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December 2007
 

Flight of the Conchords

Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie
  • Posted at 4:08pm
  • 06 December 2007
  • by AlisonGraham-RT
  • 11 comments

Every week I've dared myself to sit through an entire episode of Flight of the Conchords (Tuesday, BBC4). I rarely get very far. Seconds after the title sequence I'm overwhelmed by a restlessness that fatally undermines my resolve.

Flight of the Conchords makes my teeth itch, it makes my scalp want to get up and walk around the room, it makes my eyes want to poke themselves out.

I had such high hopes, too. I enjoy pastiches, if they are done well, and I'd heard Flight of the Conchords' musical parodies were particularly fine. And they are. It's just that there aren't enough of them.

If...

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Why I Love...Cranford

Actresses Judi Dench, Lisa Dillon and Eileen Atkins
  • Posted at 4:19pm
  • 03 December 2007
  • by WilliamGallagher-RT
  • 6 comments

No guns, no car chases, no rushing to hospital. Part of Cranford's appeal is that it's different to every other drama, but I'm stuck to it like glue because it's alive. Vivid characters trying to be all English and polite while their fists are clenching from rage. Every nod of the head is perfectly correct etiquette but every eye is envious, plotting, snide.

It's the story of one year in a Cheshire market town of the 1840s - and it looks like every town in every BBC costume drama, chiefly because it is. Filmed in Lacock, Wiltshire, it's made by most of the same people behind 1995's perfect...

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