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QLib
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
... it dripped with contemporary metropolitan liberal attitudes, to the extent of making it unwatchable.
But clearly not quite unwatchable enough, as far as you were concerned.
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
Nice middle-class girls tend not to have black ex-boyfriends
Really?
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Chorister
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
For those who liked it, can I suggest that you tell the BBC, to encourage them to do it again.
Last week, one of the clerics very closely involved with the series consultation got up into the pulpit and declared, 'Don't worry - there will be another series'.
I heard it with my own ears.
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Alex Cockell
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And to those wishing it out on DVD - it will be. Release date is 25th October at the moment.
I've already got mine on pre-order...
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
Nice middle-class girls tend not to have black ex-boyfriends, but
... I know quite a few with black husbands.
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Chorister
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Heh, heh - then we can ditch all those outdated Alpha videos!
REV - the new new 'introduction to Christianity course'.
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... some are mixed-race marriages, and some are between two nice middle-class black people ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
(x-post with Chorister)
[ 01. September 2010, 07:59: Message edited by: Tina ]
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Alan Cresswell
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Originally posted by Leaf:
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
Nice middle-class girls tend not to have black ex-boyfriends
Really?
Shock, horror! Nice girls sometimes dump their boyfriends.
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Loveheart
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
Nigel was a potentially brilliant character as foil for Adam, but totally underused.
Like many Readers are in real life! ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Jemima the 9th
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
...the programme as a whole - like so many BBC series - was that it dripped with contemporary metropolitan liberal attitudes
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Originally posted by Chorister:
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
For those who liked it, can I suggest that you tell the BBC, to encourage them to do it again.
Last week, one of the clerics very closely involved with the series consultation got up into the pulpit and declared, 'Don't worry - there will be another series'.
I heard it with my own ears.
Excellent news!! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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QLib
Bad Example
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Originally posted by Jemima the 9th:
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
...the programme as a whole - like so many BBC series - was that it dripped with contemporary metropolitan liberal attitudes
You say that like it's a bad thing.
![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif) Nice one, Jemima.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Beland:
School whores - I have known them, they do tend to appear for a week or so just at the right time.
And all sorts of people would tell the builders to fuck off, even clergy.
Was Adam winning souls? Or - like many churches I have known of this type - putting people off church long time. And numbers are not everything.
In the urban areas that the series was set, mixed-race relationships are very common. And the couple were very believable. And Adam and Alex make a good couple - also very believable. Try not being so narrow minded and bigotted.
The meltdown was utterly and completely believable. With some license, because of the format, but very very close to a real breakdown - probably the best I have ever seen in a drama.
So sorry if the series did not conform to your narrow view of how Christianity should be, but in terms of realism, it was excellent. The Bishop of London liked it, although his archdeacons did not, which would indicate that it had some real sense of truth.
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BelandtheDragon
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Originally posted by Jemima the 9th:
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
...the programme as a whole - like so many BBC series - was that it dripped with contemporary metropolitan liberal attitudes
You say that like it's a bad thing.
If it makes it a grind for the majority of people who don't have such a world-view, yes.
ITV3 were running repeats of "Benidorm" in the 9.30 slot before Rev. The contrast with a series that was about and for ordinary people was striking.
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
ITV3 were running repeats of "Benidorm" in the 9.30 slot before Rev. The contrast with a series that was about and for ordinary people was striking.
What are 'ordinary' people?
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Originally posted by Roseofsharon:
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
ITV3 were running repeats of "Benidorm" in the 9.30 slot before Rev. The contrast with a series that was about and for ordinary people was striking.
What are 'ordinary' people?
I think this means Sun readers (circulation 3 million) rather than Guardian readers (circulation 280,000).
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
Nice middle-class girls tend not to have black ex-boyfriends
In London, that's not really true.
And the story was set in London. So "metropolitan attitudes" are mere versismo.
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
Episode 1: School-whores suddenly turned up on the rumour of a good Ofsted. This is not how it works. VA schools are identified as a way of middle-class parents to segregate their offspring, the church attendance game is played almost from birth, and played well (getting involved in church activities etc). The good Ofsted's follow once a school has a middle-class roll-call.
I'd better tell our two VA Primary Schools with no Church-going admissions policy in our deprived UPA patch not to expect a good OFSTED.
Wait a minute, they have good OFSTEDs. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Perhaps the inspectors thought they were middle-class Church-goers.
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Angloid
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Originally posted by ken:
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
Nice middle-class girls tend not to have black ex-boyfriends
In London, that's not really true.
Especially of nice black middle-class girls.
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Robert Armin
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The central character was a pathetic wimp who made occasional nods to having a prayer-life
This puzzles me. We were shown quite a bit of Adam's prayer life; the Office was part of the structure of his day, while he spontaneously spoke to God about all sorts of things on a regular basis. What else was the chap supposed to do?
