Thursday 28 January 2021

5 TV Shows I Loved In January 2021


5 TV Shows I Loved In January 2021


I don't know about you, but I think it feels like it's the 468th of January today, it's cold and miserable outside, our boiler is on its last legs and considering its lockdown and I'm shielding, things are pretty pants right now. To be honest, it's pretty pants for the vast majority of us, isn't it? So I thought I'd share some TV shows I've been watching this month that I have enjoyed, and I thought if you're losing the will during the lockdown, you might enjoy them too and it might pass a little time for you. 

There are 5 shows in total, but you knew that already from the title didn't you? There's no order, I'm just going to share the shows with you, give you an overview, and tell you why I'm enjoying them, no spoilers I promise, and you might find something new to watch too, and since we're all indoors right now what better way to spend the time than finding something new to watch on TV. 


1. Married At First Sight Australia 


My 5 Current Favourite TV Shows - January 2021


This is one of those programmes that my girls love and I end up watching and getting hooked on too, at first I didn't think I'd like it and it was background noise whilst they watched it, but now I can't wait to watch the next episode when one has finished, I am well and truly hooked. 

What's It About? 

Married at First Sight follows Australian couples in a ground-breaking experiment as they meet for the first time at their wedding. We first see the couples as singles before they marry and they are together in a group of brides and grooms, we find out a little bit about them all and how long they have been single, past relationships etc. We watch them telling their friends and families they are getting married and how, and we see them shopping for their wedding attire, then it's their wedding day where they meet for the first time. 

We see their wedding and reception, how their families and friends react and what they think of the chosen spouse, we then follow them on the honeymoon, meet the in-laws and set up home, all the while getting to know one another more deeply.

Each week the couples meet for a dinner party together and then a commitment ceremony where they speak about their relationship with the experts and the other couples and decide if to stay or leave, but there's a twist in their choice. I have laughed, been shocked, appalled, and cringed so much during most episodes, but it's gripping and we're always left on a cliff hanger. 

If you enjoy reality TV shows and you watched Love Is Blind last year and liked it, I think you'll like this too, it's definitely worth a try, even if you don't think it's for you, it's an eye-opener if nothing else. 

We're around halfway through the latest series, but there are other series available on catchup, on demand etc if you want to catch up, and if you fancy a watch, it's on E4 weeknights at 7.30pm. 


2. Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly


My 5 Current Favourite TV Shows - January 2021


What's It About?

Graeme Hall who is also known as The Dogfather has over 10 years experience with training dogs and has built his reputation on finding quick but long lasting fixes to almost any dog behaviour problem. The programme shows Graeme travelling all over the UK to help dog owners with their unruly pooches, we love dogs and have a dog of our own and we love watching animal TV shows so we really like this one. 

Graeme usually helps two families and their dogs, who have all sorts of different issues, from aggression to staring at themselves in a mirror, yes you read that right! It's interesting to see just how quickly the dogs respond to Graeme's training and nice to see the often fraught owners breathe a sigh of relief too. It's a nice, sometimes funny and sometimes emotional, easy watch that we find interesting and if you have a dog or just like animals and programmes about them, then I think you'll definitely enjoy this one. It is on Channel 5 on a Tuesday night at 8pm with previous episodes available on My5.


3. The Masked Singer


My 5 Current Favourite TV Shows - January 2021


When the first series of The Masked Singer was advertised, both my partner and I really weren't interested in watching it, but our daughters were, we were surprised as our eldest is autistic and hates people dressed up, but she said because they were going to be unmasked she thought she'd be ok and it was something she wanted to watch so she hoped that she'd be ok. 

Surprisingly, both my partner and I both enjoyed the show and we both soon joined in with the girls, guessing and we really enjoyed it. We're on season 2 now and we both look forward to it each week, our daughter is ok with most of the costumes, and the ones she isn't she just listens instead of watching and it's become a Saturday night family favourite in our house. 

What's It About?

Each week different characters battle it out in the singing stakes to see who can win what is basically a singing competition but with a twist, we can't see who is singing. The judging panel, Jonathan Ross, Rita Ora, Davina McCall and Mo Gilligan all try to guess who is behind the mask (costume with removable head/mask) whilst hearing and seeing some clues before they sing and then based on their singing voice. The costumes look fantastic, they must have had a lot of work put into making them.

This is the second series and some of the characters are Bush Baby, Blob, Harlequin, Robin and Dragon with a few more too, they all look great and have good singing voices too. Some I think are quite obvious, and then some we have no idea, we watch it as a family and we all try and guess, so far we have got two right and I had guessed one a week or so ago, and we think we know some more characters too, I won't go into that though as I don't want to spoil it for you if you haven't seen it yet. 

It's easy watching, a bit cheesy, can be funny watching the judges come out with ridiculous suggestions such as Kate Middleton, I'm pretty sure she has better things to do on a Saturday night, even during lockdown! But we all enjoy it and it's nice to see a family show on TV again and on a Saturday night, there doesn't seem to have been anything like that for a while now. 

Even if you don't think it's for you, give it a go, you might be like me and my partner and like it when you didn't think you would, you can watch it on a Saturday night on ITV at 7pm.


4. 999 What's Your Emergency?

My 5 Current Favourite TV Shows - January 2021

What's It About?

