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This show is just so bloody hilarious. First Season finished showing in Australia and the DVD is out - has the second season started showing in the UK? Would American's "get" it?
Anyone? No? Dust...
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Okay, I've downloaded and watched an episode, and, to answer your question, I'm pretty sure most Americans would not, in fact, get it. I mean, I thought it was funny, but I'm sure there was a lot of stuff underlying the jokes that just went over my head.
And I'm kicking myself for not realizing until the end credits that the narrator was Tom Baker.
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Well - I'm sure they wouldn't get the 'bad transvestite' Emily Howard. Considering most Americans didn't find "Profit and Lace" [DS9] very funny. (That'll cause some sort of a stir now, won't it.)
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Father Ted, The Far Show (swiss Toni mmm), The Office and that funny little wallaby, I like those britshows. Also, others. Eastenders I tried while visiting the UK in 2002, didn't do it for me. I guess it's made for the UK alone.
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No, Eastenders is just crap. I also just got the Father Ted DVDs; fecking fantastic! I like Little Britain, but I don't think a lot of it would travel that well. I'm also not totally sure about BBC 3. It seems to exist solely to preview shows that are going to be on BBC 2. None of which are as good as Blackadder, of course.
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It'd be a long shot - but did anyone here watch "The Book Group". (No not Black Books). It was a fantastic show that was somewhere between black, subtle comedy and drama.
There have been two seasons so far. Basically starts as the story of a young American woman going to live in Glasgow and starts a book group to 'meet interesting people'. (Basically she hasn't had sex in 7 months) She's a right bitch and doesn't get a lot of British/Scottish idiosynchrocies. It developes into a very brilliant comedy/drama that sucks you right in.
I'm really annoyed - since they haven't made a third season yet and they haven't released the second season on DVD yet. I never got to see the final episode of season 2 - so if anyone knows what I am talking about and can provide - please do!! You can get the season 1 DVD with all 6 episodes - if you don't know what I'm talking about.
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I remember The Book Group being on, but never watched it. Channel 4 have a habit of cancelling shows that are actually good and enjoyable and popular. Not 'edgy' enough apparently. Far better to make shows that are controversial-funny like Shameless. They're Mancs! They drink and swaer a lot! And they're called the Gallagher family, like the Oasis boys who are Mancs and drink and swear a lot! Like, edgy to the max!
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Okay, I've watched a few more episodes of "Little Britain", and I've come to a conclusion: the narration is actually the best part. The sketches themselves, however, get really really really repetetive after about one episode. I mean, did they get drunk one night and accidentally buy a fifty-gallon drum of fake vomit, so they decided they had to use it, or what?
Seriously, a lot (most?) of the jokes just don't really work more than once when you don't really change anything about them. And yet, they use them every episode, if not multiple times in each.
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Peep Show + Look Around You is the best 45 minutes of my week.
I sure hope there is a region one DVD release in the works for both. (Well, especially the former.)
(And I hear there is interest in an American version of Peep Show, and I am like, oh, great. Only, get this: I am being sarcastic, because: Bleah.)
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