Television Best and worst of Television!

[The Artist.....]

Andyoak ... Seconded

Number 9

Did you see the twist coming last week?... I'd seen the first twist coming, but the second one was genius!! - Let's out Fight Club Fight Club

 

[Blog Zbod]

Not sure where this would fit best, but I didn't think it deserved a new thread, so this seemed the best of the options.

It's the second bloody British Invasion. There are at least five US television shows starring a Brit playing an American, as well as a sixth starring a Brit who is supposed to be a Soviet Russian impersonating an American. And a recent highly-touted US WWII docu-drama starred a Brit as a US Army officer (same actor as plays the US Marine who might be a terrorist in the "Homeland" telly series, Damian Lewis). I'm surprised this has not inspired Mel Gibson to ride a horse through Burbank, shouting, "The Redcoats are coming!"

Most British TV series that are "translated" into American lose something along the way, but I have to say "Shameless" is an exception to that rule. I didn't last the first series of Channel Four's version but I rarely miss an episode of the US show. The basic details are similar to the UK version but overall I find it a far more sophisticated show.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Shameless isn't supposed to be sophisticated...

 

[Blog Zbod]

Character development is rather cartoonish in the Ch4 version, rather like "The Simpsons" with real people. The US version's characters are much more 3-dimensional.

 

[mjo]

Gogglebox is a great TV show.

 

[Jen]

Character development is rather cartoonish in the Ch4 version, rather like "The Simpsons" with real people. The US version's characters are much more 3-dimensional.

In which case, they have the show completely wrong!

 

[Andyoak]

The Trip to Italy... Coogan and Brydon's sequel to The Trip had me choking on pizza. Worth catching up on iPlayer.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I'll bet that if I made two columns one head the the best of TV and the other head the worst then the worst would be 50 times longer than the best..

I was walking past a news stand the other day and one of the papers had the headline.

BRUCE QUITS STRICTLY.

What kind of a world do we live in when THAT CRAP is headline news????

 

[FB]

Flicking through the sports channels on my Sky box I've come across The Lingerie Football League - American and Canadian women paying American Football in their underwear. How bizarre.

 

[cider_and_toast]

What channel is that on? Purely so I can avoid watching such a shameful display of course

 

[FB]

419 - Extreme Sports

 

[Jen]

Glad to see that Sky has some standards!

 

[Titch]

What standards are those then? Bad ones?

 

[Jen]

Standards - a mark of the brand perhaps. Good or bad depends on one's point of view

 

[Mephistopheles]

Flicking through the sports channels on my Sky box I've come across The Lingerie Football League - American and Canadian women paying American Football in their underwear. How bizarre.

Well I for one certainly won't be watching that, thank you very much...

 

[cider_and_toast]

liar liar pants on fire !!!

 

[Mephistopheles]

And I didn't look it up on youtube either..

 

[Andyoak]

Class... Beats F1!

 

[FB]

Intruders, apart from John Sim's dodgy American accent a rather intriguing series.

 

[Bushi]

True Detective, excellent detective serie with some fantastic acting by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Very well written story with some great atmosphere.

Fargo, never seen the movie but the serie got me after the first episode. Some scene's might look harsh, but hey, those things happen in real life.