It's an inside look at the lives of the emergency services first responders in the UK, cameras follow police, fire and ambulance teams on the front line around the clock whilst they answer emergency calls, providing an insight into their jobs on a daily basis. 

Before my health declined, I was a nurse and I absolutely loved my job, and I miss it every day, I think that's maybe why I like watching these documentary type programmes, I can feel close to the career that I miss so much.  I also like Ambulance, 24 Hours in A&E and Critical Condition, so there's a definite correlation going on there. 

I watch this with my youngest daughter, she has the same taste as me when it comes to the TV, she likes documentaries too and also likes the same programmes as I do, we also like prison life documentaries and crime documentaries so we watch this together.

If you enjoy documentaries, you might enjoy this, especially if you have a career in the front line emergency services, it can be sad and quite shocking, but it can, for the most part, be nice to see people when things are a lot better for them and they're feeling much happier. If you fancy it, you can catch it on channel 4 on Mondays at 9pm.


5. Finding Alice


My 5 Current Favourite TV Shows - January 2021


What's It About?

Alice, her partner of 20 years, Harry and their daughter Charlotte aged 16 are moving into a fabulous "smart" house that Harry has recently built, it's been his dream to build it and he is extremely proud and excited to move in and show them the house he has built for them all. 

The night they move in, tragedy strikes and Harry falls down the stairs to his death, in the days and weeks following Alice finds out that her late partner and other family members have secrets, and clearly didn't deal with things too well. 

I won't divulge anything because I don't want to spoil it, but we have really enjoyed watching it, so much so, we were going to watch it weekly, but we ended up binge watching it because we enjoyed it so much. It is really good, Alice is hilarious and will definitely make you laugh, and there are sad times too, but it is good. 

I think there will definitely be a second series with how they have left the first one. If you want to watch, it is on Sunday nights at 9pm on ITV or if you're like us, you can binge watch on the ITV Hub. 

So those the 5 TV shows that I have been enjoying throughout January, I hope I have given you an idea or ideas of something new to watch, please let me know if you do give any of them a watch.


Do you watch any of my 5 current favourites? If so which ones, and what are your thoughts? I'd love to know.
My 5 Current Favourite TV Shows - January 2021


 

































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Sunday 10 January 2021

Happy New Year

 

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Happy New Year!


This is my first post of 2021, and I just wanted to say, a big Happy New Year to you and I hope you have had a nice Christmas too if you celebrate it. I hope the pandemic didn't impact things too much. 

I decided that although it's a new year, I'm not going to choose any resolutions, I haven't done for many years now. I do like to have goals but I haven't given it much thought as yet, I'm going to jot some down and see how I go, would you be interested in seeing what I decide on, goals for 2021 post maybe? 

What's Coming in 2021?

• If you saw my Long Time No See blog post back in November, I mentioned that blogging is my way of escaping real life, I have quite a few a lot of health problems and my blog is somewhere I can be Zoë, just chatting away with you all and I can pretend, just for a short time that I don't have so much going on in my life.  

• In 2021 I'm going to be taking things back to old school blogging, I'm going to go back over some of my older posts and see what people enjoyed reading and I enjoyed writing and maybe take things back a little and see where it takes me. 

• Our house needs a lot of work, as in cosmetic work, we've had to have so much "construction work" I suppose you could call it, done that the cosmetic things had to wait. It gets me down, to be honest with you and I can't wait to start on it. We have been saving for years now and we thought we'd found the perfect company for our bedroom but unfortunately, it wasn't as perfect as we originally thought. I am going to have the full story of this in an IGTV at some point soon so keep an eye out if you're interested. But my point albeit long winded, about the house is that I am going to create some mood boards and wish lists to share with you the kind of thing we're hoping for, I am also open to your ideas and knowing how you have done things in your homes, I basically am stuck and have no idea where to start! 

• Fashion and beauty posts and reviews will be featuring in 2021, as will wishlists and hauls. 

• Mental health, especially Eating Disorders is something very close to my heart, so there will be posts on topics that centre around that. I don't go into my health issues too much because, as I said, this is my escapism so to sit chatting about it wouldn't be and I don't want to bore you all, but you may see some things that touch on it from time to time. 

• I have some beauty bits I picked up over the last few months and haven't used as yet, so I'm going to share those in a haul and then once I've used things I will let you know how I'm finding them. 

• I have beauty, fashion, lifestyle bits I kindly received for Christmas to share with you too, and I won an incredible Omorovicza skincare set on the lovely Beautylymin blog just before Christmas that I can't wait to share my thoughts with you about. 

• I will have family content, content featuring our gorgeous fur baby, who you might not have met yet, and lots of other things too. I don't want to sit here and rhyme it all off her cause a, it'll be boring as hell for you to read, and b, you don't want/need to know everything I have in mind for 2021 do you? 

But if beauty, life, reviews, wishlists/mood boards, home decor, family, furbabies, fashion, plus a whole lot more floats your boat, then I'd love you to stick around, and if you're new here and don't already, you can follow my blog via Bloglovin here, I also share my latest blog posts across my socials too, if you would like to follow me on those, you can find them here:

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I think that's enough waffling for one day, don't you? Did I mention I'm a chatterbox? 



I'd love you to join me for the ride, after all, Boris does keep saying "we're all in this together". 
Thank you for reading, I'll chat with you soon.... 
Zoë


 


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