Telly thread

And removed rollover relief entirely

I only know about the family farm and small iht planner

It is far worse for the family farm and tax neutral (but more attractive relatively) for the small iht planner.

Some of what they have done is good around IHT. I think bringing pensions into IHT is good.

What will happen is that people who can afford to will put all farmland into trusts with unlimited apr until April. Then just take the 10 year tax hit each decade

Russians..

I hope they love their children too.

Started watching Shogun. I listened to the audiobook last year and they seem to have rattled through the first half of the book inside the opening 30 minutes of this 10-11 episode long season. It's a bit jarring.

Everyone told me the show was great, I lost interest after a few episodes.

The Shogun book is fantastic but the show has the most annoying lead character ever in Cosmo Jarvis. They also changed the timeline and story from the book and i never finished the series.

On the other hand. Alien: Earth is fucking ace. Expensive, visually stunning, interesting story, scary as hell (as tv shows go). Really really good. Can it sustain the tempo? Not sure but so far the first three episodes superb. The films have been pants. This has taken everything to a new level. My new favourite show.

Chicago: Xenomorph.

Update: midway through season 6. I just watched one of the most devastating episodes of television I've ever seen. This show has aged so well.

Really annoying that my "basic bitch" netflix tier doesn't let me watch Always Sunny and I've had to upgrade for a month to watch the new series. Which, annoying crossover episode aside, feels like something of a return to the early series.

Only watched a few so far but the hot peppers episode was a standout.

We've started watching Brassic recently on Netflix, which is good fun

Most if it gets worse as it goes on expect for the farmer.

Only thing I didn't like about that one was the way they used The Lawyer.

That actor (Brian Unger) tried to chat up my ex at a book release party for Jon Stewart (he’d just got the Daily Show job, where Unger was a “reporter”).
The other notable part of that night - other than a fun chat with Frank DeCaro, also of TDS - was when Harvey Weinstein showed up. In what, at least to my eyes, was a really cheap-looking suit. Only saw him briefly as he made an entrance where he was simultaneously trying not to be noticed but making sure everyone noticed him. That he was outed as a wrong-un has to be one of the least surprising events of the 21st century.