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David Mitchell's TV favourites - Radio Times, April 2007 |
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The Peep Show star shares his current TV favourites with Alison Graham.
"I like Extras and I absolutely
love The Office, which is
probably not the way round that
Ricky Gervais would prefer, but
it's my honest reaction. Ricky
loves Peep Show [the sitcom in which Mitchell
co-stars with Robert Webb] and he's said fantastic
things at times when we've really needed people
to say good things just so we can get noticed.
But we've survived and a fifth series was
commissioned even before we'd finished filming
series four. So I've got a
bit of job security for the first time in my life!
I love CSI, but only the original version. I find
CSI: Miami a bit hard to watch, mainly because I
always think Horatio Caine [David Caruso] looks
like he thinks he's in a sketch. You sort of think, 'Is
he joking? Is his whole performance the joke of
the show?' He says things in such a weird voice,
you can't expect people to think it's real, surely.
Whereas Gil Grissom [William Petersen] in Vegas
CSI is fantastic - a real superhero figure like
Sherlock Holmes. It's fantastically shot as
well, and just looks so cool. It's the only thing
that's ever remotely made me want to go to
Las Vegas.
If I'm really
busy, I tend to
catch up with
things on DVD.
I've been
watching Bleak
House, which is
brilliant, and so
clever in the way
it manages to
keep the spirit of
the novel, yet it's
shot in such a
lively way, it feels real. I don't know whether
that's just the wobbly camera, but it almost feels
like a docudrama.
The performances are all
excellent and, in a strange way, it makes you
proud to be British, to know we can produce
something this good. I'd love to do something
where I could dress up. The problem with playing
Mark [Mitchell's nerdy character in Peep Show]
is that his clothes aren't very interesting. I don't
often find myself trying to persuade the
costume designer to let me keep anything.
BBC4 recently repeated Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,
Spy, which I adored. Its slowness in modern
television terms is almost insolent. Yet the
tension builds so fantastically. And Alec
Guinness is my favourite actor.
I watch The Simpsons whenever I can. I think
the best episodes are almost as funny as Fawlty
Towers, and the volume they
produce is amazing. I think it's
the best programme ever. I
love the characters - I just
want to be with them."
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Now take a look at our full Peep Show guide.
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