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Posted at 21/10/2007, 03:37
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indeed one of the funniest things i've reag here in ages........................ |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 03:54
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... 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. |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 04:34
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thier president and more than a few of thier citizens need brain transplants as well. |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 05:31
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...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... |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 05:39
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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. |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 05:47
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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. |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 06:17
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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. |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 06:17
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it's my new favorite show... and thats just the first 5 minutes... and no i'm not proud of myself |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 06:22
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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... |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 08:06
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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! |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 09:08
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the prisoner starring patrick mcgoohan was british. |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 10:06
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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... |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 11:51
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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. |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 12:50
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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. |
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Posted at 21/10/2007, 13:40
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hmmm, seems like i need to brush up on my knowledge of british tv-shows  iforgot 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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