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Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 14 12:07 pm Post subject: Blandings.

The second series of Blandings starts this coming Sunday at 6.30 pm on BBC One. I've seen the trailer of the Saddleback pig travelling in the open top car and I can't wait for Sunday. Its unashamedly my kind of entertainment.

Incidentally, on this day in 1975 the death of the writer, Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was announced. The writers career lasted for more than 70 years. He was a prolific writer and his works included novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics and many pieces of journalism.
He didn't hang about and managed fifteen plays and the lyrics for 250 songs that were used in his thirty musical comedies.
He'll be for ever remembered for having been the creator of Jeeves and Wooster but of course, he also wrote Sunday nights offering. Blandings. A fount of knowledge, that's what I am.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 14 12:11 pm Post subject:
I love the books but was less than impressed by the TV series

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 14 12:42 pm Post subject:
I just like the pigs.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 14 12:45 pm Post subject:
That goes without saying. I could have done with more pigs and fewer people

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46263
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 14 2:51 pm Post subject:
i really like his j and w stuff ,as books or telly (especially fry n laurie style) the blandings books are well observed the telly is a bit less cutting than the books i recon he got caned for the nazi affiliation thing cos he was too accurate about the toffs of his time rather than his allegiances fine chap imho ,proper observer and owt with pigs as the stars is ok by me

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 14 5:55 pm Post subject:
Easy viewing for lazy Sunday evenings.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 14 9:49 am Post subject:
It raised one or two sniggers but all in all, I reckon that it was a bit pathetic.

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 14 1:04 pm Post subject:

Bodger wrote:

all in all, I reckon that it was a bit pathetic.

I dunno, I thought Harry Enfield was on fine form

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 14 4:01 pm Post subject:
I think that may have been one of the problems, he was so very obviously, Harry Enfield.

chickenlady

Joined: 18 Aug 2013
Posts: 413
Location: Dorset

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 14 4:24 pm Post subject:
I just don't find it funny.

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