english shows have a way lower average quality
than american
ones,
rofl
indeed one of the funniest things i've reag here in ages........................
[#63333]
Written by: petrat [21/10/2007, 03:54]
Quote by sithomer
i find british tv very depressing..
this show is no exception
... and then you wonder why everybody else in the world hates you and wants to
drive planes into your skyscrapers.
i'm with top gear on this one; america - nice enough country as it goes but it
needs an effing population transplant.
[#63336]
Written by: nowun [21/10/2007, 04:34]
Quote by petrat
Quote by sithomer
i find british tv very depressing..
this show is no exception
... and then you wonder why everybody else in the world hates you and wants to
drive planes into your skyscrapers.
i'm with top gear on this one; america - nice enough country as it goes but it
needs an effing population transplant.
thier president and more than a few of thier citizens need brain transplants as
well.
[#63340]
Written by: denisdenis [21/10/2007, 05:31]
...and at least when the british make a tv series they let it run to
completion without having to kow-tow to the advertising industry...
[#63341]
Written by: wolfmanoz [21/10/2007, 05:39]
haha the pommy version of britney as a slut !! art imitates life !
well she's believable up to a point, just you only see a little bit of boobage
in one ep & in the rest of them she's shagging in her undies ( so that's how
her johns end up with a nasty rash!!).
woulda been good if she'd nuded up a bit more, but it's well worth a look.
[#63342]
Written by: dixyland [21/10/2007, 05:47]
Quote by weaselbuddha
also some of
the all time greats prisoner, cracker, prime suspect, singing detective are all
brit productions.
so it goes....
as an aussie, i'm pretty damn sure that prisoner (aka cell block h) is as
english as i am. it's aussie through and through, but was shown in pommyland for
a lot of years.
[#63344]
Written by: groof [21/10/2007, 06:17]
Quote by dixyland
Quote by weaselbuddha
also some of
the all time greats prisoner, cracker, prime suspect, singing detective are all
brit productions.
so it goes....
as an aussie, i'm pretty damn sure that prisoner (aka cell block h) is as
english as i am. it's aussie through and through, but was shown in pommyland for
a lot of years.
yeah - i am aussie and prisoner was definitely an aussie cult classic.
whilst here in oz our stations are indidated with american shows, the real
standouts (especially for drama and crime) are the british ones. life on mars is
one of my favourites in the last few years, and the prime suspect is one of the
most fantastic pieces of television to be ever made.
[#63345]
Written by: ottawablk [21/10/2007, 06:17]
it's my new favorite show... and thats just the first 5 minutes... and no i'm
not proud of myself
[#63346]
Written by: taipan [21/10/2007, 06:22]
Quote by leonskennedy
makes you wonder just why british tv is so cheap and low
budget and has really bad acting with low amateurish production values when they
are raking in all those billions in the tv license lol
where are they spending all that free money???? its not on tv shows-except for
the excellent occasional nature documentary.
if you believe recent news reports, they're giving it straight to jonathan ross
& selling off bbc tv centre to cover the deficit (plus reducing future
natural-history & news productions).
personally, i think they spend most of it persecuting people who don't pay the
license fee for perfectly legitimate reasons - it's unthinkable that anyone
doesn't have a tv, so if they're not paying the fee, they must be criminals!
back on-topic, this show ain't too bad. i like the lead character's attitudes to
life & her profession (watch the show before you criticise that observation).
one thing that pissed me off was this; if they're gonna make a 30-minute show
that loses 5-10 minutes to credits & commercials, i'd prefer it if they didn't
throw away an additional 5-10 minutes on the london landscape (with musical
accompaniment) - maybe script-writers cost too much these days...
[#63357]
Written by: Imperor [21/10/2007, 08:06]
Quote by tussius
english shows have a way lower average quality than american
ones
i'd say that's definately not the case, it's just that the yanks make such a
load of shows that they'll have to manage to nail a pretty fair number of good ones!
it's all in the numbers!
