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Taiwan Tony 1 week, 4 days ago.
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performingmonkeyStarring Hugh Laurie, and Rebecca Front’s in it, for crying out loud, as well as the brilliant Lenora Crichlow. Of great interest, indeed….!
siHmmmm. Sounds interesting.
John HoareG&T Admin The fascinating thing about this is that Iannucci has gone on record before about his distaste for Red Dwarf.
It’ll be interesting to see what his version of a space sitcom is, and how it differs.
siThere’ll be some patio doors, I imagine.
DaveThe fascinating thing about this is that Iannucci has gone on record before about his distaste for Red Dwarf.
I don’t think I ever heard about this. What did he say?
Ridley“If you like Red Dwarf, you’ll love Hyperdrive.”
performingmonkeyMakes no sense why he’d diss Dwarf.
DarrellI can’t wait to see the angry middle aged one who swears creatively, the harangued older one who doesn’t do much but gets dragged along, the naive younger one who doesn’t have a personality but usually connects the subplots at the end, and two tutting women with no funny lines to say who are just Dorothy and Deborah from Men Behaving Badly but power-dressed. With starfields behind the windows.
Plastic PercyWhat about the aging career woman with a strained marriage and worries about her femininity?
John HoareG&T Admin I don’t think I ever heard about this. What did he say?
A certain Seb Patrick went to a Q&A with Armando Iannucci, and he said he didn’t really like Red Dwarf. I’m sure he talked about it on here, but I’m buggered if I can find the thread now.
Dave
siThohn.
Warbodog
GlenTokyoIt’s like Fhloston Paradise from The Fifth Element but a TV show.
It’ll obviously be decent, what with the writers and cast, but surprised at how unextraordinary it looks to say it’s a HBO show, not that it looks bad.
GlenTokyoMaybe that’s more a reflection on how normal TV has come on though in comparison to Premium cable channels.
Anyway, will watch.
DaveLooks good I reckon.
WarbodogNot watched Veep, so I don’t know how Armando’s Americanization’s gone. He’s the only writer for this listed on reliable old Wikipedia, so I don’t know if he’ll be delegating or not. Starts in January, definitely worth a try.
siYes, looks very decent.
LilySo how does one watch HBO shows in the UK anyway?
GlenTokyoIt’ll probably be on Sky Atlantic.
performingmonkeyIt’s a shame Capaldi’s not leading this tbh. Obviously, Hugh is more known to American audiences.
For a moment it looked like there was a huge disaster, leaving minimal crew, but Armando wouldn’t do that….?? You also just know the ‘notes’ from HBO, telling him to tap into ‘The Good Place’-type vibes, constantly kept dropping. Much like everything had to be like ‘The Office’ for a number of years.
Still, Rebecca Front and all that!!
WarbodogIt’s a shame it’s not “Hello” Hugh from The Armando Iannucci Shows, but he would be 106, if he wasn’t dead.
Taiwan Tony^ I read that in the style of Hugh from the Armando shows. His legacy will live on.
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