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[matty]

I had the pleasure of watching Hotel Babylon last night, and shall doubtless be glued to Judge John Deed tonight. If you've never witnessed these two pieces of televisual carnage, I strongly urge you to do so.

 

With some of the worst acting, most laboured dialogue, and utterly risible plotlines in recent viewing history, they are not to be missed. Nancy Banks-Smith wrote this morning that watching Hotel Babylon 'made her teeth hurt' it was so poor.

 

I would love to think that Tamsin Outhwaite (for it is she) spent many months shadowing a Manager of a top hotel in order to achieve her faultless portrayal of someone who's never even stayed in a hotel, let alone managed one. And as for Martin Shaw in 'Deed'. His acting has never been quite up there with the greats (think Cannon and Ball in Boys in Blue) but for sheer stomach tightening woodenness, this programme is a must see. Water-cooler TV.

 

I beseech you to give up your Friday evening frivolity to bear witness to a little piece of crap. If I paid my licence fee, I'd stop paying it.

[stressederic]

Judge John Deed is the TV equivalent of Carbon Monoxide poisoning

[mally]

If I paid my licence fee, I'd stop paying it.

 

 

[Senrab_nhoj]

I 'watched' hotel babylon last night

 

Akin to watching a car crash.. it was so bad that I couldnt stop viewing...

[Paul B]

As soon as I see or hear a major inaccuracy in a TV drama, I switch off. If the writers cannot get the facts correct, it devalues the whole thing as it means they haven't done their research properly and you wonder what other horrors and inaccuracies have crept in. In "Judge John Deed" recently, a witness was asked what his job was. "Nursing Officer" he replied. My wife's a nurse and said, "There hasn't been a post of Nursing Officer for over ten years." That was it, off.

[Paddy 66]

I enjoyed "Hotel Babylon" thought it was reasonably funny but then again didn't take it seriously. The book was best appreciated that way as well.

[Guest Banjo]

I had the pleasure of watching Hotel Babylon last night, and shall doubtless be glued to Judge John Deed tonight. If you've never witnessed these two pieces of televisual carnage, I strongly urge you to do so.

 

With some of the worst acting, most laboured dialogue, and utterly risible plotlines in recent viewing history, they are not to be missed. Nancy Banks-Smith wrote this morning that watching Hotel Babylon 'made her teeth hurt' it was so poor.

 

I would love to think that Tamsin Outhwaite (for it is she) spent many months shadowing a Manager of a top hotel in order to achieve her faultless portrayal of someone who's never even stayed in a hotel, let alone managed one. And as for Martin Shaw in 'Deed'. His acting has never been quite up there with the greats (think Cannon and Ball in Boys in Blue) but for sheer stomach tightening woodenness, this programme is a must see. Water-cooler TV.

 

I beseech you to give up your Friday evening frivolity to bear witness to a little piece of crap. If I paid my licence fee, I'd stop paying it.

 

"sadly typical of a certain type of self-hating, pathetic whining. Some people are so unremittingly focused on what is negative they become incapable of recognising what is positive."

 

Its true what they say about you and projection then.

Edited January 20, 2006 by Banjo