London Irish Channel 4 10pm New Comedy Starting Tonight 24/9
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Just flicking through the TV guide and noticed this new comedy is starting tonight. I haven't heard anything about it or seen any trailers. It's about the antics of four Northern Irish twenty somethings living in London and stars Ardal O'Hanlon. Good comedies are a rarity these days so hopefully it will be funny! (Don't blame me if it isn't 
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Twenty somethings ? Ardal O'Hanlon is 47 !
That's what I thought when I read it on the TV guide! He might be someone's dad in it
The trailers put me off too. Being old enough to remember (and actually see the results first-hand) of Irish terrorism, I found one of the trailers very unfunny indeed.
Who writes the EPG for programmes?
"the friends' sense of normalcy " ???
Can we have the EPG in English please?
Nah.
Very short too. She looked tiny when at the check-in at the airport. My mother's family are Irish as well. Nothing funnier than a bunch of pissed short angry women all threatening each other at a family get together, especially when one of their husbands intervenes and they all turn on him
Really? I think she can easily play younger characters though. I don't think Nina is meant to be in her 30s in Being Human.
I haven't watched this yet, but I have recorded it because it sounds interesting and I like both Sinead and Ardal O'Hanlon.
None of the characters is remotely likeable either.
I feel that the first episode would have been far more interesting had they explained the relationship between the characters or at least why dressguy was working behind the bar.
that is true, she does not look in her 30's tbh. brilliant actress she is too.
I know people use it in real life, but in real life people also wipe their arses and inspect what's
on the bog paper but I don't want to see that on my TV.
Ardal plays the Dad, he's not in it for long.
She's unlikeable in this, so is oddly enough, I've don't find her fancible, I wouldn't want to 'ride' her character.
They were just discussing this on The Wright Stuff, accusations of stereotyping the Irish, lazy, drunken, cheats.
Lazy and cheating are 'new' stereotypes to me though.
I'll have to agree with Olly Smith (never heard of him before), who compared it to Father Ted, which could have been accused of stereotyping.
Father Ted, wasn't lazy (writing) , was quite surreal and importantly had warmth.
There's something not right about this, needs tweaking, but I'm not 'that' interested in trying to work out what that tweak is.
I'll give it another go though, unless there's something else on.
The subs on 4+1 were running way behind the dialogue too which didn't help.:mad:
Ardal was doing the exact same voice as Dougal, so it didn't work for me. Luckily he was only a brief cameo. It's a bit disingenuous to say in the EPG that it stars Ardal (and I can't see him coming back in later episodes if he's in Ireland and the setting is in London).
I know! Normalcy is an American made up word!