BBC 4 at 9 oclock Not sure to watch or not

I may give it a watch on Iplayer.

Where the fook has that pier come from????????

yts

What

youth training scheme

Is it me or does Anne's Geordie accent get stronger everytime she speaks??!!

Also did you spot the telephone area codes on the bedsits at Seaton Carew.....0191, obviously the researchers have done their homework.

This is why I didn't bother watching it.

Totally agree, I've wasted an hour of my life watching it.Was watching Arsenal but at 2-0 down thought game over.

I picked up on pier and STD codes on estate agents boards.

Typical BBC, no background work, or so it appears, knocked together in about the length of the programme.

Absolute S***e

Sure POK will start a thread on how good it was.

What do I pay my licence for ??????

Was flawed from start to finish

I may be wrong here but wasn't Anne Darwin a Durham lass hence the accent
albeit far too over the top false Geordie accent!
Nice pier though!

It was a bit shallow...........

In all honesty I thought Bernard Hill did a very godd John Darwin !!

Bernard Hill was good again in this role just the rest was crap now i know why it was put on 4 not 2

It was shocking and I only caught the last 15 mins of it.

Don't think il bother watching on iplayer

I've just managed to see it.

The film-like opening scene on the beach promised an excellent drama, but I thought the acting at the start was a bit wooden at times, maybe down to using inexperienced actors.

I was also disappointed that Anne Darwin was given a Newcastle accent to try to tie Hartlepool to the North East generally, but as we are all aware, a Geordie accent for a person from Hartlepool is simply WRONG realistically, as well as having the pier.

The most accurate accent was from the police officer who visited their home.

And Anne's accent broke hysterically twice whenever she reacted painfully.

As for the scene on the pier, that was clearly for dramatic purposes because there is no way it could have been there for realism.

I couldn't believe the amount of scenes there were with them having it off, especially the webcam scene!!

The most assured performance came from Bernard Hill.

Wasn't that Flick who appeared again as the photographer in Panama? Because it certainly looked like it.

I laughed at the "Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" metaphor that was used when John Darwin knocked the wall through in their home.

All in all, a good smart, entertaining attempt, spoilt by accents and the pier - 7/10.

Yet, Anne Darwin had a strong Geordie accent.

It's things like that that let down good research....things like calling Seaton Carew "Hartlepool Beach".

' Having it off! Jesus, I haven't heard that expression in 20 years.

Have you been watching too many re-runs of 'On the Buses' ?

7/10 Your easily please if you give it a 3 that would have been to much

Caught it last night. Where's that pier? Just briefly outlined certain parts and didn't go into much detail. Another load of shyte from the BBC which must stand for - Badly researched, Badly made, Crap.

It would have easily got an 8 or 9 from me, but Anne Darwin's accent let me down a little bit.

I probably have, yeah.

That's the sort of the phrase that you use when you've lived in the South all your life.

Better off watching this, IMHO, FWIW, HTH & TIA


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pht5q/Time_Shift_Series_9_Oliver_Postgate_A_Life_in_Small_Films/

Watched it last night, kept expecting the bint playing Ann Darwin to say, "dubbelyoo-dubbelyoo-dubbelyoo-dot-poor battered bairns and their fat mams-dot-com", or something similar.

Did Jonny come from the collieries somewhere?he did not have a yacker accent.P sss poor show

Perhaps the BBC used a wide-angled lens, & then put the film in the wrong way around, so really the pier was from Saltburn or Redcar.

That same camera really magnified the grains of sand on the beach. The grains were so big, it looked more like the shingle beaches you get darn sarf