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Post by Windy Miller on Aug 26, 2016 18:15:29 GMT
You beat me too it Windy was just about to post this buddy.  Good little write up from the BBC site there but interesting that Peter Flannery changed Episode 1 and there were some home truth's mentioned there about having no place for these sort of drama's on British TV at the moment...  I agree it is a good piece on OFITN. I hope people take the time to read the article because it is a bit lengthy. It is very disappointing and a sad reflection on the political interference that the BBC face today, that they are too cautious to commission drama like this. As Peter Flannery said, "What I call 'panto dramas' like Doctor Who and Sherlock are massively entertaining and popular, but the broad church doesn't seem to be there anymore. There's no room for an Our Friends in the North  |
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Post by Dirty Epic on Aug 29, 2016 20:13:14 GMT
They're some good points that Christopher Eccleston and Peter Flannery put about 'Panto Drama' in that piece. Yes there's a place for the genteel, nice and retro but likewise there's (should be) a place for the relevant, contemporary and hard hitting things like OFITN etc which makes you think rather than switch off and for me a lot of British drama from BBC/ITV especially the period stuff is for me very sterile, contrived and delivers convenient television rather than something which could be interesting or at worst takes risks which British TV used to do and do well!  |
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Post by Windy Miller on Jan 20, 2021 16:05:25 GMT
Article in The Guardian today commemorating 25 years since this excellent drama was first shown :-
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Post by Cartman on Jan 20, 2021 19:40:03 GMT
Excellent programme, watched it when it was on in 1995/6, Grouty from Porridge was in it too.
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Post by Bojan Scores on Jan 23, 2021 15:29:10 GMT
Definitely my favourite TV from the 90s. It certainly made political points and ones that weren’t flattering to either Labour or Conservative. In that respect it’s superior than today’s telly as I’d suspect it would be overtly preaching, biased and almost like propaganda. It’s a lesson in left leaning drama. I watched it in January 1996 and you just couldn’t wait for the next episode. The sequence in the mining village as the metropolitan police ran riot was particularly meaningful to me, coming from a mining town.
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Post by Three Litre on Jan 23, 2021 19:00:04 GMT
Definitely my favourite TV from the 90s. It certainly made political points and ones that weren’t flattering to either Labour or Conservative. In that respect it’s superior than today’s telly as I’d suspect it would be overtly preaching, biased and almost like propaganda. It’s a lesson in left leaning drama. I watched it in January 1996 and you just couldn’t wait for the next episode. The sequence in the mining village as the metropolitan police ran riot was particularly meaningful to me, coming from a mining town. Interesting to read your views Bojan. Amazing to think the miners strike was almost 40 years ago! |
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Post by Peter Picard on Oct 8, 2023 16:07:09 GMT
Inside Austin Donohue's office :- ![]()  Model of the Willow Lane flats on the table by the window
The Willow Lane flats were Cruddas Park flats as seen in the opening titles of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads.
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Good little write up from the BBC site there but interesting that Peter Flannery changed Episode 1 and there were some home truth's mentioned there about having no place for these sort of drama's on British TV at the moment... 
