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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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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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It counts as an American show because it is commissioned/100% funded by an American company, Netflix.
At least both programmes are in TV programme forums and not the more technical Online Entertainment one. |
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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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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
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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.
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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
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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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Like Wolf Hall, Elizabeth R, White Queen and other BBC programmes it's a drama not a dramatised documentary.
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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
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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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It counts as an American show because it is commissioned/100% funded by an American company, Netflix.
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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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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.
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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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. |
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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.
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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? |
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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? 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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There is British money in them , they are made by MGM and EON productions, EON is a British company
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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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Alex Jennings does a great job as the Duke of Windsor, wonderfully bitchy
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Paid for by Netflix which isn't.
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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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.
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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