There's a new series starting soon on ITV I think, exploring the locations of famous British films; the multi-storey car park where Michael Caine's Carter helped Alf Roberts from Coronation Street over the edge. I've just seen one short trailer and it looks promising.
name='samkydd']There's a new series starting soon on ITV I think, exploring the locations of famous British films; the multi-storey car park where Michael Caine's Carter helped Alf Roberts from Coronation Street over the edge. I've just seen one short trailer and it looks promising.
Sounds good Sam.
It's the type of program, if done well, that should have been made a long time ago.
There is plenty of interest out there for programs like this - and plenty of great UK locations to feature.
Dave.
Like you Sam I thought it sounded promising, but it was actually very poor and more time was devoted to inane chat than the locations.
Agreed. When it opened up with the shot of the Get Carter car park and the theme I was really looking forward to it. Instead of that we got an interview with some naturists about a nudist beach. An opportunity missed.
I haven't seen it yet but the style you describe is quite common in such factual presentations these days. The presenter always has to try and be funny all the time, when clearly he/she or the script is not, and "light hearted" is just "bloody irritating"!name='DB7']Like you Sam I thought it sounded promising, but it was actually very poor and more time was devoted to inane chat than the locations.
If such programmes were played "straight" and taken a little more seriously by the makers, then this would be welcomed by viewers interested in the subject matter. If people really want to watch idiots and listen to annoying puns they'd tune into something presented by Ant and Dec instead!
I saw a bit of Robbie Coltrane's B-Road Britain the other week and that was just dire! Pretending to drive that old Jag all the way up to Glasgow (he was caught out though because with the hood down he towered above the windscreen by about a foot, but when you saw shots of the car with the hood up you'd expect to see his head poking into the underside of the roof, but no, someone else was driving it). Why don't they just admit that they just used it for brief location shots and the rest of the time it was moved around on the back of a trailer, while RC went ahead to the next location in a normal car?
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