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mattyou
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Originally posted by Jemima the 9th:
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Originally posted by BelandtheDragon:
...the programme as a whole - like so many BBC series - was that it dripped with contemporary metropolitan liberal attitudes
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Well it was a bit excessive. Recognising for instance that the evangelicals probably do more outreach than Adam's one-man-and-his-dog congregation might not have been a bad thing.
Of course it is a comedy but the targets were a little predictable.
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But what if their 'outreach' puts people off.
Dunno, what if it does?
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TomM
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Originally posted by mattyou:
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Originally posted by leo:
But what if their 'outreach' puts people off.
Dunno, what if it does?
Well if it puts people off, and the man and dog don't, then the man and dog are doing better 'outreach'!
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Niminypiminy
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an article just appeared on the Guardian web site saying the series has been recommissioned hurrah!
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Alex Cockell
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Originally posted by Niminypiminy:
an article just appeared on the Guardian web site saying the series has been recommissioned hurrah!
and here's a link.
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Alex Cockell
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For those who missed it, and out cross-pond friends, search for the following string in Youtube - someone's put the series up...
Rev - s01e01
I won't link directly, as it might be taken down.. but someone's been kind enough - tide-over till the DVD arrives in the post..
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Alex Cockell
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ARGH! Got an email from Amazon yesterday - the DVD release has been pushed back until April 18 next year! Bastards! ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
BBC/2ENTERTAIN - you're doing yourself no favours.. it's ALREADY available via torrent!
Maybe they're rerunning it in the new year to tide people over until series 2.. and selling through series 1 - and going with Easter releases each year?
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Loveheart
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I have it stored on my Sky+ box - family deletes it on pain of death... or worse! ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
The BBC've missed the Christmas market by doing that - seems stupid really. What do they have to gain by it?
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Originally posted by Loveheart:
The BBC've missed the Christmas market by doing that - seems stupid really. What do they have to gain by it?
Ten to one they are timing the DVD for just before a new series, so we will all buy it to catch up.
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Alex Cockell
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new series is apparently being filmed next summer, this is being timed for easter next year. I wonder, is series 1 being rerun during Lent?
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Loveheart
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Originally posted by Alex Cockell:
new series is apparently being filmed next summer, this is being timed for easter next year. I wonder, is series 1 being rerun during Lent?
And if so, will you give it up for Lent?
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Schroedinger's cat
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Originally posted by Loveheart:
And if so, will you give it up for Lent?
Surely the right attitude is to give up whatever you were going to do when it was on...
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Originally posted by Alex Cockell:
new series is apparently being filmed next summer, this is being timed for easter next year.
Computer says no.
In Adam Smallbone's church, Easter precedes summer. YMMV in the Antipodes, but surely they aren't filming REV in the footsteps of Lord of the Rings?
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Alex Cockell
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Originally posted by Deputy Verger:
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Originally posted by Alex Cockell:
new series is apparently being filmed next summer, this is being timed for easter next year.
Computer says no.
In Adam Smallbone's church, Easter precedes summer. YMMV in the Antipodes, but surely they aren't filming REV in the footsteps of Lord of the Rings?
No. Series 1 DVD release date is April 18. Series 2 has been commissione,d and according to the trade press is being filmed in summer 2011, for broadcast late 2011.
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Loveheart
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Slight tangent, but on Miles Tupp (who played Nigel in Rev) was on Michael MacIntyre's roadshow last night, as a stand up comedian, and I thought he was pretty funny (if a little controversial at times).
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Wow - I only had half an eye on it and didn't recognise him. Was he the one going on about village hall fascists?
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Loveheart
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Yes, that was the one.
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Oh my gosh! Well spotted, Loveheart! I thought he looked familiar. He was the only decent one on, I thought, I must stop watching Macintyre, he annoys me too much.
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Of course, Miles Jupp first hit the big time as Archie from Balamory!
This makes me happy ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Loveheart
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I found him scary as Archie in Balamory, as I did all of the characters. They seemed to take a bunch of weirdos and put them all together in one programme!
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Originally posted by Cottontail:
Of course, Miles Jupp first hit the big time as Archie from Balamory!
This makes me happy
I never connected the two at all!
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Gill H
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Originally posted by Loveheart:
I found him scary as Archie in Balamory, as I did all of the characters. They seemed to take a bunch of weirdos and put them all together in one programme!
The guy who plays Spencer is a friend of ours and could tell you some stories...!
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You know Spencer, wow! He was the top favourite character in our house.
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Spike
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Which character was he in Rev? I don't remember anyone call Spencer
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I assume he was in Ballamory.
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Loveheart
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Originally posted by Gill H:
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Originally posted by Loveheart:
I found him scary as Archie in Balamory, as I did all of the characters. They seemed to take a bunch of weirdos and put them all together in one programme!
The guy who plays Spencer is a friend of ours and could tell you some stories...!
I think Spencer seemed the most normal of them... if thats any comfort
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Gill H
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He's done dafter things in his previous job as an evangelistic kids' worker - including dressing up as a sheep and dancing to Michael Jackson ...!
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