Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Is "The Line of Bumming" a bit crass and obvious? It is? Oh well, this is hardly The Guardian's Comment Is Free website or anything, is it?
HOW PREDICTABLE, THEY'VE CHOSEN The Line Of Beauty, BBC2, 9pm
If there's one thing guaranteed to get LOWCULTURE frothing at the gusset, it's the prospect of some good, old-fashioned man-on-man action on our television – especially since we upgraded to widescreen.
In THE LINE OF BEAUTY we are promised some of the most explicit gay sex scenes ever seen on UK TV – although it is safe to assume this does not include TVs in the UK which have ever had any of the nine volumes of Bel Ami's Personal Trainers series played on them.
Anyway, you'll want to know about the plot, won't you? OK. Love, sex class ... blah, blah, blah ... social elite ... blah, blah, blah ... richly textured coming-of-age story ... blah, blah, blah ... lots of bumming. Guess which bit of that wasn't from the official BBC press release?
Director Saul Dibb was interviewed in London's Evening Standard recently, and said of the gay sex scenes that his "biggest concern what that people might feel we were ducking it." Which is ALMOST the same as our biggest concern, but not quite.
Did we mention there's bumming in it? We did? Yes? Well that's all right then.
UPDATE: It now transpires that this may only feature the most explicit gay sex scenes ever seen on the BBC, which is not really the same thing at all. Boo!
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Personal Trainers 6 is my personal favourite.
I am very much looking forward to this. Bring on the bumming!
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Robbing The Dead, at
1:11 pm
Just to re-cap.. is there going to be bumming? :D
By 
, at
6:17 pm
Never mind the bumming, I can't believe you failed to tell us Floella Benjamin was it in!
By , at
12:25 am
Keep up the good work
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