Being nosy here, but whereabouts is your MiL's street?
I recognise Tonyrefail Comp but can't place some of the other locations.
I don't want to give my mam in law's street away but it was in the Cymmer Porth area. And I know they used Bronwydd house Porth for the wedding as they couldn't get Pontypridd registry office. Hope this helps. I think a lot of the first episode was filmed down Caerphilly way. Rugby club and such.
I don't want to give my mam in law's street away but it was in the Cymmer Porth area. And I know they used Bronwydd house Porth for the wedding as they couldn't get Pontypridd registry office. Hope this helps. I think a lot of the first episode was filmed down Caerphilly way. Rugby club and such.
Thanks. I recognised main street in Talbot Green last week and could pick out parts of Rhondda Fach too.
Loving Stella so far - not from Wales but do have a lot of relatives and friends in the Swansea area, programme is really making me smile...........almost as much as the parochial Welsh banter on this thread!
I'm from Cornwall - so a lot of the humour 'translates' very well to my part of the world as well!
did anyone else miss the second half of episode 3? i recorded it, and thought it was odd when the planner said it had recorded a 60 minute episode of the simpsons - i watched it anyway, and there was a technical issue about 15 mins in with loss of sound - but then halfway through, the screen goes black - and hey presto - HD Stella gone, SD simpsons episode from i think season 2 is on.
really gutted as they only do one HD repeat - next bloody thursday.
looks like ill have to ''slum it'' and catch it on sky 2 tomorrow night.
Its repeated on Sky One tonight (9pm I think) because of the tech problems.
Thanks for this I hadn't noticed and my box is set for Casualty and Cloudstreet so 1 if not more of the 3 shows wouldn't have recorded. I'll have to find the Cloudstreet repeat now.:)
Thanks for this I hadn't noticed and my box is set for Casualty and Cloudstreet so 1 if not more of the 3 shows wouldn't have recorded. I'll have to find the Cloudstreet repeat now.:)
Well all I can say is, it was worth waiting for. Im just really loving this series. OK so its not "laugh out loud" comedy, but it is very amusing, and I think its great.
I dont understand the hate, I like this show, to be fair I liked trollied and Mount Pleasent...didnt like the cafe and havent watched The Spy yet
I agree with some of that i don't understand the hate as well. I also like Mount Pleasent and i also saw some of trollied but not all of them but thought they were good. but haven't seen the cafe or The Spy.
Thanks for this I hadn't noticed and my box is set for Casualty and Cloudstreet so 1 if not more of the 3 shows wouldn't have recorded. I'll have to find the Cloudstreet repeat now.:)
Bit late, but they put Stella on Anytime yesterday afternoon. So you could have watched/recorded both Casualty and Cloudstreet.
I've only seen the first episode so far but I loved it and think it looks likely to be head and shoulders better than anything else that Sky have produced.
Great characters, superb humour, but let down a little by the contrived plots.
If people could raise a large amount of cash like that in such a short space of time in real life, none of us would have money worries. Echoes of the slippery slope Shameless followed there....
And in soaps/sitcoms, when someone jumps to the front of a queue to do something annoying (like cash in a massive piggybank), nobody amongst the 10 people queued behind ever says a word.......cos that happens in real life, doesn't it?
That said, I did love the funeral speech, cut off after one line.....brilliant.
I don't want to give my mam in law's street away but it was in the Cymmer Porth area. And I know they used Bronwydd house Porth for the wedding as they couldn't get Pontypridd registry office. Hope this helps. I think a lot of the first episode was filmed down Caerphilly way. Rugby club and such.[/Q
You're not far out the building they used for the Funeral Parlour and the schemes outside are in the main street going through Llanbradach.
OK - I have waited until a few episodes in before giving my opinion as I really wanted to give it every chance. I thought after the first one it was ok - could be a slow burner. After the second one I decided I loved it. So very funny, funeral business, rampant sex games - fabulous.
Expecting to love the next episode and to be fair most of it was still great but it is the whole Stella/Shaun thing that I just can't get into.
I'm not saying a bloke can't fall for someone 10 years older - but it is an unusual thing to happen, especially with a really hot bloke. It would work though if there was just a tiny amount of chemistry but there isn't. That whole conversation at the end was cringing and ruined a great episode.
I hope the whole thing moves on quickly.
it is a bit similar to Miranda. Both written by very funny talented ladies and both end up with the 'not conventionally pretty' main characters getting a really hot younger boyfriend.
Mind you if I was the talented writer/actress I would damn well do that too!!!!
After reading some of the reviews on here after episode one, I was a little worried that I may not like this series. Well I think its brill, funny, and a breath of fresh air.
