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The Amazing Mr Blunden (2021)
Pitiful
This is the worst reboot or remake of anything I have seen. Ever.
I can only assume that the writer of this vacuous virtue-signalling non-event had kompromat on someone at Sky TV to get it commissioned.
Because nothing could justify bringing to the screen something as lifeless as this. It could never compete with the original film anyway, but it could have been an inventive retelling with nice new locations and a few nifty CGI effects. Nothing.
And the acting didn't help, either. The leads were dire, including Simon Callow, who seemed as if he were deigning to appear only because he owed someone a favour.
This was Christmas torture that made martyrs of us all.
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Criminal Wannabe?
This is just the right show for you. Odd-looking actors, amusingly delivering portentous but "gritty" evil nonsense for angry, low-IQ audiences who have long tired of the Mitchell brothers on Eastenders. Neither artistic nor realistic, Peaky Blinders never even climbs the first ladder of plain old entertainment, either. Sadly for the BBC, pretension does not equal quality, or pace.
Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999)
Inspired and hilarious
One of the funniest and most original situation comedies ever to come out of Britain. It's coarse and over-the-top, and in the finest tradition of British saucy postcard humor. Replete with broad characterizations (straight female nymphomaniac living with mincing gay man, competing for the affections of straight and happily married black guy living downstairs), over-the-top situations, double entendres, and delicious one-liners, 'Gimme Gimme Gimme' is the inevitable next step for those who loved 'Are You Being Served', the 'Carry On' films, 'Girls On Top' and 'Absolutely Fabulous'.
Pity that other commitments prevented the writer and leads from pursuing the show beyond three seasons of 6 episodes.
Not for the twee, or Cliff Richard wannabes or those who think that it's shot on film and not on videotape, 'Gimme Gimme Gimme' is a must-have for the collection of any lover of camp or no-holds-barred comedy.