I've never been a fan of the late Carla Lane. I found The Liverbirds painful and unrealistic....admittedly then not living in the city I did not know a great deal about Liverpool. One bird came from deepest Lancashire....despite having a Scouse family....and the other from The Wirral! Any old Northerner will do. The characters just talk, " funny" lines in a vacuum it seems. Butterflies I thought was ludicrous and a dreadful waste of an actor like Geoffrey Palmer. The less said about the sons the better. But Bread took...if you'll excuse me...the biscuit! Forget the lazy stereotypes and again the range of Northern accents, to me it simply wasn't funny. And Grandad! God help us. An old man saying piss off is humour? Not to me.
Review of Bread
