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Euronymous

Euronymous

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Over the last few years i`ve started to realise that the real talent out there in the
entertainment industry is in television rather than film. I`ve not really seen that many good films over the last half a dozen years or so and yet some of the tv i`ve seen, in particular dramas have been some of the best acted/directed productions i`ve ever watched

My favourites:
1, The Sopranos
2, The Shield
3, The Simpsons
4, The Office
5, Deadwood

One of the reasons these pieces resonate so well is the fact that you get to know the characters inside out, we`re not just talking about two or three hours in a film. So when you get perfectly written and acted characters like Tony Soprano and Vic Mackey...roles cast so well it`s untrue...the sympathy and even attachment you feel for them, even though as people they have immense flaws and are basically fairly bad guys, is complete and total.
 
* Kath & Kim - because its nice, its different & its UNUSUAL! :D

* Home & Away - the worst soap drama anywhere in the world on tv, but its totally addictive. As crap as the show is, it has launched the likes of Dieter Brummer, Melissa George, Justin Melvey, Julian McMahon, Craig McLachlan, Guy Pearce.

* Australia's Brainiest - a crap show that tests ones general knowledge. Usually its Australia's Brainiest Kid, but new episodes include Australia's Brainiest Musician, Australia's Brainiest Comedian, Australia's Brainiest Neighbour, etc.

* All Saints - Australian hospital drama show.
 
You Are What Eat.

Because it allows me to scream abuse at that rat faced little twerp for half an hour every week.

I'd quite to shove a couple of pounds on chips laden with heavily processed cheese up her....
 
Currently are:
Desperate Housewives
Prison Break
My Name is Earl
Hustle
The Apprentice
 
I don't make a point of watching any TV programme. This is partly because I don't want to get hooked on one and end up being frustrated at missing an episode, and I don't want to get to the stage where I feel frustrated about missing out on something as trivial as a TV show!

I've even lost track of The West Wing!
 
I like The Apprentice. jo has got nine lives but I like her, I like the American version too, also there was a very funny spoof called Big fat obnoxious boss did anyone see it?
i was recently watching an old TV series on the sci -fi channel called V, complete nonsense, but entertaining, also watch Taken, the Speilberg epic.
love my soaps Corrie, Eastenders and Emmerdale.
 
Readily agree with 1, 3 and 4 on your list Euronymous

Would also add Family Guy to that, I would assume that if you enjoy the Simpsons and the Office, you would probably appreciate it to you although it's more slapstick than deadpan.

I've never been one to go out of my way to watch television programmes, but others I would add to the list are the excellent Cold Case which is very well made in my opinion and also I'm Alan Partridge and indeed any of the programmes of that particular ilk, going back as far as The Day Today and Knowing Me Knowing You
 
Originally posted by Bobbyjo@Mar 27 2006, 02:13 PM
Readily agree with 1, 3 and 4 on your list Euronymous

Would also add Family Guy to that, I would assume that if you enjoy the Simpsons and the Office, you would probably appreciate it to you although it's more slapstick than deadpan.
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Yeah, Family Guy is excellent and would have made a top ten. I think it`s a crying shame that the BBC and ITV dont purchase more quality dramas from the States. The Shield is the best cop series i`ve ever seen, but because it`s on Channel 5 at around midnight it`ll never get seen by huge audiences.
 
watch wiff muvver
rag tag and bobtail
Only fools and horse
open all hours
porridge
factual history


none of those soaps on my T/V I can assure you Ena Sharples was last on Corrie when I seen it last..................... :rolleyes:
 
Ena Sharples was one of the original characters of the long-running British soap opera, Coronation Street.

Ena, played by Violet Carson between 1960 and 1980, was the caretaker of the mission hall, and spent much of her time criticising the activities of the other inhabitants of the Street. She almost always wore a double-breasted coat and hairnet, and, with her two cronies, Martha Longhurst and Minnie Caldwell, would spend much of her free time in the snug of the Rover's Return drinking milk stout. For many years in the UK, the nickname "Ena Sharples" would be applied to a battleaxe.

The above from wikipedia.

She sounds like one of the old dears in my village :what:
What on earth is milk stoute?
 
Milk stout
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Milk Stout (also called Sweet Stout or Cream Stout) is a type of stout beer containing lactose, a sugar derived from milk. Because lactose is unfermentable, it adds sweetness, body, and calories to the finished beer. Contemporary labeling standards prevent the use of the term today (except in Guernsey).

Milk Stout was supposed to be very nutritious, and was given to nursing mothers. In 1875, John Henry Johnson first sought a patent for a milk beer, based on whey, lactose, and hops.

Milk Stout was not very widely distributed until Mackeson's Brewery acquired the patents to produce it in 1910. Since then the production has been licensed to other brewers.

Currently, Milk Stout is made by :

Europe: Mackeson's (Guernsey), Simonds Farsons Cisk Brewery (Malta)

USA: Keegan Ales (Kingston, New York), The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery (North Carolina), Widmer Brothers Brewing Co. (Oregon), Lancaster Brewing Company (Pennsylvania).
 
Originally posted by Euronymous@Mar 27 2006, 12:54 AM
So when you get perfectly written and acted characters like Tony Soprano and Vic Mackey...roles cast so well it`s untrue...the sympathy and even attachment you feel for them, even though as people they have immense flaws and are basically fairly bad guys, is complete and total.
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Ever since they brought the gardener into The Sopranos it's hard to see how you could have any sympathy for those guys. The poor gardener's earning an honest crust then next thing, his arm's broken, Pauly's taking a piece of his "action" and he's doing the top man's garden for nothing more than a dirty look. Those guys are scum through and through. Don Corleone they aint.
 
The West Wing
CSI
er
Lost
Family Guy
The Simpsons
24

I have lost track of Desperate Housewives this year.
 
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