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Started by ThryllSeekyr, 25 May, 2008, 09:17:31 PM

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ThryllSeekyr

Watched early last morning and was fortunate enought to catch the first episode.

About a wealthy fellow who runs a casino, games parlor in what I would think to be BlackPool. With hsi family. Some place close to the beach. Bit of a prick he is also.

There's nothing really grittily depressing about this show like lot of other show these days. As the first episode is about homicide investigation and the people connected to this.

To spice it up abit. The main characters perform the accompaning music.

David Tenant made a appearence as a Police Detective. Though you'd be forgiven if you couldn't tell him from his Dr Who character. Except for the slight change in his wardrobe which still suits his Dr Who persona. His clothing, something fashioable with a dark trench coat. He manner still very much the same, perhaps not as flippant. Not that I should find this unwelcome. He adds to the shows interest as he sings as well.

I quite enjoyed the forehead duel, while singing up against the main character.

It was on another thread that I suggested they put abit of singing into 'Life on Mars' as it's been named after a David Bowie song and all.http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/blackpool-tv-series-3974.jpg">

Proudhuff

It gets better too! This was on telly here a while ago and was very enjoyable...watch out it has a dark heart

Huffpool
DDT did a job on me

MIKE COLLINS

It's a little bit of genius that show. Lovely. And seeing David Tennant doing The Boy With The Thorn In His Side is one of my all time TV best moments.

ThryllSeekyr


DavidXBrunt

Ah Blackpool. I'm with Julie Goodyear on this one. Cheap tacky place where you never really have a very good time and yet still keep going back. Every year. The list of bad times I've had in Blackpool is endless - though not as bas as Julies', but then I've never been Miss Britvic 1965 - and yet whenever anyone suggests a visit I shrug my shoulders and say 'go on then'. The triumph of optimism over experience is what keeps Blackpool going.

As for the show, well it was belting. Thrashed the lightweight by fun Mine all Mine in the ratings despite that featuring John Scott Martin and his amazing grand-dad afro.

Look out for the not quite as good sequal and 'Funland' which shares a location and tonal similarity whilst still being something quite different.

Fact! Blackpool Wax Works has not one but two - count them - figures of Roy Barraclough.

ThryllSeekyr

Looks like a fun place to me.

A beach next to amusment park.

Reminds me of Coney island.

Radbacker

is funland the monkey suits and the casino strip club one?  very twisted if it is but very entertaining.  Didn't know it was a sequal to this one though as no songs.

CU Radbacker

DavidXBrunt

Sorry, Radbacker wasn't clear in that post. There's a sequal )Viva Blackpool) and theres Funland.

Blackpool looks fun, yeah, but really it's a depressingly crappy place and I really don't know why people go, even the kids can see through the glamour.

Recent;y it's become the stag and hen capital of the area and packs of drunks wander the streets. Last time I went a pack of about 50 people walked past roaring and the stragglers spotted a very fulsome woman and just walked over and tried to grab her. Nicky intervened and I did my John Le Mesurier impression ("Would you mind awfully not doing that?).

Peter Wolf


 I spent quite possibly the worst weekend of my life in Blackpool.Horrible.I never want to go there again  ever.Dirty,depressing,drunks chucking up everywhere ,the sort of people that i dont want anything to do with, amusements full of nothing except fruit machines,filthy cold dirty brown sea,and shops full of tacky tawdry "evening wear".

 It was a family weekend of cultural voyeurism.Fun for all the family.
Worthing Bazaar - A fete worse than death

Slippery PD

Blackpool looks fun, yeah, but really it's a depressingly crappy place and I really don't know why people go, even the kids can see through the glamour.

Recent;y it's become the stag and hen capital of the area and packs of drunks wander the streets. Last time I went a pack of about 50 people walked past roaring and the stragglers spotted a very fulsome woman and just walked over and tried to grab her. Nicky intervened and I did my John Le Mesurier impression ("Would you mind awfully not doing that?).


Its an awful place.  My family and I go every November for the National Ballroom dancing championship (my children compete - and yes its almost exactly like Strictly Ballroom).  I cant even escape off to a decent bar....  For those of us familiar with Bournemouth, Brighton or Torquay (the other three big tourist resorts in the country) it really isnt a place you want to be....


Proudhuff

Slip: that sounds like a special ring of hell to me. Blackpool, November,  and as Satre (almost) said 'Hell is other people's kids'.


The second Huff
DDT did a job on me

DavidXBrunt

Oh, you win the worst time in Blackpool trophy.