A Spontaneous TV Digest

[Calin Leafshade]

Yea our version of the office was only 2 serieseses.

Most of our stuff is written by very small teams compared to the US too.. Only Fools And Horses is the most successful sit-com in britain and it was written by one guy.

Same with One Foot In The Grace and loads of other British shows.

[Anian]

Also Red Dwarf - visually low on budget, 4 actors 90% of the time, season half the lenght of US shows, also most of the episodes were by the 2 creators. But it's awesome and funny.
To some extent even Black Adder (i'm talking about the production, not if it's funny or not).

Thing is, the constraint on the amount of episodes is what usually stops them from developing into soaps like many US shows do. That is few first (1,2,3) seasons are good, or there's a some time before it becomes good, but then it drags out and all the charm is lost and it loses the freshness.

[Calin Leafshade]

Yea.. what season is CSI on now....

[markbilly]

UK TV series are typically 3, 6, 8 or 13 episodes.

As I am aware, it is because of the small teams of writers, as Calin said.

[Ali]

Other great comedy serieseses which only ran to 12 episodes and were written by only two people include Fawlty Towers and Spaced.

Also Red Dwarf - visually low on budget, 4 actors 90% of the time, season half the lenght of US shows, also most of the episodes were by the 2 creators. But it's awesome and funny.
To some extent even Black Adder (i'm talking about the production, not if it's funny or not).

I hope the implication there is not that Blackadder isn't funny. It holds the rare accolade of having got better as it went along. As much as I once loved Red Dwarf the later serieseseseses were absolutely dreadful.

[LUniqueDan]

Thanks AG, Failed to got it with my usual ressources.  I'll find a way to overturn the IP when I'll got the Net at home in the next weeks.

Good timming I'm actually reading 'The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:' Great Stuff alil' hard to follow with my weak knowledge of chemistry.

[Anian]

I hope the implication there is not that Blackadder isn't funny.

That's what the brackets were for. I think BA is brilliant, not to mention later when Laurie and Fry join in.

[Stupot]

Did anyone happen to catch 'Grandma's House' on BBC2 last night?
Absolutely rubbish... quite possibly the worst sitcom I've ever sat through...
In fact, that's exactly what it is... a 'sit'... there was literally no 'com' whatsoever...

Appalling!!!

[straydogstrut]

Executive Producer Steven Moffat and his Producer wife Sue Vertue were on breakfast t.v. this morning saying there definitely *will* be more 'Sherlock'=)

Anyone seen they've made Sherlock's 'The Science of Deduction' website? It's all a bit silly really, what with the secret messages etc, but they've also made John Watson's blog and the comments between Holmes and Watson  (pretend, of course) are quite entertaining in themselves. What an easy job that must be for the web writer=)

I missed 'Grandma's House' myself, but I thought it was meant to be quite funny. Sounds like I didn't miss much then. On a similar note, tried watching an episode of 'Roger and Val Have Just Got In' since Dawn French usually does great stuff but it was really, really dull=(

[Anian]

...ok, watched the first episode. Moffat is very prolific, isn't he (Who, Coupling, Jekyll etc.)?   Nice modernisation, with style, instead of looking silly like most of those projects usually end up seeming like.

Didn't really like Sherlock character (and frankly the actor kind of freaks me out a bit) that much. A bit too clean cut, maybe H. Laurie did a better job with House - experimenting on people, unshaven, more serious drug addiction, looking tired etc.
Watson, while nicely done, two things bug me

Spoiler

- his leg gets better far too soon, I got the hints that it'll get better but I expected it to be shown a bit more, also a man limping for that long couldn't jump and run right after ditching the cane
- the shooting at the end looks like a in medias res event where they didn't know how to end it, Sherlock is a sociopath and doesn't care so much for people as he does for the puzzles but the reaction to killing was just strange. Although it did give Watson a strange dimension of darkness, which is interesting

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Still it calls for watching the rest of the episodes.

p.s. loved that joke with Anthea at the end  

[Dualnames]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1302133/Sherlock-second-series-BBC-confirms.html

YES BBC has confirmed it! New season coming up!

[Atelier]

Utter, pretentious, BBC-self-loving, wasteful drivel. NOT worth the licence fee in any shape or form. How about giving us a 6mth long story of a several fictitious families of different species of dinosaurs, in the vein of Walking With Dinosaurs.

Lol what an idiot. But great news Dualnames.