[#63363]
Written by: rexxriot [21/10/2007, 09:08]
Quote by groof
Quote by dixyland
Quote by weaselbuddha
also some of
the all time greats prisoner, cracker, prime suspect, singing detective are all
brit productions.
so it goes....
as an aussie, i'm pretty damn sure that prisoner (aka cell block h) is as
english as i am. it's aussie through and through, but was shown in pommyland for
a lot of years.
yeah - i am aussie and prisoner was definitely an aussie cult classic.
whilst here in oz our stations are indidated with american shows, the real
standouts (especially for drama and crime) are the british ones. life on mars is
one of my favourites in the last few years, and the prime suspect is one of the
most fantastic pieces of television to be ever made.
the prisoner starring patrick mcgoohan was british.
[#63369]
Written by: Teh Zoid [21/10/2007, 10:06]
Quote by mikel
the show's okay. i'll probably check out a few more episodes. it
has an odd
sense of story. she's not really confessing much and the characters (the johns?)
aren't exactly developed. i do have to give it to the brit's for their great
choice in music though. i think i heard some jay dee in there.
being in the states i am curious what sort of network this airs on? i mean
there's some slight, or minor, nudity, and there's the cussing and subject
matter, but it also looks like there are commercials. so i gather the network
isn't quite hbo or showtime, but more like a slightly more freespirit fx network?
or are the british not as hung up on sex and cussing as we are in the states so
this subject matter is okay on basic cable?
it's on itv2, one of the free digital channels in the uk. and not being a brit
myself, i'd say that the brits are being in some ways even more uptight sexually
than americans. teh good ole us has this strange duality regarding sex where
it's both very conservative (think iran here... ;-)) and home to the worlds
biggest porn industry and where sex is everywhere in commercials, ads and
whatnot. this is the most sexually explicit british tv show i've ever seen. i
don't think there's many others like it. i'd compare this with the new wave of
sexually explicit shows on showtime, like weeds and californication.
it would be interesting to hear from a brit on this subject...
[#63378]
Written by: ceejay [21/10/2007, 11:51]
some of you usa guys are so fare up your own ars its unreal.
most of your shows get canceled half way through because nobody watches them,
example "flash gordon" dross,wont go a second season even if it finishes the first.
back to the topic billie piper is great,the show is great.
[#63382]
Written by: joeymac [21/10/2007, 12:50]
Quote by teh zoid
it's on itv2, one of the free digital channels in the uk. and not being a brit
myself, i'd say that the brits are being in some ways even more uptight sexually
than americans. teh good ole us has this strange duality regarding sex where
it's both very conservative (think iran here... ;-)) and home to the worlds
biggest porn industry and where sex is everywhere in commercials, ads and
whatnot. this is the most sexually explicit british tv show i've ever seen. i
don't think there's many others like it. i'd compare this with the new wave of
sexually explicit shows on showtime, like weeds and californication.
it would be interesting to hear from a brit on this subject...
it's not the most sexually explicit show by a long way. in the 1980's a bbc
drama the singing detective had a sex scene that was just as explicit as this
show. then there is queer as folk... lesbo costume drama tipping the velvet..
footballers wives is just softcore porn.
putting the drama aside, there are many tv shows on free over-the-air tv which
have shown actual sex, erect penis's.. hell "channel 5"'s first few years was
just constant soft porn. "eurotrash" pretty much had naked germans running
around and playing with each other for ten years.
we've had live, real, autopsy's on tv... which was surprisingly good tv. very
educational.
there isn't really a "rule change" here like there is between pay and free tv in
the us. the only real rule change is when you get to subscription porn channels.
there was a breakfast show in the 90's.. called "the big breakfast" and they had
a good few nipple slips in it's long run. it's generally laughed off.
it's not unusual for chat shows, the equivalent of leno or letterman, to have
swearing and boobs etc. i remember some fans of motley crue flashing their tits
on "friday night with jonathan ross" a few years back.. and he regularly calls
his guests cunts and tells them to fuck off.
it's funny because half of the american guests on chat shows realise they can
swear on uk tv and then say fuck and giggle to themselves.
[#63388]
Written by: Teh Zoid [21/10/2007, 13:40]
hmmm, seems like i need to brush up on my knowledge of british tv-shows i
forgot queer as folk and the singing detective which both was on tv here in
sweden... and i was (perhaps erroneously) under the impression that the sexual
explicitness had taken giant leaps forward during the last few years (mainly in
the american cable channels). but maybe it isn't so?
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