[pressgang] Douglas is Cancelled

[Matt Saunders]

Thanks Vince - I love that you're still here. :-)

Well, Douglas is Cancelled took me on a journey I didn't expect ...

I was ready to give up in the first episode and almost didn't bother
finishing it!  Came back to it a couple of weeks later and binged the
final three during which you find out what it's *really* about, by way
of an absolute tour-de-force from Karen Gillan - including her being
even more Lynda Day than she was in the Amy Pond days.

Haunting, twisty and sublime ... one of Moffat's finest.  Go watch it if
you haven't already.


On Jun 21, Vince Deehan wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Great to hear from you. The Boss!
> 
> I too read that article and am really looking forward to Steven Moffat's new
> show.
> 
> I don't think we can judge Press Gang harshly for not having any gay
> characters,
> as almost no TV shows did back then. Off the top of my head, I don't recall any
> gay characters on TV in those days.
> 
> It really was a very long time ago. Thirty five years since the broadcast of
> series 1, in 1989.
> 
> Vince Deehan
> 
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> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 2:19 PM Matt Saunders <matts at yoyo.org> wrote:
> 
>     Steven Moffat's newest creation is on ITV in the UK next week:
> 
>     https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/17/
>     douglas-is-cancelled-hugh-bonneville-alex-kingston-steven-moffat-cancel-comedy
> 
>     I'm looking forward to this (as ever with anything that the Moff
>     writes!) - hoping for typical Moff cleverness and humour.
> 
>     There's a small mention of PG in the article - Steven's regret about the
>     lack of gay characters.  With hindsight, the imposition of a
>     heteronormative love life on every key character at some point in the
>     show feels clumsy in today's world, but would including some gay
>     representation more than 30 years ago have felt token?  I don't think so
>     but interested in what others think.
> 
> 
>     Matt.
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