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I am horribly addicted to TV, sitcoms being no exception. The good (Frasier), bad (Two and a half Men) and the fashionable (30 Rock). Current faves include Father Ted (old one, I know), The Big Bang Theory (idiot science but I find it hysterically funny), the british run of The IT Crowd and the depressingly bad Samantha Who.
Currently watching british crime show "Cracker", from the 80s, with Robbie Coltrane in the lead role. Amazing stuff. Can't wait for the next season of Dr. Who to air. Will take till 2010. Damn.
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If you like "Cracker," luv, you should look for a series of crime shows called "Second Sight" with Clive Owen. And have you, per chance, checked out the Helen Mirren series, "Prime Suspect?" It's a dark, gritty show featuring sharp dialogue and a brilliant acting. I definitely recommend it. ~Titania
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We're just two thirds of the way though a trio of BBC dramatisations of Kurt Wallander mysteries by Swedish author Henning Mankell. Starring Kenneth Branagh as the troubled copper, they follow a familiar basic scenario (troubled copper etc), but do also allow time for the stories to develop using a 90-minute format. I certainly hope that they make more. As to sitcoms, I love DinnerLadies, which was written by and starred Victoria Wood (one of our 'national treasures') and Golden Girls. I've got into Frasier and MASH quite a lot in the last few years and have just (seriously) 'discovered' Sex and the City so that I can do girlie nights in. |
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And Frasier may be among my favorite shows ever.
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I remember "Second Sight" Titania. Also thefirst series of Murder One, which was great telly. The Wallander/Branagh, plus the original broadcast the night before is waiting to be watched, goodness knows when though. See also, "the state within" "state of play" and "five days" the latter ifonly for Janet McTeer's performance, but all recommended
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state of play was great!
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"Outnumbered" has become a modest cult comedy, because it involves a slightly disfunctional family but one where, quite shockingly in this day and age, there is a mum, a dad and three kids. Plus the grandad with incipient Alzheimer's. And the story develops; it's a kind of serial.
So I was rather put out tonight when I missed half of the programme because the far more fundamentalist "Strictly Come Dancing" meant that the BBC could mess around with the programming schedules to pander to the populists. Britain is getting like bread & circuses Rome - except that it is bread & Saint Vitus Dance in the wake of the disastrous Recession. Ballroom dancing was shunned and mocked for decades by all but the elderly. Now it so star-studded, that Britain seems hysterically obsessed with it, and with Bruce Forsyth, a pleasant compère, now 80, who is associated with dancing and glam. The BBC is growing decadent. Thank goodness there are still beacons of sanity, such as "Outnumbered". So please carry on cancelling poetry readings, so that people can learn the art of sitting in a chair and reading it themselves, at home. One of the great elements of progress in the 19th and 20th centuries was getting people to read silently to themselves, instead of spelling out texts aloud, word by word. Less dancing, more reading. And bring back sitcoms, all is forgiven. |
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