Ian Wolf
Sunday 13th April 2008 10:58am [Edited]
Stockton-on-Tees
2,839 posts
There is a neewspaper column that mentions Love Soup, or rather a pointless right-wing rant from Peter Hitchens in the Daily Mail (see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/mailonsunday.html?in_article_id=559223&in_page_id=1791&in_author_id=224) entitled, "The week they sowed the seeds of a British secret police" that mentions Love Soup.
* TV executives tell me that no mainstream channel can now show old episodes of The Sweeney because they are considered too violent. Interesting how tastes change.
Last week the BBC's supposedly gentle, quirky comedy Love Soup showed a suicide in which a woman's body thudded into the pavement and oozed blood and, shortly afterwards, a scene in which a dog has sex with a woman.
When did the taboos against such things dissolve, exactly?
How come this seriously strange programme has one of the most enviable slots on licence-funded terrestrial TV?
Still, at least we know that the central character, played by Tamsin Greig, is an OK person because she is shown reading The Guardian on her day off from her job as boss of a cosmetics counter.
What a c**t.