Oh, god, yes, re the epic fail of film one. But not so appallingly Stage Oirish as an appalling Star Trek TNG I watched the other night - about two separated colonies, one of which had become all cold, technological and anti-sex, and the other was all fiddles, poitin, earthy humour and goats in the beds. Of course, they had to reunite to save each other. I do hope (bearing in mind it pre-dated the Good Friday Agreement) it wasn't intended as a political allegory.
I think one of the differences (which the OP picks up on in a more recent post, which I expect you may be tracking backwards from) is the depiction of working class people on TV. If you lump together the viewing figures for Coronation Street, EastEnders, Shameless, The Royle Family and so on the statement "I'm not interested in watching shows about working class characters" may well be true of some people, but not enough in the UK to affect programming of such shows negatively.
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Date: 2008-05-27 07:41 pm (UTC)I think one of the differences (which the OP picks up on in a more recent post, which I expect you may be tracking backwards from) is the depiction of working class people on TV. If you lump together the viewing figures for Coronation Street, EastEnders, Shameless, The Royle Family and so on the statement "I'm not interested in watching shows about working class characters" may well be true of some people, but not enough in the UK to affect programming of such shows negatively.