"This Life" returns after 10 years

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Nov 2006, 21:08

Woo hoo, pity it's not a new series:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5364990.stm

Does anyone remember this cracking TV show back in 1996/1997 with as fond memories as I do? It was so well written and great fun to watch.

It then only lasted 2 series

. The BBC cocked up big style by realising to late how popular it had become and the cast had already got contracts elsewhere.

p.s - Series 1 and 2 are airing again on BBC2 oddly late at night though (around 11).

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Nov 2006, 21:35

It was shit back then, I hated it.

It only got watched by people becuase of the sex, that was the ONLY reason.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Nov 2006, 22:40

Not just the sex, course language too and unflinching plots. I thought it was very well written anyway.

I didn't expect you to like it, it's mainstream TV and British. Enough said. If it were American you'd probably have loved it.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 11 Nov 2006, 14:09

You really do talk shite

where its from has nothing at all to do with anything.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 12 Nov 2006, 11:14

I remember hearing about how it was absolute hot shit in England, but it felt utterly boring when I tried to watch it. Then again I was like 12/13 at the time though. It followed in the grand British TV tradition of "ending far too early/ending while we're on top".

I don't know why you poms are so afraid of a show's quality going down hill. I mean you have no problem prolonging utter garbage like Coronation St and Eastenders for fifty-thousand decades, but god forbid a genuinely good series runs for longer than two seasons, each one only being six episodes long.