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Topic History of: The Office - 10 Years On Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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andrew
i always treat Shamless as a issue of Viz. Wish Smashie and Nicey did a movie the Enfield sketch.
Anyone remember the sketch where they were jealous of each other awards ?
Prunella Minge
The great confidence trick Gervais pulled was to link his show with Fawlty Towers. 'Fawlty Towers finished after two series and it's a classic. We plan to finish after two series'. Immediately he was hailed as high minded. 'Yus My Dear' starring Arthur Mullard ended after two series. Loads of awful sitcoms ended after two series. Quite a few great sitcoms went on for many series. It's a specious argument. But some fools bought it. The Office was great, but Extras went mad after one series and still won a mass of awards. He's a great PR man.
JK2006
The world has gone bonkers and I saw it coming (am I allowed to use that word?).
In The Know
veritas wrote: ..dying to see what they do with Skins.
Ban it looks most likely !
Advertisers already threatening to pull the plug ?
It amazed me how much of the concept of The Office & the David Brent character seems to have come from this
Shameless is gloriously OTT, but in many ways cruely accurate (though cartoonified) portrayal of life on Northern sink estates. It has bathos & pathos in equal measure