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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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This new 'sitcom' just looks absolutely atrocious from the clips ITV have shown so far - cringeworthy as a matter of fact.
WTF are two of our most revered actors doing delivering inane comedy lines in what appears to be an exercise in ham and camp ?
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"This new 'sitcom' just looks absolutely atrocious from the clips ITV have shown so far - cringeworthy as a matter of fact.
WTF are two of our most revered actors doing delivering inane comedy lines in what appears to be an exercise in ham and camp ?
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What is it OP |
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"This new 'sitcom' just looks absolutely atrocious from the clips ITV have shown so far - cringeworthy as a matter of fact.
WTF are two of our most revered actors doing delivering inane comedy lines in what appears to be an exercise in ham and camp ?
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Do you think??I think it looks brilliant! I also think it is amazing that these legends in their own times are doing something like this. A bit of a laugh and giggle...I will most definitely be watching it of the clips are anything to go by... |
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"This new 'sitcom' just looks absolutely atrocious from the clips ITV have shown so far - cringeworthy as a matter of fact.
WTF are two of our most revered actors doing delivering inane comedy lines in what appears to be an exercise in ham and camp ?
What is it OP"
A new 'comedy' with Sir Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi playing an elderly gay couple.
Frances De La Tour is in it too
I have seen 2/3 different clips now and it is just so sad to see them hamming it up with dreadful comedy lines.
I hope they had fun making it and I hope that the full experience is better than the clips, for our sakes more than theirs. |
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Fortunately, like any other TV programme, it's not compulsory viewing.
If enough people watch it then it will get a second series....if not then it won't.
Maybe Jacobi and McKellen agreed to star in it because they believed in the script? |
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"Maybe Jacobi and McKellen agreed to star in it because they believed in the script?"
They are both openly gay and McKellen is a proponent of the LGBT movement. |
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"Vicious old queens was the program's working title. I can't wait to see if they live up to it.  "
The synopsis is that the lead characters have been together for 50 years and have fallen into a rut of sniping at each other - until a young lithe gay man moves into the same apartment block. |
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"This new 'sitcom' just looks absolutely atrocious from the clips ITV have shown so far - cringeworthy as a matter of fact.
WTF are two of our most revered actors doing delivering inane comedy lines in what appears to be an exercise in ham and camp ?
Do you think??I think it looks brilliant! I also think it is amazing that these legends in their own times are doing something like this. A bit of a laugh and giggle...I will most definitely be watching it of the clips are anything to go by..."
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"its very funny
Really ?
I thought it was terrible
I didn't smile once let alone laugh out loud
Tepid comedy at its worstin your opinion. this job centre is funny as well"
Nooooooo diamonds
Its a good job you're a fellow dolly parton fan
(I was gonna say a fellow DP fan then but that has a whole different meaning on here ) |
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"its very funny
Really ?
I thought it was terrible
I didn't smile once let alone laugh out loud
Tepid comedy at its worstin your opinion. this job centre is funny as well"
It's worth watching for Russell Tovey tho
I have a major crush on him  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"its very funny
Really ?
I thought it was terrible
I didn't smile once let alone laugh out loud
Tepid comedy at its worstin your opinion. this job centre is funny as well
It's worth watching for Russell Tovey tho
I have a major crush on him "
I'm on +1 and already disappointed. Derek Jacobi was better as Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy. I'll keep going and hope it improves. |
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By *UNCHBOXMan
over a year ago
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"This new 'sitcom' just looks absolutely atrocious from the clips ITV have shown so far - cringeworthy as a matter of fact.
WTF are two of our most revered actors doing delivering inane comedy lines in what appears to be an exercise in ham and camp ?
I as soon as i saw it was on ITV, i knew it would be crap!.
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I enjoyed it.
It was pacey from the start and the writing and delivery kept the pace up all the way through.
I doubt other actors could have carried it off so well and it's certainly gender dependent for laughs.
It's predictability in parts made it somehow endearing.
I didn't find it limp wristed. I thought they were a couple of ascerbic old bitches; totally real to me.
I'll definitely be tuning in again.
Loved the Job Lot. I wanted to cry for the bloke trying to make a claim. That was so near reality it made me want to start a revolution.
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"I enjoyed it.
It was pacey from the start and the writing and delivery kept the pace up all the way through.
I doubt other actors could have carried it off so well and it's certainly gender dependent for laughs.
It's predictability in parts made it somehow endearing.
I didn't find it limp wristed. I thought they were a couple of ascerbic old bitches; totally real to me.
I'll definitely be tuning in again.
Loved the Job Lot. I wanted to cry for the bloke trying to make a claim. That was so near reality it made me want to start a revolution.
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Job Lot about to start. If it has any of that TwentyTwelve feel then I will enjoy it.
I think Vicious will grow on people: I can think of two couples just like that and it felt very realistic. |
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"I enjoyed it.
It was pacey from the start and the writing and delivery kept the pace up all the way through.
I doubt other actors could have carried it off so well and it's certainly gender dependent for laughs.
It's predictability in parts made it somehow endearing.
I didn't find it limp wristed. I thought they were a couple of ascerbic old bitches; totally real to me.
I'll definitely be tuning in again.
Loved the Job Lot. I wanted to cry for the bloke trying to make a claim. That was so near reality it made me want to start a revolution.
Job Lot about to start. If it has any of that TwentyTwelve feel then I will enjoy it.
I think Vicious will grow on people: I can think of two couples just like that and it felt very realistic."
Agree - although i felt the 1st one was weak i'll watch it again as they sometimes get better. Z |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I witnessed the final demise of sitcom on ITV tonight. It's been slowly creeping toward death for years. They finally managed it by 10pm.
The gay stuff was just embarrassing. I felt sorry for them throughout. But the more disturbing for us was the reinforcement of negative stereotypes in that job lot horse shit. Are we expected to swallow that it's a constant stream of dead beats and no hopers?!?!! Per-lease. Did David Cameron wrote this under a pseudonym?
And if I was a job centre employee, I'd feel a little insulted at the way the staff were portrayed.
Controversial as ever.
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