Bluemoon's Official Top 100 TV Shows
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I actually quite like mafia stuff. Not just the classic films, but a couple of the Puzo books too, as cac as they are in terms of high brow literature. So that wasn't it for me. It isnt like what i watched was poor or anything, no idea why, just didnt interest me to keep going.
Next he'll be saying he's never seen the Wire!
What a watch-list marathon that would be!
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I didn’t think WUM were tolerated on here.
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That’s what pandemics do to you when there’s nowhere to go.
RobMCFC
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I have seen The Wire - it was ok, but not the masterpiece everybody is making it out to be. As mentioned a lot earlier in this thread, David Simons’ Treme is far superior.
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I’ll probably get around to that as well, but somebody gave a summary of why they didn’t like it on here a few days ago and I thought hmmmmm, not too sure. But as you speak so highly of it, I’ll certainly give it a go. I’ll see you all in 4 years!!!
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9. Fawlty Towers 21/218
Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and, in 2019, it was named the 'greatest ever British TV sitcom' by a panel of comedy experts compiled by the Radio Times.
The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay on the English Riviera. The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth) who often is the peacemaker and voice of reason, and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs). They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests and tradespeople.
The idea of the show came from Cleese after he stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devon in 1970 (along with the rest of the Monty Python troupe), where he encountered the eccentric hotel owner Donald Sinclair. Stuffy and snobbish, Sinclair treated guests as though they were a hindrance to his running of the hotel (a waitress who worked for him stated "it was as if he didn't want the guests to be there"). Sinclair was the inspiration for Cleese's character Basil Fawlty.
In 1980, Cleese received the BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance and, in a 2001 poll conducted by Channel 4, Basil Fawlty was ranked second on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. The popularity of Fawlty Towers has endured, and it is often re-broadcast. The BBC profile for the series states that "the British sitcom by which all other British sitcoms must be judged, Fawlty Towers withstands multiple viewings, is eminently quotable ("don't mention the war") and stands up to this day as a jewel in the BBC's comedy crown.
Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and, in 2019, it was named the 'greatest ever British TV sitcom' by a panel of comedy experts compiled by the Radio Times.
The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay on the English Riviera. The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth) who often is the peacemaker and voice of reason, and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs). They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests and tradespeople.
The idea of the show came from Cleese after he stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devon in 1970 (along with the rest of the Monty Python troupe), where he encountered the eccentric hotel owner Donald Sinclair. Stuffy and snobbish, Sinclair treated guests as though they were a hindrance to his running of the hotel (a waitress who worked for him stated "it was as if he didn't want the guests to be there"). Sinclair was the inspiration for Cleese's character Basil Fawlty.
In 1980, Cleese received the BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance and, in a 2001 poll conducted by Channel 4, Basil Fawlty was ranked second on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. The popularity of Fawlty Towers has endured, and it is often re-broadcast. The BBC profile for the series states that "the British sitcom by which all other British sitcoms must be judged, Fawlty Towers withstands multiple viewings, is eminently quotable ("don't mention the war") and stands up to this day as a jewel in the BBC's comedy crown.
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Watery Fowls.
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I had Fawlty Towers at #4.
In terms of laughs per minute, this must be surely greater than any other comedy - only 12 episodes (part of its success IMO) and almost every line, every mannerism funny. Basil Fawlty dwarfs all the other characters, but the supporting cast is great, including those who only appear in one episode, e.g. Mr O'Reilly ("Lick o' paint, Lick o' paint").
A genuine classic.
In terms of laughs per minute, this must be surely greater than any other comedy - only 12 episodes (part of its success IMO) and almost every line, every mannerism funny. Basil Fawlty dwarfs all the other characters, but the supporting cast is great, including those who only appear in one episode, e.g. Mr O'Reilly ("Lick o' paint, Lick o' paint").
A genuine classic.