Lucky Grills was a fine actor ;-). Never sure if he was trying to be serious or was taking the piss!!You obviously never saw Bluey or A Country Practise mate :)
The one I dont like is the one who is now in Scott & BaileyMany years ago (in the Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner days) we had a few cast members as neighbours. They used to take us to rehearsals so I got to meet many of the cast in a "normal" setting. Most were playing themselves, exactly as you say, but some were playing a completely different character. Violet Carson, who played the battleaxe Ena Sharples, was one of the nicest people I've ever met. Jean Alexander (Hilda Ogden) was also quite classy in real life. More recently, the late Liz Dawn and her husband lived in the same block of flats as my mum and she was lovely, not at all like Vera Duckworth. Also met Kate Ford who plays Tracey Barlow and she was also fantastic.
I agree totally that Prisoner Cell Block H was so bad that you had to watch it.
You obviously never saw Bluey or A Country Practise mate :)
There's a brilliant piss take called Damnation St on YouTube.A few years ago I came over to England to attend my Mothers funeral, I stayed at my brothers house.
We were watchers of Coronation St which is on pay tv down under, anyway I think were about 6 months behind the UK with the episodes.
One day I was on my own so I flicked the telly on and saw Coronation st was on, I started watching, I didnt know or recognise the storyline and even some actors that appeared were new to me.
What became very obvious to me after about 10 or 15 minutes was how bad the acting was, terrible in fact, I couldnt believe it, why hadnt I noticed this before ?
I thought about it and decided that when your involved with the storyline you just dont notice bad acting as your kind of entranced (almost hypnotised) in whats going on. Its very addictive.
Never watched it since and glad to be out of the cycle of 'having' to watch it.