British TV
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robinturnerOne of the great things about visiting my mother and my mother country is British TV.
I started the evening with a TV series about a stage magician's assistant who doubles as an amateur detective solving the kind of crimes that could only be committed by magicians. There are two murders to solve, one of which takes place on a film set in a stately home in a locked room, and the other in the dungeon of a Scottish castle where Bloody Mary used to martyr Protestants.
Then, after deciding that it is once again too late to try to understand 24, I channel-hop and find a sex scene in Welsh. Of course, since it takes place in Wales, it's in a dank wood and both parties are fully clothed.
After failing to comprehend this, I find a channel featuring an accordion player performing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, before finally reaching the late night adult channel, which annouces in serous tones, "What was the greatest TV series ever? Was it Pride and Prejudice? Was it Mansfield Park? Of course not, it was Topless Darts!"
I love this country.
I started the evening with a TV series about a stage magician's assistant who doubles as an amateur detective solving the kind of crimes that could only be committed by magicians. There are two murders to solve, one of which takes place on a film set in a stately home in a locked room, and the other in the dungeon of a Scottish castle where Bloody Mary used to martyr Protestants.
Then, after deciding that it is once again too late to try to understand 24, I channel-hop and find a sex scene in Welsh. Of course, since it takes place in Wales, it's in a dank wood and both parties are fully clothed.
After failing to comprehend this, I find a channel featuring an accordion player performing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, before finally reaching the late night adult channel, which annouces in serous tones, "What was the greatest TV series ever? Was it Pride and Prejudice? Was it Mansfield Park? Of course not, it was Topless Darts!"
I love this country.
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Date: 2003-08-16 04:58 pm (UTC)LMAO at Welsh sex scene..i think it was a bad impersonation, i think its missing a sheep.
this is Sky you are watching, i recommend History channel and BBC News 24, kept me awake through most of those long academic nights
Sameen
Not only for geeks
Date: 2003-08-17 02:25 am (UTC)No, I'm not watching Sky, except early evening for the Buffy reruns and the Simpsons. This was mainly BBC, though not, one presumes, the topless darts part.
I get the History Channel back in Turkey as well - good stuff.
Re: Not only for geeks
Date: 2003-08-18 02:34 am (UTC)The show was "Jonathan Creek" (http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0118363). (Sorry, couldn't find a BBC link for that one.)
It was a reasonably recent episode, which meant he's more of a caricature of himself than he used to be. (Like Alasdair McGowan's impression of him.) Definitely worth watching some of the older ones, though, with Caroline Quentin.
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Date: 2003-08-18 06:32 am (UTC)LOL , ROFL , LMAO!!!!
brilliant...
er..hang on, they show topless darts on mainstream..er....what the hell is going on in the UK..
I love watching stuff I saw before in another language..last year i saw Braveheart all in German..Mel Gibson's Scottish accent was actually better :))))) :P
Sameen