billytea ... The ABC is showing the original version on Thursday nights but I've only seen a couple of episodes. I never got really into it b/c it reminded me of Cold Feet -- which I did not like at all -- and so I've never given it a proper chance. No doubt some commercial station will get the US version but it remains to be seen if it gets a primetime slot or not, since those morons at 7 screened Titus at 5AM and now have Normal, Ohio on at that time.
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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evil jimi - Feb 10, 2003 8:58:27 pm PST #1859 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
billytea - Feb 10, 2003 9:02:00 pm PST #1860 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
billytea ... The ABC is showing the original version on Thursday nights but I've only seen a couple of episodes. I never got really into it b/c it reminded me of Cold Feet -- which I did not like at all -- and so I've never given it a proper chance.
Excellent. It is a bit like Cold Feet, though not as schmoopy. (But then, I liked Cold Feet.) Anyway, I can now back up my "You must see this" with an actual date and time. Thanks.
evil jimi - Feb 10, 2003 9:13:07 pm PST #1861 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I'll give Coupling another chance. It was up against Scrubs but now 7 have moved that show to Sunday night and replaced it with Joe Millionairheads.
billytea - Feb 10, 2003 9:16:11 pm PST #1862 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'll give Coupling another chance. It was up against Scrubs but now 7 have moved that show to Sunday night and replaced it with Joe Millionairheads.
I swear, that show's like Drano to the matted hairballs of quality television.
Yes, I know it should be the other way around. All analogies break down sooner or later, and I'm on a schedule here.
billytea - Feb 10, 2003 9:17:55 pm PST #1863 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
(PS: re Coupling, I recommend especially "The Cupboard of Patrick's Love" - the final in S1 - and "Naked" - penultimate in S2. Not that there's anything wrong with the others.)
amyparker - Feb 10, 2003 9:19:44 pm PST #1864 of 9843
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
"You taped over me - with The Wicker Man?!?"
Hee. I love that show.
§ ita § - Feb 10, 2003 9:21:36 pm PST #1865 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A problem I was told, with the principle of the American remake of Coupling is that so much is so much more precise in British humour. There's a very specific knowledge (whether one chooses to live it or not) of what is done in specific situations, which makes a comedy of manners so much less watch-from-the-hall, but more precise and delightful.
No, I have no idea how they're getting around it, but I hope it rocks, because Patrick is being played by a dear friend.
Last I heard, there was a pilot reshoot in the works.
plasmo - Feb 11, 2003 2:29:44 am PST #1866 of 9843
{[-_-]}
Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
Also, Waiting For G-d. (Or, what I expect being old will be like.)
Oh, the ultimate cringeworthy comedy at the moment is this British show The Office. I hear it's huge over there, but it's only on cable here atm so not so popular yet. It's running on ABC from the beginning soon though. Anyone else like this?
Fay - Feb 11, 2003 2:38:04 am PST #1867 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
The little clips I've seen so far are so excruciatingly close to the bone that I physically cannot watch it. Ricky Gervaise seems to have nailed office life. Alan Partridge I can watch, and laugh at, albeit clench-buttocked. The Royle Family likewise. But The Office just reminds me too much of places I have temped.
Jim - Feb 11, 2003 3:24:56 am PST #1868 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
The Office is probably the first situation tragedy. It's brilliant, but at points unwatchable - not because it's cruel, but because it's so incredibly accurate.