Rich mate, if this is true then can you get me a date with Nadia? *lol* What a babe!!

Oh Suiii, have you no shame?

Sadly no.

I think it's great!

I was wasting my life one night last year watching Gaby Roslin presenting some joyless, badly-researched guff about TV nostalgia. Special guest was Julia Sawalha, and they reviewed her career. Obviously, they orchestrated an audience laugh for Press Gang (haha! something you did years ago, very amusing). Presumably, the programme makers of this soulless heap of arse either never saw it, or are vehemently jealous of a worthwhile programme.

Is any channel ever going to repeat Press Gang? Does anyone know if there's a reason why no-one's taken it on board? I know Channel 5 won't do it, because it was Dawn Airey who axed it in the first place. But for God's sake - Channel 4 on Sunday mornings. why won't they do it?

Press Gang reminds me of the school newspaper I help set up. Right On was very popular. We had a circulation of hundreds thanks to the local skinheads who delivered it for us. They often slipped in one of their own leaflets for good measure. With their help we were able to draw really huge audiences to school shows. However I can remember one silly incident in which Man Friday was booed during the school's production of Robinson Crusoe. Nevertheless my days on Right On were the happiest days of my life. During my 8 weeks as editor the magazine change beyond recognition. This was because I let everyone have got at the writng. Although I do regret asking Mr Wilson, Chairman of the PTA, whose racy story ended up which him serving a 6 year prison sentence as well as the removal of hundreds of photographs from his home.

I never actually watched Press Gang.

Surely you know that Nickolodean picked it up? They had it on everyday a while back not sure if they've shown it in recent times.

>Surely you know that Nickolodean picked it up? They had it on everyday a while back not sure if they've shown it in recent times.

They did, you're right, I'd forgotten about that, although I heard that they cut it to ribbons (now there's a surprise), and didn't even air some of the episodes that they thought were unsuitable.

How can episodes of Press Gang be deemed 'unsuitable', in what way? Too cheesy?
Anyone remember the story where Lynda gets trapped in a vault where there isn't much air and her mobile phone's broken and she keeps phoing Spike who can't hear anything she says, and through the incredibleness of TV plots, he realises it must be Lynda's cry for help and he somehow realises she's in the vault, get's there, but can't overide the timer, he slumps down in front of it and just then the timer pings and the door opens and everything's alright.

Can't remember where the newspaper comes into this though...

>How can episodes of Press Gang be deemed 'unsuitable', in what way? Too cheesy?

For starters, I'm pretty sure that the two-parter on child abuse "Something Terrible" (from second series in 1990) was omitted from the Nickolodeon run. Apparently they didn't show the very final episode "There Are Crocodiles..." (the drugs fable one)either.

Surprised on two counts really.

1) That this thread turned into one about Press Gang plots

2) That Rich didn't pop up to give us the t/f nod on this. Mind you, presumably he doesn't spend as much time on his computer any more. If you know what I mean, eh? Eh? EH?

Love is ephemeral. Besides she's only using him to make me jealous. Julia knows the dole are back dating my claim. She knows there's a £250 giro on its way.

This Herring and Sawalla" so called" relationship is so fake.Ive heard that FAITH IN THE FUTURE was re- released on video recently,coincidence? or was Julia trying to increase sales by going out with someone else off the telly,for publicity and all that?Herring is only going out with her because he fancies girls.The whole thing makes me sick to the pit of my stomach!!
I give them nineteen years ,three months and then the whole thing will be seen as the sham it is.

That posting makes a lot of sense when you think about it for just a second.
Rumbled.

So is she a bit dirty then? Come on, spill the beans!

I bet averyone else thought of posting a similar message when they saw RH had replied, but then thought better of it.

But cheers anyway Peter.

My own personal question was, of course, whether he got to go the the premiere of Chicken Run(?) or not

Who cares? I suggest you watch the re-runs of 'This Life'. Some nice relationship bait to feed your daydreaming.

