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Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 14 12:07 pm    Post subject: Blandings. Reply with quote
    

The second series of Blandings starts this coming Sunday at 6.30 pm on BBC One. I've seen the trailer of the Saddleback pig travelling in the open top car and I can't wait for Sunday. Its unashamedly my kind of entertainment.

Incidentally, on this day in 1975 the death of the writer, Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was announced. The writers career lasted for more than 70 years. He was a prolific writer and his works included novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics and many pieces of journalism.
He didn't hang about and managed fifteen plays and the lyrics for 250 songs that were used in his thirty musical comedies.
He'll be for ever remembered for having been the creator of Jeeves and Wooster but of course, he also wrote Sunday nights offering. Blandings. A fount of knowledge, that's what I am.

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 14 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I love the books but was less than impressed by the TV series

Bodger



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 14 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I just like the pigs.

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 14 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That goes without saying. I could have done with more pigs and fewer people

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 14 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i really like his j and w stuff ,as books or telly (especially fry n laurie style)

the blandings books are well observed the telly is a bit less cutting than the books

i recon he got caned for the nazi affiliation thing cos he was too accurate about the toffs of his time rather than his allegiances

fine chap imho ,proper observer and owt with pigs as the stars is ok by me

gardening-girl



Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.
PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 14 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Easy viewing for lazy Sunday evenings.

Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 14 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It raised one or two sniggers but all in all, I reckon that it was a bit pathetic.

robkb



Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 14 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bodger wrote:
all in all, I reckon that it was a bit pathetic.


I dunno, I thought Harry Enfield was on fine form

Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 14 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think that may have been one of the problems, he was so very obviously, Harry Enfield.

chickenlady



Joined: 18 Aug 2013
Posts: 413
Location: Dorset
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 14 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I just don't find it funny.

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