Current Favourites - On TV, Netflix and YouTube

I haven't done a 'Favourites' blog post for a long time, so I thought that I'd do one. This post is mainly concerned with favourite TV shows we've been watching lately, in case anyone out there is looking for something interesting to watch. We don't watch a lot of TV, maybe an hour or two per night, but when we do, we like to watch things that are well made and interesting.

For the past few weeks, we've been watching Newsreader, a series on iplayer about a TV News Station in Australia.  This was a really good series, set in the 1980's, and was both interesting and entertaining. It was only 6 episodes long, but was really well made and a good watch.

Another good watch on iPlayer recently, was a 4 part documentary on The Rolling Stones. Each episode took a different band member as it's subject and it was a really good series to watch, whether you're a Rolling Stones fan or not.

The other week, I watched the movie Empire of the Sun on TV. Despite it being a Stephen Spielberg movie that came out in the 1980's, I'd never actually watched it and it was great. I loved watching a very young Christian Bale in this movie.

Last week, after looking for something new to watch on an evening, we've decided to watch Better Call Saul on Netflix.  This series is pretty old, and we did start to watch it several years ago after finishing Breaking Bad on Netflix. At the time, however, it was too much of the same kind of genre and we didn't stick with it. Hopefully, this time around, we'll give it a chance and as there's 6 seasons available, it should keep us entertained through the autumn/winter, unless we get bored with it, that is.

I've also recently started watching All That Glitters on BBC1. It's a new show about professional jewellery makers, in a similar format to the Great British Bake off and Great British Sewing Bee. Being a jewellery lover, I am finding it really interesting to see the bestseller and bespoke pieces that they make on the show and the techniques that they use to do so. They don't seem to have much time to produce the pieces, but some of them are exquisite.

On YouTube, I've found a few interesting new channels to follow recently:

NHK WORLD-JAPAN, is a fascinating channel whose videos are partly or wholly funded by the Japanese Government. I don't know if this makes it propaganda or not, but it posts some very interesting videos about life in Japan and about Zero Waste living. A fascinating culture and a place I would love to visit.

Another interesting channel I've found recently, is called Green Renaissance.  This channel produces some beautiful videos about living a simple life and is truly very inspiring. 

I've also been loving The Unexpected Gypsy channel in recent weeks. Wendy is an artist who produces beautiful work and likes to art journal. She vlogs about her art journalling, her painting, her art studio and her life on this channel. She is a lovely positive soul and I like to see her beautiful work.

I hope you find something here that interests you and if you have any suggestions of your own, I'd be happy to hear about them.