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I have a soft spot for when the protagonist is a dreamer and dreams of being “somebody,” so I loved the first two episodes of Funny Woman. Gemma Arterton is great and very charming. The editing is a little too fancy and ended up taking my attention away at some points.
Also watched Everyone Else Burns after orangestraw mentioned it here and liked. I didn’t really loooved it, but it was good enough for me to go one episode after another without even realizing it. Amy James-Kelly was my MVP. I hope the show gets a season 2.
ReplyCopy URLI’m really surprised by how much I loved Funny Woman seeing as Sky’s comedies aren’t usually for me. I was worried about Arterton being cast as the protagonist because I wasn’t sure whether she would bring the authenticity required in these type of Nick Hornby adaptations but it really was quite incredible how seamlessly she played and developed this character. I wasn’t familiar with the source material prior to watching the show but I honestly had to google afterwards whether it was inspired by a true story. The scenes in which they’re recording Jim and Barbara as well felt so believable in how they were just executed on every front (both technical and storywise) which a lot of these biographical and revisionist makings of shows have faltered in recent years.
Between this and Nolly it’s nice to see shows on television exploring the productions of genres of TV that don’t often really get explored in this streaming era of meta TV shows (at least in the UK).
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ReplyCopy URLNicola Coughlan and Lydia West are uniting to lead new Channel 4 comedy, Big Mood.
The six-part series is written and created by Camilla Whitehill and will depict female friendship in all its “vivacious and rebellious” forms, as it is “infiltrated by the complexities of a serious mental illness”.
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— Radio Times (@RadioTimes) February 21, 2023
3 episodes into BBC One’s Better and it’s a great series! Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie) is so so good in the lead role.
A great show for people wanting another slice of northern police drama after Happy Valley – with as different a central character as you could get from Catherine Cawood.
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Of the two new BBC One dramas, I am leaning a little more towards The Gold over Better, which I thought would be the other way round! Neither are blowing me away, and I’m only one into Better – it just hasn’t grabbed me immediately, though love seeing Leila Farzad outside of her I Hate Suzie role.
The Gold is all over the place with choppy editing and some questionable accents, but is – two episodes in – a lot of fun. I barely recognised Tom Cullen!
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Two months into the year, our series contenders so far…
DRAMA SERIES
Better
Beyond Paradise
Endeavour
Happy Valley
Lockwood and Co.
Maternal
The Rig
Unforgotten
Waterloo RoadMINI SERIES
The Catch
Desperate Measures
The Gold
The Light In The Hall
Nolly
Stonehouse
You & MeSINGLE DRAMA
ConsentSCRIPTED COMEDY
Deep Fake Neighbour Wars
Everyone Else Burns
Extraordinary
Funny Woman
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HBO’s Love & Death confirmed to be an ITVX release in the UK.
New ITVX/HBO series Love & Death is directed by @LeslilinkaG
The director's sparkling CV includes shows such as Homeland and Mad Menhttps://t.co/xOVMSOEiZy pic.twitter.com/TryfNnXX7U
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 27, 2023
So glad they’ve announced this prior, hate having to wait months/a years on end to legally watch US shows.
ReplyCopy URLSo glad they’ve announced this prior, hate having to wait months/a years on end to legally watch US shows.
Bad news, they’ve announced it’s coming in the Autumn.
It’s interesting to me that ITV have picked it up as opposed to it going to Sky. I don’t think their carriage deal extends to Max shows but you’d think they’d run to pick it up like with The Staircase and The Flight Attendant.
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How bizarre they’re holding it til Autumn
Disney+ are weird on some of their air dates too. Under The Banner of Heaven, Candy, Welcome To Chippendales and Fleishman Is In Trouble all aired much later in the UK than the US for seemingly little reason when shows like The Patient had a quick turn around.
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Series 2 of Sherwood is set to start rolling cameras in June according to SpoilerTV.
I wonder who is going to be a part of the cast this time round seeing how successful the first season was.
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Anyone watched Sky’s A town called Malice?
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One of the largest switches in quality I have seen in a show. The first two episodes are genuinely terrible hence the 6.3 IMDb rating where many must have given up but then the quality rises pretty dramatically in episodes 3/4/5 with a great twist I didn’t see coming. Not sure how it will finish.
Stupendous soundtrack for the show and a great performance from Tahirah Sharif who has improved dramatically these last few years with the Tower and now this. A long way from Waterloo Road with Rege-Jean Page.I’ve seen people tweeting on Twitter about just how stacked this year’s leading actress category is but I don’t think anyone is ready for the battle that has already commenced for next year…
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