kingdom

[chazza]

Did anyone watch this on sunday night?

was it any good?

[legal girl]

It was quite good yeah. Just Sunday night light relief really. We watched it cos we like Stephen Fry; although he needs a haircut!

[4getmenot]

I watched it coz filmed in my home town. I watched alot of the filming last summer.

[Ethel]

I enjoyed it.

Doc Martin without the funny bits - and a solicitor instead of a doctor.

[auntiebertie]

Nice Sunday evening drama - didn't tax the brain too much and was not as sickly sweet as The Royal

Where was it filmed 4getmenot??

[mccfluff]

thought it was fairly average myself, nice scenery though, 4get you live in a gorg part of the country

[4getmenot]

swaffham

[4getmenot]

but its not really by the sea at all. Thats tv trickery for ya :-) Its a small market town that they filmed in and it was given the name market shipborough and shown to be by the sea. Changed our town sign and changed my local to the startled duck :-)

[horselady]

Can anyone remind me what the young legal assistant has been in before?

[4getmenot]

emmerdale as Robert

[horselady]

omg so it was! Thanks 4getmenot

[4getmenot]

they all used to drink in another pub close by after filming. My mate had come down to visit and we decided to go to this pub out of town, was lovely hot summers evening and as we got inside my mate said I recognise them people outside, I hadn�t seen them and she said �maybe they�re an old mates parents�. Then when they walked in she said �that�s him there�, I said �that�s Stephen Fry you plonker�.

[Octavius]

4get � I visit Swaffham a lot, you should look out for me.

As said, good old light entertainment and besides, there was sod-all else on. I like the �quaint� drama/comedy genre it gives us an idyllic - if not unrealistic - view of life outside of the big smoke. I would have watched Gangs of New York but seeing as that finished at 1am on a Sunday morning (??!!!) I declined and had an early night with Mrs O.

[Ric.ror]

I did not watch it but I did have a dream that I was married to Stephan Fry and we had lots of little children!!!!!!!!!!!

[redcrx]

blimey 4get, youre usually so cagey about where we live, thats why i didnt mention it either.

The seaside town they show on the credits is Wells.

[4getmenot]

only said it coz you didnt then I wouldnt be associated with you :-) lol

[redcrx]

oh thats nice, disown me :( sob sob

[Stellabe]

I quite liked it. It was easy going and didnt tax my brain too much after a day of heavy sun bathing and BBQ. I like Stephen Fry and think he did quite well. I did find myself telling him not to be a fool and letting himself get walked on by his sister. hehe.

[Buenchico]

Can I add my support to those who enjoyed it?

It was pleasing to find a 'gentle' drama. i.e. one which wasn't full of car chases or heroin addicts recalling their abusive childhoods. The plot was reasonably believable and its predictability only added to the my 'sense of well-being' at the end. (i.e. it was obvious that the guy seeking to prevent the new car park being built would be successful but it was still nice to have a happy ending!).

I recognised Swaffham but those aerial shots of the coast looked more like somewhere on the south coast to me. I thought that it was around Chichester but I'm happy to accept that it was Wells. I only know the pubs and the chippy in Wells ;-)

If Legal Girl thinks that SF needs a haircut, she obviously never saw Griff Rhys Jones in the first series of 'Restoration'. He must have had barbers across the country crying in despair ;-)

Chris

[4getmenot]

well you'll all be happy to know ITV have already commisioned a 2nd series. :-)

[redcrx]

Chris, are you a local too?