Tried watching this show last night on BBCA, but it was completely dark (in the colour sense, not the humour sense). So much so, we could not bear to watch it. It was like the whole thing was shot in the dark (even the exteriors). Every other channel seemed fine. Maybe some strange non-HiDef show on a HiDef TV thing, but we just gave up. Anyone else have this problem?
One thing I did find funny were the "fancy houses" -- what passes for a fancy house in England is a large, but fantastically ugly, mock Tudor/redbrick thing. English McMansions I suppose, but, yuck.
Funny - I attempted to watch it last night (never watch TV but family are away and I have a bit of spare time) and found it to be depressingly dark. Turned over after about five minutes and watched the far brighter History Channel and the story about the Afghan gold.
Only dark bits there were the Taliban and what they did to Najibullah!
I watched the Simpsons and Father Ted instead.
/yay tivo
It has been showing here since early this year, along with bad girls, coronation street on cbc, little britain, inspector morse, last of the summer wines, and all that, on TV ontario ( a local station)
Thank goodness, it's not just me then!
I did find the thing to be dark, but I DVR'd it and was watching this afternoon while t'little'un was at Brownie Camp but had to switch off as we had a thunderstorm. sad
Will catch up with it tomorrow.
Debs x smile
(My mum loves it BTW!!)
It's hilariously tacky, almost beyond belief and you should be able to spot 'bits' of most premiership footballers or their wives in some of the characters......it gets more far fetched the more it goes on.....classic grin
Des Lynam showed up in the episode I saw over the weekend shock
I can't stand the paparazzi culture of professional sportsmen and movie stars and whatnot, so I avoided this one like the plague.
Watched the final episode of the Little Britain re-run instead.
Lower league players are far more down to earth and approachable in my opinion. I was chatting with a former Argyle star a couple of years ago in the sponsors' lounge and he seemed quite chuffed to talk about Portland, Seattle and Vancouver as he has a mate playing for Portland Timbers.
Obviously, I've met and chatted with a fair few Argyle players over the years but when I lived in Bracknell, I used to see Adrian Williams (Welsh international) & Shaka (Neil!) Hislop out and about. They were playing for Reading at the time but most people wouldn't have know them from Adam I suppose.