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Old 12-11-2016, 12:06
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And we love their President elect - not!
Let's just enjoy the fifties' political plotting and scheming without bringing in to-day's politics. There is a place for that and it isn't here.
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Old 12-11-2016, 12:55
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I am really enjoying this series and take my hat off to Netflix for such a great programme.
I think they have captured the feel and atmosphere of the Nineteen fifties very faithfully, much as I remember the times. It feels that the actual story line rings true as well. with the events of the period faithfully presented, as far as anyone can tell who was not actually involved.

The cast are doing a very job IMO, apart from Matt Smith as the Duke. To me he is so obviously acting, often a bit over the top. I keep expecting him to turn a corner and step into a police-box and beam away in his Tardis!
There must be other actors around who could have played the part better.

The Queen Mother also seems to be a little underused, I am sure she would have been taking a more active role guiding and advising her daughter. Perhaps we will see more of her and her influence in later episodes.
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Old 12-11-2016, 12:58
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I am really enjoying this series and take my hat off to Netflix for such a great programme.

I think they have captured the feel and atmosphere of the Nineteen fifties very faithfully, much as I remember those times. It feels that the actual story line rings true as well. with the events of the period faithfully presented, as far as anyone can tell who was not actually involved.

The cast are doing a very job IMO, apart from Matt Smith as the Duke. To me he is so obviously acting, often a bit over the top. I keep expecting him to turn a corner and step into a police-box and beam away in his Tardis!
There must be other actors around who could have played the part better.

The Queen Mother also seems to be a little underused, I am sure she would have been taking a more active role guiding and advising her daughter. Perhaps we will see more of her and her influence in later episodes.
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Old 12-11-2016, 13:17
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It counts as an American show because it is commissioned/100% funded by an American company, Netflix.
True. I notice the thread on The Grand Tour is in UK TV, which is funded and commissioned by an American company, Amazon.

At least both programmes are in TV programme forums and not the more technical Online Entertainment one.
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Old 12-11-2016, 22:36
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One of the things I found fascinating is that Downing Street used to be just a regular street and even with a Prime Minister there anyone could walk up and down it. Seems such a simple time compared to now. I love it.
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Old 12-11-2016, 22:58
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If this was on BBC One or woe betide ITV I wouldn't have gone near it. However the production values of Netflix make this a must see. Perhaps I'm becoming a tv snob
All that I have read is about all the glaring errors in it, pit they did not do a bit more research. Imagine the fuss if it had been a BBC production and they had made so many errors.
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Old 12-11-2016, 23:11
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All that I have read is about all the glaring errors in it, pit they did not do a bit more research. Imagine the fuss if it had been a BBC production and they had made so many errors.
Like Wolf Hall, Elizabeth R, White Queen and other BBC programmes it's a drama not a dramatised documentary.
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Old 12-11-2016, 23:21
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If this was on BBC One or woe betide ITV I wouldn't have gone near it. However the production values of Netflix make this a must see. Perhaps I'm becoming a tv snob
It's nice to have the option. Many of us don't.
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Old 12-11-2016, 23:24
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One of the things I found fascinating is that Downing Street used to be just a regular street and even with a Prime Minister there anyone could walk up and down it. Seems such a simple time compared to now. I love it.
It was like that until about the 80s. I remember having my picture taken at the door of 10 Downing street when I was a child in the 70s.
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Old 13-11-2016, 00:14
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Like Wolf Hall, Elizabeth R, White Queen and other BBC programmes it's a drama not a dramatised documentary.
When they are doing a drama about a modern period where viewers are familiar with the characters and many will spot basic errors from sloppy research. They can get away with a lot more when it is set several hundred years ago.
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Old 13-11-2016, 06:11
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If this was on BBC One or woe betide ITV I wouldn't have gone near it. However the production values of Netflix make this a must see. Perhaps I'm becoming a tv snob
I've always found it the other way around to be honest with the TV snobs tending to stick with the BBC and dismissing Netflix. Hopefully this stunning series will change a few attitudes.
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Old 13-11-2016, 11:08
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Claire Foy & the screenwriter Peter Morgan were on The Andrew Marr Show this morning talking about the series. About 38 minutes in, it was quite interesting.
The Andrew Marr Show, 13/11/2016: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08398yg via @bbciplayer
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Old 13-11-2016, 11:55
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It counts as an American show because it is commissioned/100% funded by an American company, Netflix.
It's a bit like when people make out the James Bond films are British. Yes, they maybe shot here, but there isn't British money going into them.
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Old 13-11-2016, 19:51
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One of the things I found fascinating is that Downing Street used to be just a regular street and even with a Prime Minister there anyone could walk up and down it. Seems such a simple time compared to now. I love it.
It was like that until about the 80s. I remember having my picture taken at the door of 10 Downing street when I was a child in the 70s.
Downing Street is still technically a public right of way.
The gates were only erected when Margaret Thatcher became the most divisive and hated Prime Minister ever in the 1980's (our Donald Trump?).

