Nope, sorry. Sex In The City is an abomination. As bad as This Life but with added shitty ''jokes' that are supposed to be revealing and insightful about relationships. You'd learn more about sex and relationships from a repeat run of Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch! than this cack. And again - another series with completely self-obsessed, selfish, hateful characters - why? Don't we get to meet enough arseholes in real life?

wow you really take your escapist life seriously!

Yes, this abominable pile of shite should be binned, along with those walking corpses 'Friends' and as for Ally Mc'FuckingBeal, doooon't get me started. It's all glossy, overproduced bollocks, without a shred of credibility or meaning. I'm all for escapism but these programmes are taking the piss.
If C4 have any sense they'll replace all of the above with repeats of Oz until they can find/make something decent.

Hello Suii, trust you had a good holiday? Ally McBeal just reminds me of those Pepsi ads.

I fancy the ginger one.

Hiya Gee! i'm just about recovered from my holiday, I think I'm just getting too old not to eat or sleep for a week *lol* My next expedition (camping in a field and hiking across the region eep!) is planned for very soon!
McBeal reminds me of a stick my dog once brought home, but more chewed looking and with less character.

But the brunette is soooooooooo cute.

I dunno, I think it's quite funny and the performances are good. OK, it's incredibly unrealistic, but that's American sitcoms for you. It *did* feature the world's first primetime "ejaculation-into-the-face" sequence.

And the brunette is soooooooooo cute.

Perhaps that's because she was cast as 'the cute brunette'.

>But the brunette is soooooooooo cute.
>
I actually do fancy the ginger one, but so what? If I want to see her I'll go to one of those dodgy websites.

>I dunno, I think it's quite funny and the performances are good.

You could say the same for 'On the Buses', but it would still be shit.

>OK, it's incredibly unrealistic, but that's American sitcoms for you. It *did* feature the world's first primetime "ejaculation-into-the-face" sequence.
>
Yes, with the most unrealistic semen since Noggin the Nog (I should be keel-hauled for that joke). Anyway, since when did an old man's spunk justify the existence of a shit comedy?

>And the brunette is soooooooooo cute.
See above.

It seems British TV can't treat HBO shows according to quality. S&C is shit. 'The Sopranos' is good, but incredibly overrated. Both are put on prime time. Yet 'Oz' and 'Larry Sanders' two contenders for the title of Best American Television Programme Ever Made are stuck in the graveyard zone.

And another thing...

I think everyone should send in a not-very-interesting sexual quirk/aversion/problem with a related story ('with hilarious consequences' [c] TV Times 1933). Eventually will find that it has written an entire new season of 'Sex and the City' and we can flog it to HBO.

Nice one!
BTW Adebisi, what I've always wanted to know is how your little woolly hat stays on the side of your head like that, is it glued on?

On a serious note it is an absolute frigging disgrace the way Oz is treated by C4. When I've gone on about it to mates they haven't got a clue what I'm talking about, then they see one episode and are hooked. C4 could pull in an absolutely huge audience for it, but instead they peddle a load of wank like Sex and the City, which does pretty poorly in the ratings.

I liked Oz.

I got rather turned on by the whole thing.

Ally McSkank needs to try out a couple more expressions for her incredibly irritating, bland face, I've never bothered watching SATC, and I once sat through an episode of Friends, but it wasn't my own choice. And anyway, I paid for it later by being violently sick into a bowl.

It's clear to me that there are only a few truly excellent American shows, and we all know what they are.

See, John only saw one episode of Oz and loved it. Unfortunately it was the last ep. of the season. He was very excited by it too, I got up and watched it in a different room in the end!!

Yeah, it's awful. Everything else has been said. Why aren't C4...

a) Re-running Dream On (much, much funnier, especially the first couple of series)
b) Re-running The Sopranos
c) Buying Futurama
d) Buying Seinfeld/The Simpsons off the BBC and putting it on at a decent time.

I think Channel 4 already have the rights to Futurama - they're probably waiting for the new Autumn schedules.

If that is true, then the BBC will truly look utterly stupid if Channel 4 start showing it this Autumn.

