Funland - Britmovie

mutty · 15-11-2005, 01:30 PM

Funland, recently shown on BBC3, captured all that is good about British drama on tv. A fantastic plot and powerful characters, totally absorbing. Any comments?

arty-dave · 15-11-2005, 03:40 PM

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Steve Crook · 15-11-2005, 03:52 PM

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Funland, recently shown on BBC3, captured all that is good about British drama on tv. A fantastic plot and powerful characters, totally absorbing. Any comments?
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I only caught a few of them (the first two, then a few in the middle and the last one).
"Fantastic" is certainly the word for the plot.
Very strange but interesting characters, as you'd expect with Jeremy Dyson as one of the writers.
Certainly different and quite interesting.

Steve

DB7 · 15-11-2005, 04:27 PM

Caught one episode but sadly much of BBC3/4, ITV2/3/4 etc slips under my radar. Wouldn't be a bad idea if Sky altered the EPG to bunch the BBC, ITV and CH4 channels together.

arty-dave · 15-11-2005, 04:59 PM

It costs too much to do that - the BBC already is forking out FAR too much to be numbers one and two in the listings...

sanndevil · 15-11-2005, 06:23 PM

I only saw one episode - I think the second. Maybe that didn't give me opportunity for the show to grow on me. So, bearing that in mind, my rating of the show is very low. The narrative was confusing and the characters were the tried and tested cardboard cut-outs I have come to detest on contemporary "comedy" drama; the worse example being the 'humerous' Eastern European hitman. As funny as a kick in the bollocks. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]

Steve Crook · 15-11-2005, 06:26 PM

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As funny as a kick in the bollocks. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]
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That can be quite funny - when it's not you being kicked [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

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15-11-2005, 01:30 PM	#1
mutty has no status. Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 4 iTrader: (0)	Funland, recently shown on BBC3, captured all that is good about British drama on tv. A fantastic plot and powerful characters, totally absorbing. Any comments?

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DB7 is just Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Shrops Posts: 6,058 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (10)	Caught one episode but sadly much of BBC3/4, ITV2/3/4 etc slips under my radar. Wouldn't be a bad idea if Sky altered the EPG to bunch the BBC, ITV and CH4 channels together.

15-11-2005, 04:59 PM	#5
arty-dave has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 577 iTrader: (0)	It costs too much to do that - the BBC already is forking out FAR too much to be numbers one and two in the listings...

15-11-2005, 06:23 PM	#6
sanndevil has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Streatham SW2 Posts: 387 Country: iTrader: (0)	I only saw one episode - I think the second. Maybe that didn't give me opportunity for the show to grow on me. So, bearing that in mind, my rating of the show is very low. The narrative was confusing and the characters were the tried and tested cardboard cut-outs I have come to detest on contemporary "comedy" drama; the worse example being the 'humerous' Eastern European hitman. As funny as a kick in the bollocks. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]