The idea of This Life ever being associated with the words 'nice' or 'daydream' is bizarre. Screaming nightmarish hell on earth perhaps or endless self-indulgent tedium maybe. It should only be watched at viewer's own risk.

Oh you're just anti-popularist. I am weary of your sort, you're usually the type that secretly listens to gaudy pop.

I'm not anti-popularist - honest! In fact one of my colleagues accused me of being a 'crass popularist' once.

One of the reasons I hate TL is because it became the 'darling' of the broadsheets (esp Grauniad and Observer), it was regarded as better than populist soaps or dramas like Coronation Street for example, when it was actually shite.

I do like gaudy pop and I don't care who knows!!!

You could give me a long list of things people have called you all of which I'm sure will have been wobbily editted to skew the truth - 'This Life-esque' you could say. Only with the immense swearing removed.

Don't you realise it? You are a walking post-modern soap plot. Someone so embittered they form their opinions rebelling against their own force-read articles.

I'll bet you enjoyed listening to Capital FM as you created your scrapbook of 'This Life' related articles.

All right, no need to get nasty - I just hate This Life OK? I have my reasons - and I don't see how objecting to newspaper articles make me part of a 'post-modern soap plot' - in that case the whole damn SOTCA site is part of a 'post-modern soap plot'.

Anyway, I doth protest too much...

We are digressing.The Sawalha/Herring con of the century is still CONtiuing and not one of the tabloids have picked up on this con yet(Except in this weeks NOW mag who fell hook line and stinker for The Avalon "Rich and Ju as lovers spin".)
Con on a stick!....Harvey Nixed !

The fact that Ms Sawalhaha is doing some voice work in Chicken Run isn't by some amazing chance connected to this?........a little spot of PR before the film release.....

You stupid tits.

short, succinct , to the point
well said RH.

and about This Life: I think its mainly watched by 30yr olds in mid life crisisis.

>short, succinct , to the point
>well said RH.

STOP HERRING SUCKING you APE!

He's not single.

Surely if it was publicity she was after she'd be going out with Jonny Lee Miller or one of that lot - going out with Richard Herring doesn't exactly get you on the front page of OK! magazine, it just gets you bitched about in SOTCAA... I can't see her agent getting moist over *that* prospect...

Oh Come on Mr Rich ,Mrs Julia,How do you sleep at night?Split up now if you want to retain any dignity from this sordid PR scam cooked up by you and Mr Stewart.

You'll notice that no newspaper chose to run a picture of me and Julia arriving at the Chicken Run premiere together (although I think you might be able to see part of my arm in the Express)
What a stunning publicity stunt this has all turned out to be.

What is more disturbing is the amount of people on this forum choosing to think of you conducting in sexual activity. Shame on you all! Sex is a beautiful and private affair PR or not PR devised.

P.S An arm is all it takes!

Rich done:

>You'll notice that no newspaper chose to run a picture of me and Julia arriving at the Chicken Run premiere together

You mean, "Julia arriving and me running and standing next to her when the flash photography started". Is there a new series of Fist Of Fun in production or something?

>(although I think you might be able to see part of my arm in the Express). What a stunning publicity stunt this has all turned out to be.

Oh, hang on. It's not another series of Friday Night Armistice is it?

C'mon, Rich. I fancy this actress bird and I want to get in there. What are your top tips for pulling class tottie? Oh, and if Julia is lying disconsolately on your damp, KFC-encrusted mattress, aimlessly fingering the rotten plaster walls whilst you stare into the livid PC monitor and tap-tap-tap at the skeletal keyboard, do say "coo-ee!" from all of us.

And no tips like "get a TV series and bang on and on about someone with a sort of wall/shrine to them". I've already tried that.

Aw, fuck, you'll be going out with The Corrs next.

Cheerio

Steve

Say, didn't she date Keith Allen? What a very lucky lady!