[pressgang] Douglas is Cancelled

Sun Jul 21 14:38:08 BST 2024

According to Google only Apple TV has it in Australia at the moment, so
nowhere this Android user can watch it legally.  Hopefully pops up
elsewhere soon.

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 11:32 PM Vince Deehan <vince.deehan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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