I think that Tony Blair might have even had them removed if it 9/11 hadn't happened?
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Old 13-11-2016, 21:06
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It's nice to have the option. Many of us don't.
It's not expensive to subscribe to Netflix, you may need a box to receive via the internet (our Blu-Ray player can show it and that wasn't much to buy), then it's a small monthly fee. You do need a decent broadband speed though.
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Old 13-11-2016, 21:08
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Personally I think it's better here!!! Comments on Sky originals don't go in the Sky forum.

It's a TV programme we're discussing not a provider.
Agreed, and more people are more likely to read it.
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Old 13-11-2016, 21:09
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It's a bit like when people make out the James Bond films are British. Yes, they maybe shot here, but there isn't British money going into them.
There is British money in them , they are made by MGM and EON productions, EON is a British company
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Old 13-11-2016, 21:16
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Downing Street is still technically a public right of way.
The gates were only erected when Margaret Thatcher became the most divisive and hated Prime Minister ever in the 1980's (our Donald Trump?).

I think that Tony Blair might have even had them removed if it 9/11 hadn't happened?
Hated amongst the Left but also one of the most popular Prime Ministers amongst many others. I doubt whether Tony Bliar wiould have removed the gates especially as ge did actually become the most hated Prime Minister and most hated ex=Prime Minister.
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Old 13-11-2016, 21:44
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Downing Street is still technically a public right of way.
The gates were only erected when Margaret Thatcher became the most divisive and hated Prime Minister ever in the 1980's (our Donald Trump?).

I think that Tony Blair might have even had them removed if it 9/11 hadn't happened?
There were gates/barrier erected in 1920 due to the IRA which were taken down in 1922, metal barriers were put up to prevent vehicle access in 1973 and the police wanted further restrictions in 1974. Railings and a gate were put up in 1982 with the current gate going up in 1989 to replace the older ones , the 1982 and the current gate were mainly due to the IRA threat not that because she was a hated PM . Blair had the gates fixings and foundations strengthened in 2003.

Whilst a right of way exists it has been dealt with via restrictions by the City of Westminster

(a) prohibit vehicles and pedestrians from entering or proceeding in Downing Street at all times, except those authorised by the police;

(b) prohibit pedestrians from entering or proceeding in that area of the footway forming the boundary between Downing Street and Whitehall, except those authorised by the police; and

(c) allow the police, at their discretion, to prohibit pedestrians from entering or proceeding in certain parts of Whitehall adjacent to the Cabinet Office, the boundary with Downing Street and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.


Which to be honest seems perfectly reasonable given the world we live in now .

An interesting fact , the actual bricks of No 10 are a yellow colour, they found that out when doing restoration after WW2 ,when they cleaned the exterior that the blackish colour was pollution, so once cleaned they painted them back to the well known colour as that is what people were familiar with.
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Old 13-11-2016, 21:49
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There is British money in them , they are made by MGM and EON productions, EON is a British company
Paid for by Netflix which isn't.
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Old 13-11-2016, 21:53
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Paid for by Netflix which isn't.
I was speaking of the Bond films which was mentioned in the post , and Netflix for any of its programmes will use money from all over the world so as there are British members therefore some money will come from income made in Britain
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Old 13-11-2016, 22:16
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I'm absolutely loving this series, it's everything I hoped Victoria would be. I was so dissapointed with Victoria and gave up after 4 episodes. I'm determined not to binge watch it though. An episode a day at most.
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Old 13-11-2016, 23:00
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Alex Jennings does a great job as the Duke of Windsor, wonderfully bitchy
Yes, he was very good, and also Lia Williams as the Duchess. Loved the bit where he was watching the coronation on tv in Paris, and his interest and comments!
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Old 13-11-2016, 23:08
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Paid for by Netflix which isn't.
But produced by a British company, Left Bank Pictures. The show is British-American. It really is laughable when I see people call the show American just because an American company provided the money for it (which as others have said comes from people all over the world, including the UK).

Netflix seem to be beginning to create lots of shows in other countries. They're not doing it because they want American shows; they're doing it because they want shows from other cultures/languages/experiences.
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Old 14-11-2016, 00:19
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It was like that until about the 80s. I remember having my picture taken at the door of 10 Downing street when I was a child in the 70s.
Same here, except I went through the door as well because of my fathers links with the government through his position at the time, As for the Crown, it is a triumph for Netflix but I bet the Royal Family are not best pleased with it.

I cannot wait for the period covering the 1970's to see if they cover the scandalous photos stolen from a bank vault that were of a naked Margaret with a married man taken at the house she owned in Mustique. If they do then it will be a case of off to the Tower for the writer of the Crown.
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