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Official ratings in for e1: 640k
So, the table so far: e1 561k overnight, 640k official. e2: K The table so far: e1 561k overnight, 640k official. e2: (630k overnight estimate), 721k official e3: Nice to see it going up! (Sorry, Straker, would you like sauce with your fedora! )K |
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She has a fantastic laugh.
The character of Ingrid Sjostrom is played by Isabell Sollman who was born in Sweden. She has appeared periodically in the series from 2000 to 2011. |
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Wouldn't know, never had that particular pleasure
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I cannot understand how actors can speak different languages to each other in the same scene. It must make it very difficult for them to work out when to say their lines!
According to the usual sources of IMDB and Wikipedia, Katharina Bohm was born in Lugano so it's by no means impossible that she speaks Italian. Her IMDB profile also lists some other TV work in Italian series, at least 2 in the 1990s, it seems odd that she would be cast if she does not speak Italian. Quote:
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Who wouldn't want to live in his house right on the sea - definitely makes me want to visit Sicily. ![]() We arrived in Catania when it was dark and had a devil of a time finding the right route to get to our hotel. After driving around for at least half an hour and going in circles several times, we found the correct exit road. The reason we had missed it was because the signpost was in brown and had no lighting and it was next to invisible in the dark unless you knew exactly where and when to look... We visited Ragusa which features in a lot of the location shots and it was a very atmospheric place. We went in October, out of season, but it was still pleasant enough in terms of weather and I would definitely go back again. |
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Official ratings for e2: 721k. Using the same "overnight/official" ratio for e2 as for e1 results in:
The table so far: e1 561k overnight, 640k official. e2: (630k overnight estimate), 721k official e3: I had wondered if it would drop between eps 1 and 2 as so many people around here don't seem to like it.
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According to the usual sources of IMDB and Wikipedia, Katharina Bohm was born in Lugano so it's by no means impossible that she speaks Italian. Her IMDB profile also lists some other TV work in Italian series, at least 2 in the 1990s, it seems odd that she would be cast if she does not speak Italian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_B%C3%B6hm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0127041/ |
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BBC4 celebrates it's 10th birthday on Friday(according to my BBC4 weekly newsletter)
Mr Klein says:- Channel Controller Richard Klein says: "It is an honour and a delight to be looking after BBC Four on its 10th birthday and I can think of no better way to celebrate this than with mirror balls, platform shoes and the Bee Gees. Blow-dried hair is optional." I'll be raising a glass(or two) to celebrate the anniversary. Please feel free to do likewise. |
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Someone else coined it first (sorry, can't remember who!) but I love it too!
K edit: It was "Denley" in post #201 - all kudos go to him/her! Quote:
I like that - that name's going to stick!
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Great name!
![]() ![]() ![]() glad you like it, when it popped into my silly head I just had to share.....Not seen the last ep yet but will try and catch up before this weekend. |
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Instead of MentalBaldo how about calling him MentalBaldy??
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Instead of MentalBaldo how about calling him MentalBaldy??
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MentalBaldy doesn't quite have the Italian ring to it somehow. Verencio
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According to these she was born in Swizterland of Austrian descent
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Since Lugano is in the Swiss Canton of Ticino which is the Italian speaking part, it seemed to be not impossible to me that she speaks Italian if she spent more than a few years there when growing up. Wikipedia claims Lugano to be the largest Italian speaking City outside Italy.
Even if she did grow up in Switzerland and learnt to speak Italian it would have been Swiss Italian which is a bit different to regular Italian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Italian |
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Well, I started it because I thought it was a normal courtesy to those who haven't seen it yet.
I guess that's not resolved then. Nor how Fazio knew what had happened. There remains the burning question though: why did the chicken cross the road? ![]() If the Italian have the same riddle, that was a good visual gag. Right or wrong, I assumed that Fazio knew what had happened due to a mafia connectiopn hinted at previously. ideas?? Loving the views of sicily. a trip to his house please!
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I am wondering whether we are losing a lot in translation eg Livia, Fazio
Right or wrong, I assumed that Fazio knew what had happened due to a mafia connectiopn hinted at previously. ideas?? Loving the views of sicily. a trip to his house please! ![]() No S**t Sherlock!!!
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I've been a lazy arse today but still didn't get around to watching MB part 3
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Nearly time for Mentalbaldo!
