I do recommend getting it. In fact, I have a spare copy I could do you for cheap. I can't really think of a show quite like it, so it takes a few episodes to get into it. It somehow manages to come across as serious, whilst at the same time taking the piss out of itself and being about as spoof-y as possible. Very interesting if only to assess the style of it.
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Quote: Aaron @ September 9 2008, 11:29 AM BSTBadge, are we about to agree on something again?
I think we agree more often than either of us is really comfortable with.
I haven't seen Brass for ages but I watched it when it first came out and it was great. And you have described it's curious style very well, though you could have added that it's kind of a northern spoof of "Dallas".
A sign of how good it is: the guy who played Don Brennan so badly in Coronation Street is actually very good in this.
Oh, and there are plenty of heaving bosoms.
Quote: Badge @ September 9 2008, 11:52 PM BSTOh, and there are plenty of heaving bosoms.
Always nicely indicative of a classy show
Why not call him... Derek.
A great show last night on a fondly remembered sitcom. One of the best in my opinion. Not on next week though.
That was a great line. I'm thinking that there wasn't any comic irony to be had in the name "Derek".
I know. I strangley found myself giggling at the point where Ian Wright said Derek.
I thought he was a bloody odd person to have on in the first place! Typical ITV though really, isn't it? Avoid people who have an insight, in place of some "celebrity" to draw the punters.
Good footballer in his day though.
Yes, that may be so, but it doesn't exactly give him comedy credentials, does it?
In some ways it does- HE PLAYED FOR ARSENAL.
LOL.
Are they doing and episode on 'Oh No It's Selwyn Frogget!'? Methinks probably not.
Wayne Rooney could be a talking head.
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 10 2008, 7:24 PM BSTAre they doing and episode on 'Oh No It's Selwyn Frogget!'? Methinks probably not.
No, but they should! 
Quote: zooo @ September 10 2008, 7:24 PM BSTWayne Rooney could be a talking head.
Has he mastered speech?
Quote: Aaron @ September 10 2008, 8:00 PM BSTNo, but they should!
They should. Not my kind of show, but it did get huge ratings. Not, of course, that ITV want to be, ahem, selective in the choice of show they celebrate.
