Simonschama

This was memorable in its first season complementing another masterpiece from Germany - Babylon Berlin. But watching the third season, get the feeling that it is no more meant for the regular viewer. It has become to convoluted,too complex and too smart for its own good.Unless you are a 'Dark' nerd ,pretty hard to follow the plot. Secondly the reason the first season was good was it focussed on the characters and their decisions.Now it seems, the story is like a comic book - nothing really matters because everything can change and go back to whatever with the time machine and it does every hour. Baffled by the writing and the lack of understanding. Watch Inception chaps - the movie was good because you cared for the characters and their eventual fate, however cunning the plot.

Firstly, Ricky was the star and without him it would've been so boring. He was right over 3 hours with adverts is so long! But the opening monologue by Ricky was one of the sharpest and the best for years. He was able to capture the sentiment of people watching the program and kudos to Ricky for that. Almost all of his lines were quotable and were repeated in the offices the next day! Bring him back on again!! Some of the winners of the awards were surprising and could've done without the speeches by some of them - Patricia Arquette,Michelle,etc. All in all a higher rating only for the one and only Ricky Gervais!