Tonight's ep looks intriguing from what I've read of the previews. Still quite an old one - from 2000.
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Seeing Catarella sitting outside Mentalbaldo's hospital gave me a flashback to when Svartman always used to get that job
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Seeing Catarella sitting outside Mentalbaldo's hospital gave me a flashback to when Svartman always used to get that job
![]() What rank is Mimi meant to be? A bit of office politics between him and IM tonight. |
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Finally caught up with the episode with the female musician and the chickens. Here are a few thoughts, apologies if they have already been covered. Two hours is far too long without a single break, had expected two one hour shows, really glad it was recorded and I could pause it.
Apart from that I liked it, but beneth the exotic Italian exterior it's not really that good is it? How old was it FFS? Would I be right in thinking there is extended female nudity in every episode, even if it's just ogling a corpse? And he's a maverick whos in trouble with his boss, does it his own way and has relationship difficulties? Where have we heard that before? Wrong person gets violently killed and labelled a killer. Real killed identified, conveniently blows own brains out avoiding need for messy trial and explantion about killing innocent disabled man. Too neat. |
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Apart from that I liked it, but beneth the exotic Italian exterior it's not really that good is it? How old was it FFS? Would I be right in thinking there is extended female nudity in every episode, even if it's just ogling a corpse? And he's a maverick whos in trouble with his boss, does it his own way and has relationship difficulties? Where have we heard that before?
Wrong person gets violently killed and labelled a killer. Real killed identified, conveniently blows own brains out avoiding need for messy trial and explantion about killing innocent disabled man. Too neat. There does seem to be some nudity in each ep but no more so than in something contemporary like Homeland, which comes across as a lot more crass IMO. This show isn't to everyone's taste and it does follow a lot of crime drama conventions, but I've got to like it by now - it has grown on me. It seems to be attracting a loyal following going by Twitter and elsewhere. |
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Did they run out of plot?
The last five minutes was a bit "Mills and Boon." In detective dramas I find only elements of "will they? won't they?" of any interest. Once they have, for me there's little point of spending time on a domestic situation which has little to do with the plots. I wonder where they got the wood for the doors of the cave? It looked in remarkable condition if it'd been there since the 1940s. You can't get a wooden window frame to last ten years these days. Must have been a duff load of ammunition if he only took one bullet from an automatic at about 20 yards. My wife was watching something else in another room while this was on, she came in to speak to me so I turned the sound down a bit. When She went out again I turned the sound up as "I couldn't hear what they were saying!" strange that, as I don't speak Italian. But anyway, an otherwise entertaining episode. |
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Oh yes, that's right. They even risked letting him loose at the beginning, and bringing him to that house where the old mafia guy was. He asked IM what he's supposed to do.
![]() What rank is Mimi meant to be? A bit of office politics between him and IM tonight. According to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_commissario_Montalbano MB is a Commissario and Mimi is a Vice Commissario The article also states that some episodes are combined from more than one Mentalbaldo short story which seems to be the case with last night as the business with the guns and the business with the two bodies had no connection with each other. |
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Finally caught up with the episode with the female musician and the chickens. Here are a few thoughts, apologies if they have already been covered. Two hours is far too long without a single break, had expected two one hour shows, really glad it was recorded and I could pause it.
Apart from that I liked it, but beneth the exotic Italian exterior it's not really that good is it? How old was it FFS? Would I be right in thinking there is extended female nudity in every episode, even if it's just ogling a corpse? And he's a maverick whos in trouble with his boss, does it his own way and has relationship difficulties? Where have we heard that before? Wrong person gets violently killed and labelled a killer. Real killed identified, conveniently blows own brains out avoiding need for messy trial and explantion about killing innocent disabled man. Too neat. But I do like the way they expand on the characters, bringing in the headmaster, and the mother of his childhood friend (the pimp with a heart who was killed in last night's episode ?)..you don't get that in CSI. ![]() I also liked the way it touched on the wartime history of the Island, the general politics of the island and the internal politics of the police etc. There were even a few little jibes at the media and celebrity culture this week. But mostly I love his little house, right on the beach, and want to go live there.
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Highlights for me were seeing Catarello "tooled up" at the start
and the conversation with the old lady schoolteacher (dunno why, but it just put a huge grin on my face!).K |
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I had wondered if it would drop between eps 1 and 2 as so many people around here don't seem to like it.