18T19:05:33Z")
Was it actually broadcast then or was it some XFiles-like event? ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/113 "2013-09-18T19:51:31Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > My DVR (DirecTV) recorded episode 6 at 4:00 this morning. Mine shows ep 6 scheduled for 2:30 this morning. Haven’t checked to see if it actually recorded yet, but at least tonight’s ep description was changed to indicate it’s ep 7. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/114 "2013-09-18T20:54:24Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > My DVR (DirecTV) recorded episode 6 at 4:00 this morning. Right. As I said earlier: > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > If anyone still hasn’t seen episode six, it’s scheduled to be rebroadcast on BBC America on Wednesday at 5am Eastern Time, with episode seven scheduled for 10pm Eastern Time. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/115 "2013-09-18T21:12:47Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Right. As I said earlier: I know. I was just dropping the other shoe. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/116 "2013-09-18T22:44:57Z")
> [@araminty](#): > > That’s Olivia Colman, who has mostly been known for comedic roles before now - well, known by me, that is. She’s has a major role in **Peep Show** , with her Cambridge mates David Mitchell and Rob Webb; she also has bit parts in their sketch comedy show, **That Mitchell and Webb Look**. Lovely, smart comedy. I was first aware of her in the second series of _Look Around You_. (I adore that show, in both its formats. Olivia will always be Pam to me!) But, yeah: she’s got both dramatic and comedic acting chops. (Which, in a way, affects the resolution of _Broadchurch_: you know that whoever killed Danny is likely to be someone who is close to Ellie. So, either her husband or her son. Probably. Because that’s what would be most devastating.) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/117 "2013-09-18T23:34:47Z")
Something is definitely wrong. I had my DirecTV DVR set to record all new episodes. I just double-checked my to-do list, and it didn’t have anything set to record - had to set it manually. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/118 "2013-09-19T03:37:33Z")
I don’t ever want to watch a show again that takes eight hours to solve one crime. Exhausting. For hours would have been plenty. Did we really have to wait this long to get Susan’s back story? When Miller said to her, “How could it be going on in your own house and you not know?” big flashbulbs and sirens went off in my head. Getting very tired of seeing Alec staggering around being cranky and looking like yesterday’s fish. Okay, he did a generous (if misguided) thing on the other case. Fine. Whatever. Counting the moments to the last episode. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/119 "2013-09-19T03:54:39Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I don’t ever want to watch a show again that takes eight hours to solve one crime. Exhausting. For hours would have been plenty. Oh, come now - if it was an American show it would be 8 _seasons_ :D. Having seen the whole thing, I think it was reasonably well paced as a character study ( the primary character being the community ). ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586/120 "2013-09-19T03:55:49Z")
Mine recorded fine tonight, and I’m still loving it. The crime itself is almost a MacGuffin–you need it to set everything into motion and start people’s lives unraveling, but that’s really what the show’s about, rather than whodunnit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadchurch-tonight-08-07-13-bbc-america/665586.md?page=7)