If someone can confirm for me, the son, Kyle, that got out of prison last week, was he in footballers wives, the loonatic boyfriend of Shanon?????
Thanks if anyone knows, driving me mad
OK - I have waited until a few episodes in before giving my opinion as I really wanted to give it every chance. I thought after the first one it was ok - could be a slow burner. After the second one I decided I loved it. So very funny, funeral business, rampant sex games - fabulous.
Expecting to love the next episode and to be fair most of it was still great but it is the whole Stella/Shaun thing that I just can't get into.
I'm not saying a bloke can't fall for someone 10 years older - but it is an unusual thing to happen, especially with a really hot bloke. It would work though if there was just a tiny amount of chemistry but there isn't. That whole conversation at the end was cringing and ruined a great episode.
I hope the whole thing moves on quickly.
it is a bit similar to Miranda. Both written by very funny talented ladies and both end up with the 'not conventionally pretty' main characters getting a really hot younger boyfriend.
Mind you if I was the talented writer/actress I would damn well do that too!!!!
Yeah, I get that and I was thinking the same thing too.
But I would add that I do see that sort of thing happening in real life (at least in my town!) with people in their 30/40s, and also we don't know a lot about Shaun yet - he may have ulterior motives or there may be undercurrents that will be revealed later in the series.
All in all though, cracking so far - perfect Friday evening viewing with a glass or two of wine, Ruth Jones is so talented.
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I don't want to give my mam in law's street away but it was in the Cymmer Porth area. And I know they used Bronwydd house Porth for the wedding as they couldn't get Pontypridd registry office. Hope this helps. I think a lot of the first episode was filmed down Caerphilly way. Rugby club and such.
Thanks. I recognised main street in Talbot Green last week and could pick out parts of Rhondda Fach too.
I'm from Cornwall - so a lot of the humour 'translates' very well to my part of the world as well!
really gutted as they only do one HD repeat - next bloody thursday.
looks like ill have to ''slum it'' and catch it on sky 2 tomorrow night.
cheers for that - i know it wasnt supposed to be on tonight so thats good to know. ill tune in at 9.30 to pick up where i left off
It's a breath of fresh air the whole cast is fantastic and it's rating very well.
Ruth Jones is fantastic. I hope she makes another series.
Thanks for this I hadn't noticed and my box is set for Casualty and Cloudstreet so 1 if not more of the 3 shows wouldn't have recorded. I'll have to find the Cloudstreet repeat now.:)
Cloudstreet is repeated on:-
Tuesday 11;10pm
Wednesday 10:15pm
Thanks for that , My wife thought thought she had set the recording wrong.
I agree with some of that i don't understand the hate as well. I also like Mount Pleasent and i also saw some of trollied but not all of them but thought they were good. but haven't seen the cafe or The Spy.
Thank-you:), box is now set for tuesday.
Bit late, but they put Stella on Anytime yesterday afternoon. So you could have watched/recorded both Casualty and Cloudstreet.
If people could raise a large amount of cash like that in such a short space of time in real life, none of us would have money worries. Echoes of the slippery slope Shameless followed there....
And in soaps/sitcoms, when someone jumps to the front of a queue to do something annoying (like cash in a massive piggybank), nobody amongst the 10 people queued behind ever says a word.......cos that happens in real life, doesn't it?
That said, I did love the funeral speech, cut off after one line.....brilliant.
Expecting to love the next episode and to be fair most of it was still great but it is the whole Stella/Shaun thing that I just can't get into.
I'm not saying a bloke can't fall for someone 10 years older - but it is an unusual thing to happen, especially with a really hot bloke. It would work though if there was just a tiny amount of chemistry but there isn't. That whole conversation at the end was cringing and ruined a great episode.
I hope the whole thing moves on quickly.
it is a bit similar to Miranda. Both written by very funny talented ladies and both end up with the 'not conventionally pretty' main characters getting a really hot younger boyfriend.
Mind you if I was the talented writer/actress I would damn well do that too!!!!
If someone can confirm for me, the son, Kyle, that got out of prison last week, was he in footballers wives, the loonatic boyfriend of Shanon?????
Thanks if anyone knows, driving me mad
No, I don't think that everyone is Wales is like that, just the same as I don't think everyone in Manchester is like the characters in Shameless.
I really loved that Stella had thought up her druggie/drug dealer name this week.
Yeah, I get that and I was thinking the same thing too.
But I would add that I do see that sort of thing happening in real life (at least in my town!) with people in their 30/40s, and also we don't know a lot about Shaun yet - he may have ulterior motives or there may be undercurrents that will be revealed later in the series.
All in all though, cracking so far - perfect Friday evening viewing with a glass or two of wine, Ruth Jones is so talented.