NH
Ahem!
"Don't prod it", as somebody rather famous once said!
And I DEFINITELY wouldn't push your luck, new boy!
Nick Harvey
Founding member
DAS posted:
Is that how they say "tomorrow" down your way, Nick? I love that old western accent.
Ahem!
"Don't prod it", as somebody rather famous once said!
Cerulean Sunrise posted:
Why call it Sunderland's Burning when it's set in Middlesbrough?
And I DEFINITELY wouldn't push your luck, new boy!
KA
Ahem!
"Don't prod it", as somebody rather famous once said!
PLEASE don't take offence, but I've always had it in my head that you sound like Phil Harding from Time Team!
PS - After you've cremated me, please bury me somewhere with a view of the Humber Bridge!
Katherine
Founding member
Nick Harvey posted:
DAS posted:
Is that how they say "tomorrow" down your way, Nick? I love that old western accent.
Ahem!
"Don't prod it", as somebody rather famous once said!
PLEASE don't take offence, but I've always had it in my head that you sound like Phil Harding from Time Team!
PS - After you've cremated me, please bury me somewhere with a view of the Humber Bridge!
SC
I really enjoyed that first episode of Steel River Blues or "Borough's Burning". Please don't accuse a Teessider of being from Sunderland if you like your teeth intact!
Some witty one-liners and a reference to London's Burning in the script (so it seems that people in TV drama's DO watch other TV dramas!). Nice to see Libby Davison back on our screens.
Top quote:
"Mam, I'm 23 years old"
"Then go and buy yourself a house".
Some witty one-liners and a reference to London's Burning in the script (so it seems that people in TV drama's DO watch other TV dramas!). Nice to see Libby Davison back on our screens.
Top quote:
"Mam, I'm 23 years old"
"Then go and buy yourself a house".
NH
No way; I sound more like the interviewer. <wink>
Middlesborough, Sunderland, Cleethorpes, they're all north of Watford, aren't they?
Nick Harvey
Founding member
Katherine posted:
I've always had it in my head that you sound like Phil Harding from Time Team!
No way; I sound more like the interviewer. <wink>
Si-Co posted:
Please don't accuse a Teessider of being from Sunderland if you like your teeth intact!
Middlesborough, Sunderland, Cleethorpes, they're all north of Watford, aren't they?
:-(
A former member
Steel River Blues was derivative and uninspired. And yet another attempt by YTV to muscle in on the North East region.
Not to mention that the few "local" accents appeared to be nothing more than watered down Geordie/Sunderland twangs. Almost as offensive as calling the programme "Sunderland's Burning" really. Well Sunderland are welcome to this pile of crap as far as I am concerned.
Ignoramus
Not to mention that the few "local" accents appeared to be nothing more than watered down Geordie/Sunderland twangs. Almost as offensive as calling the programme "Sunderland's Burning" really. Well Sunderland are welcome to this pile of crap as far as I am concerned.
Quote:
Middlesborough
Ignoramus
NH
Ignoramus
Oh yes, a few too many vowels.
I forgot they couldn't even spell when you got that far north!
Mind you, a few miles further up and it's been corrupted right down to "burgh"!
Nick Harvey
Founding member
jason posted:
Quote:
Middlesborough
Ignoramus
Oh yes, a few too many vowels.
I forgot they couldn't even spell when you got that far north!
Mind you, a few miles further up and it's been corrupted right down to "burgh"!
:-(
A former member
Don't worry, I'm sure the Leeds-based producers spell it "Middlesborough" as well 
NH
Nick Harvey
Founding member
Meanwhile, back at the plot.
Doc Martin was excellent and very entertaining. I shall definitely be back for more next week. What a pity it didn't also get ninety minutes for the first episode, like the thing about somewhere uuuuuuuuuup north burning.
I gave up on the Bognor fiasco at half time. Are you supposed to hear the answers over the prats buzzing and ringing over everyone else's speech? Sorry Angus, but that one DOES deserve moving to four in the morning in the middle of the series.
Doc Martin was excellent and very entertaining. I shall definitely be back for more next week. What a pity it didn't also get ninety minutes for the first episode, like the thing about somewhere uuuuuuuuuup north burning.
I gave up on the Bognor fiasco at half time. Are you supposed to hear the answers over the prats buzzing and ringing over everyone else's speech? Sorry Angus, but that one DOES deserve moving to four in the morning in the middle of the series.
DA
ITV's decision to rekindle the firefighting antics of 1980s hit London's Burning paid off last night as new series Steel River Blues brought in nearly 6.5 million viewers.
The series about Middlesbrough firefighters got off to a glowing start, drawing 6.4 million viewers and a 31% share.
Stoked by a generally favourable reception from Fleet Street critics and the summer repeats, Steel River Blues proved itself to be a likely successor to Jack Rosenthal's original series.
London's Burning blazed across the small screen for 15 years after its launch as a series in 1998 before falling ratings of under 5m finally snuffed it out.
Whether a unified, more cost-conscious ITV can still stretch to the large scale, meticulously planned and elaborate fires which propelled London's Burning to ratings of over 16 million in 1994 is a moot point.
The switch to the north should cut down on expensive London location shooting, but the presence of the nearby petro-chemical industry and a nuclear power plant offers writer Patrick Harbison plenty of scope for large-scale and spectacular pyrotechnics.
For now, however, ITV seems to have the makings of a hit on its hands.
Though Steel River Blues lost around 800,000 viewers it inherited from The Bill - proving that back-to-back "uniform" dramas don't attract uniform audiences - it still beat BBC1's repeat of Harrison Ford action adventure Raiders of the Lost Ark.
That was from Media Guardian.
Steel River Blues was quite entertaining, but i found Doc Martin , much more entertaining, seeing as it was up some programmes, like the personality test on BBC One, which i don't think would have gathered many viewers, i think Doc Martin will be a hit. Great start.
The series about Middlesbrough firefighters got off to a glowing start, drawing 6.4 million viewers and a 31% share.
Stoked by a generally favourable reception from Fleet Street critics and the summer repeats, Steel River Blues proved itself to be a likely successor to Jack Rosenthal's original series.
London's Burning blazed across the small screen for 15 years after its launch as a series in 1998 before falling ratings of under 5m finally snuffed it out.
Whether a unified, more cost-conscious ITV can still stretch to the large scale, meticulously planned and elaborate fires which propelled London's Burning to ratings of over 16 million in 1994 is a moot point.
The switch to the north should cut down on expensive London location shooting, but the presence of the nearby petro-chemical industry and a nuclear power plant offers writer Patrick Harbison plenty of scope for large-scale and spectacular pyrotechnics.
For now, however, ITV seems to have the makings of a hit on its hands.
Though Steel River Blues lost around 800,000 viewers it inherited from The Bill - proving that back-to-back "uniform" dramas don't attract uniform audiences - it still beat BBC1's repeat of Harrison Ford action adventure Raiders of the Lost Ark.
That was from Media Guardian.
Steel River Blues was quite entertaining, but i found Doc Martin , much more entertaining, seeing as it was up some programmes, like the personality test on BBC One, which i don't think would have gathered many viewers, i think Doc Martin will be a hit. Great start.