[pressgang] Douglas is Cancelled

Sun Jul 21 14:31:35 BST 2024

I live in the UK and am watching it on ITV1.

Vince Deehan

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 12:27 PM Pamela L <pjmdolphin at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I love Quarter to Midnight, I think I might even have to call it my
> favourite episode.
>
> Where are you all watching Douglas is Cancelled? Anyone from Australia
> know how to access it?
>
> Pam
>
> On 21 Jul 2024, at 18:28, Vince Deehan <vince.deehan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> I just finished watching the last episode of DOUGLAS IS CANCELLED.
>
> The first two episodes were really good, but it's episode three where the
> show really lifts off.
> I won't say what happens, but it's essentially a two-hander episode with
> just two characters
> in one location.
>
> Steven's writing is superb and the acting is excellent, especially Karen
> Gillan who was
> simply amazing in a highly complex role which she pulled off with great
> skill.
>
> The end credit scenes with the car driver talking into his dictaphone were
> really
> funny. He doesn't say much but the actor's use of long pauses were really
> amusing.
>
> I know that Matt liked it, but has anyone else here seen it.
>
> On an unrelated note, I had difficulty getting to sleep a few nights ago,
> and decided
> on a whim to dig out a Press Gang DVD. I chose the Series 4 episode
> 'A Quarter to Midnight'. I could not have enjoyed it more. Just brilliant!
>
> I did find it funny that the team were having a very late night restaurant
> meal
> at around 11pm. Do many restaurants serve meals past 11pm? A minor point
> really. You can hear Colin say something like "Can I have another Vimto,
> please waiter"
> and Julie says "Can I have another Diet Coke". I guess it would be a bit
> difficult
> to have characters on a show screened in the children's TV slot, ordering
> alcoholic drinks!
>
> The way Julia Sawalha shows her increasing desperation as the air is
> running out, is a testament
> to her superb acting skills.
>
> I get the impression that Julia rarely seems to do any acting these days,
> I don't know why. Though I notice she did appear in a recent
> episode of the TV drama VERA. Season 13, episode 2.
>
> Vince Deehan
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 11:43 PM Matt Saunders <matts at yoyo.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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>> >
>> >
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