Best.Show.Ever. I bought the whole series on DVD. My dh loved it too and I'd always call Jonathan R.M. "King Hotness" and dh would just laugh. lol. Moon, I was hoping they'd go through the Kings and Queens after Henry died, but no such luck. Have you seen the movie "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" with Cate Blanchett? It's great, especially on a good TV when they attack the Spanish Armada. There are some great books on Henry's son, cousin (the 11 day Queen, a teenager who was beheaded when she didn't even want to rule!..., and his two sisters who became Queens also.

Well, I found Doc Martin on Youtube last night, flopped around a bit until I figured out how to watch the pieces of those episodes in order, now may try to find hulu. My education continues. And, instead of retiring at 10pm it was midnite, because I was watching the episodes. It is a great show, low key, but Cornwall reminds me of the Irish countryside as well. If anything, the Irish roads are even narrower, and all those huge tour buses frightened me. Plus, there were rock walls up to the edge of the pavement. I loved it. Where else can you feel like driving in a Grand Prix at 30 miles per hour? Uhhh, kilometres.......cannot wait to go back before I'm so old they won't rent me a car. Our house had just about no places to sit and relax, or do the nicer activities us retired folks enjoy. So we added a 10 x 12 deck. Then enclosed the 10 x 10 porch to make a Lexan-walled sunporch, to house my parrots and allow DH a place to read and watch the outdoors. Then we bumped out the back bedroom to have a walkin closet and a bathtub, because we'd already put in a really tiny 2nd bathroom in the space formerly occupied by 2 tiny closets. I figured we could do without the linen closet and coat closet if it gave us a second crapper and a walkin shower. The footprint of the house, what was under the old roofline, was only increased by the closet/tub bumpout, about 160 sq feet, so the real construction cost for changing the roofline was minimal. However, we did match the stucco exterior to what already existed. Marti, if you are thinking of pushing a bedroom out to the edge of the shallow front gallery porch, I'd begin studying the sunshine it gets there. Quite possibly you could turn that wall into a window seat area with storage on either side so that no change of roofline is required. That is the same way they do attic rooms with reduced headroom where the roofline slopes down. If you are not paying for roofline changes, why not think about doing the same to both of those front bedrooms? I would not want to make the "guest rooms" (the kids' old bedrooms) too cozy and spacious, if you do not want them moving back home. Our neighbors up north have the problem of a son approaching 40 who has never moved out, sleeps all day and works in his room all night designing computer games. This is very restrictive of the parents activities. I just could not do it for long.

Java and hhireno, in my area, Broadchurch is broadcast on BBC America, not PBS. If you have On Demand as part of your TV package, you can see if this season's episodes are on Demand. I looked here to find out how to watch it: http://www.bbcamerica.com/broadchurch/extras/where-to-watch-broadchurch/ Mairecate, not sure if I will watch Gracepoint...or at least I'll wait a bit since the story lines are similar-too many other shows I want to see first. I agree that some of the second season is a bit over the top but I like the twists and turns of the plot. Blfenton, I too prefer when the season used to run fall-spring, then summer reruns. I loved Madmen, but there is so much time between seasons that I can't remember what happened and then am lost when it starts up,again. I had a really difficult time understanding what was going on in its recent premier. I tried to go back and read previous episode summaries and still couldn't remember enough to follow the plot well.

This version of Poldark was much better than the original one which I watched some years ago - perhaps it's the brooding intensity of Aidan Turner. They are now filming season 2 and the BBC stated that Poldark might be the long running drama they're seeking as a replacement for Downton Abbey. There are 12 novels in Winston Graham's Cornwall series covering the years 1783 to 1820. No air date set yet but they hinted maybe spring 2016. Outlander is also filming and just switched locations. Ron Moore did a Q&A last week and said while he's not in charge of scheduling that we should anticipate late March or April 2016.