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I saw those programmes. My missus tricked me into it by accusing me of being blinkered in my outlook because I refuse to watch ITV. It's nice to have the occasional reminder as to why I set these limitations.

I felt that both programmes were very poor. Wallpaper for being little more than a shoddy cavalcade of old, old jokes and attitudes (it's like Drop the Dead Donkey never happened) and then Echo Beach for being the closest thing to TV suicide I have ever seen. The intitial programme sets it up as a poorly made, poorly acted, rushed together excuse of a show whose only ambition is to titilate and compete in awards ceremonies. This is what is then delivered. Can an audience really be told something is rubbish and then be shown that rubbish for half an hour? Can they be expected to sit through it? Apparently they can on ITV.

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algy wrote:

Well it wouldn't do for us all to be the same but I would recomemd that you get hold of Drop The Dead Donkey from somewhere.

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algy wrote:

I saw those programmes. My missus tricked me into it by accusing me of being blinkered in my outlook because I refuse to watch ITV. It's nice to have the occasional reminder as to why I set these limitations.

I felt that both programmes were very poor. Wallpaper for being little more than a shoddy cavalcade of old, old jokes and attitudes (it's like Drop the Dead Donkey never happened) and then Echo Beach for being the closest thing to TV suicide I have ever seen. The intitial programme sets it up as a poorly made, poorly acted, rushed together excuse of a show whose only ambition is to titilate and compete in awards ceremonies. This is what is then delivered. Can an audience really be told something is rubbish and then be shown that rubbish for half an hour? Can they be expected to sit through it? Apparently they can on ITV.

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I have to disagree. To me it's done very well, yeah Echo Beach is a little amateurish but it works.

Today watched Primeval series 2 ep 1:
Dr Who has Met Jurrassic Park and walking with dinosaurs and it is goooooooooood.

Can't wait for next month when Skins series 2 is released on Ch.4!

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algy wrote:

I saw those programmes. My missus tricked me into it by accusing me of being blinkered in my outlook because I refuse to watch ITV. It's nice to have the occasional reminder as to why I set these limitations.

I felt that both programmes were very poor. Wallpaper for being little more than a shoddy cavalcade of old, old jokes and attitudes (it's like Drop the Dead Donkey never happened) and then Echo Beach for being the closest thing to TV suicide I have ever seen. The intitial programme sets it up as a poorly made, poorly acted, rushed together excuse of a show whose only ambition is to titilate and compete in awards ceremonies. This is what is then delivered. Can an audience really be told something is rubbish and then be shown that rubbish for half an hour? Can they be expected to sit through it? Apparently they can on ITV.

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I have to disagree. To me it's done very well, yeah Echo Beach is a little amateurish but it works.

Today watched Primeval series 2 ep 1:
Dr Who has Met Jurrassic Park and walking with dinosaurs and it is goooooooooood.

Can't wait for next month when Skins series 2 is released on Ch.4!

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I didn't watch Echo Beach or its apparently related drama Moving Wallpaper because I thought (quite rightly, I'm sure) that they would be crap; Echo Beach is, after all, a soap! And, as Algy pointed out, it is ITV.

Primeval, I have to say, is fun to watch so long as you leave your brains in the bathroom. In reality, MI5 or MI6 or whichever agency is in charge would maybe have the main character, Dr whoever he is, onboard as an advisor, but the others wouldn't even get a look-in - they're all too dumb, not to mention shallow. It's scriptwriting by numbers: cliched and predictable, yet somehow manages to be brainless, harmless fun. Maybe it's because I like dinosaurs

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