Tuesday, July 31, 2007
So it's come to this: a lowculture clipshow
Labels: 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies, BBC2, Cape Wrath, Channel 4, e4, ITV2, Sensitive Skin, TV, What About Brian?
Don't you just hate it when you sit down to watch one of your beloved (usually American) TV shows, only to discover that you've been cheated out of a new episode and given a bunch of rehashed and re-edited clips passing themselves off as fresh or occasionally "unseen" footage instead? Well, you're probably not going to like this then, because due to circumstances beyond our control (we got unexpectedly dragged down the pub last night when we were meant to be writing this), we're going to briefly flit across a handful of programmes that are on tonight, rather than look at any particular one in depth, and steal as much of this writeup from the messageboard as we possibly can. Sorry. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.
Of note tonight, then: the final episode of Sensitive Skin at 10.00pm on BBC Two, which despite featuring the lovely Joanna Lumley and therefore pretty much automatically qualifying as highculture, has been widely appreciated on the boards, leading groopie to declare "I think I'm going to live on a boat" (there was probably some context for this within the show that makes more sense of it), while Cherubic commented: "I love this programme. I'm not very good at being positive, so that is all." High praise indeed.
Elsewhere, the excessively-trailed What About Brian? continues at 9.00pm on E4, but at least the trailers aren't as soul-crushingly annoying as the ones for Skins were, so we'll let it off. Most of the focus on the boards is on the fact that the show features Sarah Lancaster from Saved by the Bell: The New Class, but we gather she's not actually in this week's episode. Boo. At 8.00pm ITV2 will be exploring the 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies, but only down as far as number 81. Swizz! And Cape Wrath continues on Channel 4 at 10.00pm in the face of widespread public befuddlement, with comments such as "it's not really living up to its promise" from Nurse Dunkley and "I was really looking forward to this too, but it's lazy and boring" from cathybradford. Interesting how that's in the same timeslot as Sensitive Skin, the show everyone seems to love. Not that we're trying to make your viewing decisions for you. At least, no more so than usual.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Get cape, wear cape, flop?
MYSTERY! Cape Wrath, Channel 4, 10.00pm Labels: Cape Wrath, Channel 4, TV
We heard about this one a while back when it was profiled in one of the glossy trade magazines that we read, and thought it sounded rather intriguing: family under the witness protection scheme gets relocated to the slightly sinister Meadowlands estate where nothing is quite as it seems and everything has a faint sense of menace. It sounded a bit Twin Peaks-y, or at the very least, a bit Night and Day, and that sort of thing floats our boat most of the time.
The thing is, of course, it's in the Channel 4 10pm Drama Slot of Doom. Remember Goldplated? Remember Ghost Squad? Probably not, in all honesty, and with good reason: they rather struggled in the slot and either played out with little fanfare or went off adbruptly into that good night, literally, getting shunted off into a graveyard slot for the rest of their run. That's not to say that Cape Wrath is instantly doomed, but it may be sensible not to get too attached too early on, just in case we get left with a bunch of unsolved mysteries or something. Fingers crossed this one bucks the trend, eh?
We've done our usual trick of checking out the cast list to see how many recognisable faces are in it, and there's certainly no shortage: David Morrissey, Nina Sosanya, Melanie Hill and Don Gilet were the first four names that leapt out at us, so the combo of mystery and a good cast is definitely appealing to us. Also, it was filmed in Kent, where we hail from originally, so we want to see if we can recognise any of the locations, which is always fun if all else fails.
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