>If that is true, then the BBC will truly look utterly stupid if Channel 4 start showing it this Autumn.
>
The BBc will probably also look stupid when Channel 4 start showing the, Buffy The vampire Slayer spin-off, Angel in the Autumn. It's designed to run simultaneoulsy with series 4 on Buffy, whicvh BBC" haven't really got a hope of showing in time.

Maybe, just maybe, it'll make the BBC take a good, long look at itself.

And kill itself in a fit of grief.

LONDON July, 2000.

The once respected and popular public broadcaster the BBC was found dead in its one bedroom flat in North London last night. Police are not ruling out foul play, but suicide looks like the probable cause of death, as the BBC was found suspended from a light fitting by numerous strands of VT, believed to be from episodes of Ground Force, Jim Davidson Presents, and This Life. The first officer described a distressing, but strangely calm scene, as the BBC rotated gradually clockwise, displaying a pattern resembling the nations of the world. The BBC leaves behind several million licence payers and John Birt. It was 84.

In tribute to the BBC, some of its best loved moments will be screened continuously on digital and satellite TV later tonight and forevermore.

<snigger>

<roflmao>

I'm going to write a tribute song!

Thank you Elton. I'm sure everyone agrees that had you sung: you would have made this sad occasion a miserable one.

"Goodbye BBC
Though no-one ever viewed you at all..."

I going to said a letter to the Pope to get the BBC (R.I.P) canonised - it truly was 'the people's channel'(literally - we paid for it).

But EastEnders now gets 11 million viewers! The BBC has never been healthier!

Don't let the fact that it used to get 20 million confuse you.

And all those brilliant, innovative, groundbreaking programmes like....er.....no, sorry.

The Best of Jim Davidson's Generation Game.

<throws TV out of window>

That must last about till the end of the title sequence

Though seriously - when you look at the other main channel, whose name I won't mention, as I can't bear to type those 3 terrible letters, I.....T......No I can't do it!!! - The BBC is wonderful, we take it for granted

What I can't understand is why the BBC keep throwing my CVs in the bin. Bastards sent me a bin-liner and told me to throw my CVs in it, as it would save me the cost of the post. Mind you, Tescos did the same thing and I was only after a job moving boxes. I don't know laying in bed all day, living off the bank loans which come in the post, it's no life really

But that kind of existence is what Suiii and I aspire to.

You are our role model Gee. Tell us more of how we can acheive your status?

We can't help it if we love life so much that we don't want to work.

Returning to SATC, I was letting my "aunt" (or rather "aock") rule my comedy due to my obsession with the brunette. I must admit there are other far worthier series that should have been shown in its place. At least it's not actively offensive like Babes In The Wood, though.

Perhaps it could have made a passable TV movie type thing, but to serialise it, and str-e-e-e-e-tch it out interminably is a disgrace.

And, let's face it, if that's America's most risque TV series, then they'll all drop dead when QAF is shown over there.

You think?? Cool, that would leave all that land free for us!

I think SATC *is* actively offensive - I won't repeat what I've already said about it earlier on the thread, but am I the only one who's disappointed that now it's OK to be more frank about sex on TV we get series like this which whilst appearing radical and risque just rehash 'Men are from Mars...'/'The Rules' type bollocks about male and female behaviour? The good thing about QAF (from what little I saw) was that it actually tried to look honestly at the interactions of the characters as human relationships, rather than just saying 'Look! Gay people! Shagging! Pretty cool huh?'

That's why I'm glad that RTD is having input over the US version of QAF, otherwise it would be "Eww look, queers" or "So *thats* what they get up to"

Is he having much input?

He's said he could if he wanted, but he wants to leave them to do it as they want.

I believe he's acting as an unofficial script advisor, to help the poor loves out if they get stuck!

Ah well.

We'll see it on Channel 4 soon enough.

>And, let's face it, if that's America's most risque TV series, then they'll all drop dead when QAF is shown over there.


It seems North Americans are full of pent-up frustration.
I know for a fact that bootlegged copies of QAF were selling for $50 in Canada.

Sex and the Shitty is cbviously an outlet.

But not a very effective one, obviously.