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piimapoika
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Blandings Castle returns to TV: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/367731/Downton-Abbey-No-pigton
Timothy Spall is chubbier than the earl in the books, but I'm looking forward to it. I seem to remember a series in the 60's with Stanley Holloway as Beach the butler (who in the books was hugely fat).
Timothy Spall is chubbier than the earl in the books, but I'm looking forward to it. I seem to remember a series in the 60's with Stanley Holloway as Beach the butler (who in the books was hugely fat).
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I am not sure about Timothy Spall as the earl though. I hated him as Churchill in the The King's Speech. Can he convince anyone that he is really "posh"?
Blandings
Pig-Hoo-O-O-O-Ey! Series 1, episode 1.
Comedy series based on the stories by PG Wodehouse. Clarence has to get his pig eating again or he will lose the Fattest Pig prize to his fiendish rival. Meanwhile, Connie demands he put a stop to his niece Angela's love affair with cowboy Jimmy.
coming up. Not so pleased now,when I read
that Jennifer Saunders and 'I'll do anything
to be famous' David Walliams are in it!
So I will not be viewing,as the dreadful eye
rolling and gurning that those two take to be
'acting' frankly gives me the pip!
Not half so good as the books then?
Currently working my way through ..Heavy Weather...further Blandings fun
The humour has been filleted out of it, somehow.
I like a bit of Wodehouse too.
Lol, this just shows how difficult it is to grab peoples attention these days.
I'll most probably carry on watching for a week or two to see how (or even if) it develops.
I agree. As for the earl I think that Griff Rhys Jones would have been ideal, but perhaps he has given up acting. He is posh and naturally has an air of vague confusion.
Timothy Spall is a good actor but to me he is miscast in this.
I'll stick with my first post, it's oddly charmless and not funny.
Blandings was not meant to be taken seriously. I would call it a Charleston compared to DA's waltz. Everyone compares everything to Downton these days so I thought I would just get it in before someone else does!
Sure, it wasn't the best programme in the world, but it was entertaining enough to digest my Sunday Dinner with. I think it will grow on me.
The baffling thing is that people would happily watch "Celebrity Paint Watching" without complaining, as is proved with Splash!
Take it or leave it for me.
I always watch more than one episode before I decide if I like it or not. A bit like reading a good book. The first few pages can be hard going but leads into something really good.
Do people in this country now have such a low attention span that if they don't "get it" immediately then they have decided it isn't very good?
What have you seen on this thread that indicates we're all unfamiliar with the work of PG Wodehouse?
That we don't understand it's a comedy?
Has anyone compared it to Downton Abbey, I don't think they have.
Try not to jump the gun with your own assumptions.
Just because you think Splash is $hite and this is OK, doesn't mean that others have to agree with you, no matter how you want to frame your argument.
I haven't watched Splash and won't do, I still like Wodehouse, download it off Radio 4 and got the Oldest Member on my MP3 player now, always have some Wodehouse on there as a fall back.
Just remembered I've got 500 meg of Simon Callow reading Wodehouse I haven't listened to yet, so you've done something useful...