North Square C4 Posted Thu Nov 2 16:41:18 GMT 2000 by 'Legal Brief'

Anyone seen this new legal drama? I watched the latest episode having read some very favourable previews. It was bad. Attempts at elliptical dialogue, which ended up thuddingly obvious. Horrible slip-slidey camera-work as seen in 'This Life'. Some very bad acting (not all, though). Very similar in stories and characters to C5's brilliant 'Wing and a Prayer' (which they axed - too good, I suspect) but trying to be trendy and daring. Even Ally McBeal is better.


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Posted By 'Jon' on Thu Nov 2 16:45:01 GMT 2000:

I saw a trailer, and could have sworn it had John Craven in it. Is he?

The trouble with this sort of thing is that the writers spend about a month or 2 shadowing these people to get all the detailed background, and then feel they have to dump it into the script at odd moments (cf. Attachments).


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Posted By 'Legal Brief' on Thu Nov 2 16:49:30 GMT 2000:

It wasn't John Craven. It was oh what his name? He was in that football hooligan play 'The Firm' as Yeti. What is his name? Philip Davis, I think.


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Posted By 'Stuart O' on Thu Nov 2 17:08:31 GMT 2000:

Looks like that guy out of that other thing. You know............JT Walsh. No, no.....Gary Busey.


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Posted By 'Legal Brief' on Thu Nov 2 17:15:41 GMT 2000:

Did you like 'North Square', Stuart O?


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Posted By 'Stuart O' on Thu Nov 2 17:26:10 GMT 2000:

I've completely failed to watch it, merely through personal incompetence. The trailers look interesting though.

I liked The Cops, but not This Life or Attachments. Is that any guide?


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Posted By 'Jon' on Thu Nov 2 17:28:31 GMT 2000:

Attachments is entertaining, but don't take any of it seriously.


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Posted By 'Stuart O' on Thu Nov 2 17:35:14 GMT 2000:

I hear too many techies (including me) talking bullshit all day to go home and watch a bunch of actors doing the same. If they stopped trying to drop words like "IP stack" and "open source" into it I might watch it more.


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Posted By 'paul twist' on Thu Nov 2 19:13:01 GMT 2000:

Just working in an office makes me not want to watch Attachments. After spending all day there I don't really want to watch another one on TV.


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Posted By 'Al' on Thu Nov 2 19:19:58 GMT 2000:

>Just working in an office makes me not want to watch Attachments. After spending all day there I don't really want to watch another one on TV.

This is similar to my feelings on 'This Life' - aren't there enough cunts about in real life without having to sit down and watch them on TV when you get home?


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Posted By 'Radiator Head Child' on Thu Nov 2 19:59:35 GMT 2000:

Exactly the problem with Big Brother


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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Thu Nov 2 22:04:00 GMT 2000:

The writers on Attachments have been ordered to put less technical / computer crap in next series and more character driven stuff, pushing the internet background into... well, into the background.
That's because the geek speak has attracted exactly the audience profile you'd expect (20something computer boys) which isn't enough to keep the BBC2 viewing figures wallahs happy.
Watch that space...


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Posted By 'Al' on Thu Nov 2 23:31:05 GMT 2000:

>The writers on Attachments have been ordered to put less technical / computer crap in next series and more character driven stuff, pushing the internet background into... well, into the background.
>That's because the geek speak has attracted exactly the audience profile you'd expect (20something computer boys) which isn't enough to keep the BBC2 viewing figures wallahs happy.
>Watch that space...

Uhhh? What are they on at BBC2?
"Yeah lets make a drama about dotcom entrepreneurs. And make it really realistic. With all the right jargon and everything."
"Who will watch it though?"
"Oh I dunno. But I can't see any of those nerdy computer geeks being into a show all about people who work with computers..."

I mean, JESUS.


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