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[meddow]

I've been watching The Catherine Tate Show lately. I've caught series one and two. I'd really only seen bits of it on youtube before now. I figured it needed investigating, 1. since half the comments about Catherine Tate I've read seem to start with the sentence "I can't stand The Catherine Tate Show…" (and either finish with the comment of "and

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[artic_fox]

I enjoy Catherine Tate and her show. I would certainly watch it if it was on. Some sketches I find annoying, but on the whole she is very clever. My mum really loves "Gran". I haven't seen a lot of her films though... I did see her in the atrocious Love (And Other Disasters). Its badness wasn't her fault though. And she was great at James McAvoy's mum in Starter for Ten.

[meddow]

She's only made five, so you've seen a decent percentage of them. I really liked Love (and other Disasters). It certainly wasn't brilliant, but I did love it for trying to subvert the romcom clichés. And she was one of the higlights of Starter for 10 for me (which I watched first time in June last year having no clue she was in it).

[artic_fox]

The only good thing about Love (and other Disasters) for me was the guy from Heroes, and Catherine Tate. But Brittany Murphy makes me want to poke my own eyes out so that didn't help.

Starter For Ten is a great little film. Simple, yet very appealing.

[meddow]

Santiago Cabrera is gorgeous. I wish his character had been given a better storyline on Heroes. I have a surprising tolerance for Britney Murphy. I think it is because she was hilarious in Drop Dead Gorgeous (one of my favourite movies of all time). But I can sympathise. There are some actors and actresses that ruin movies for me by their mere presence.

And I adore Starter for 10. It's one of my favourite romcoms.

[artic_fox]

It is not that I am predisposed to hate Brittany Murphy but every time I've seen her in a film, she has been BAD. That might be that I've only seen her in a couple of things that weren't great projects to start with, I don't know. I might try Drop Dead Gorgeous at some stage then.

Yes, Starter for Ten is great, and the cast especially is wonderful: McAvoy, Tate, Dominic Cooper, Cumberbatch, etc. I really like Rebecca Hall too, who was in The Prestige and is coming up in Einstein and Eddington with David Tennant.

[meddow]

I didn't realize Rebecca Hall was in Einstein and Eddington. Yay! I think she's brilliant

And you have to try Drop Dead Gorgeous at some point. It's just hilarious.

[artic_fox]

I believe she is playing Mrs Eddington. She's slowly going through all my men. Bale, McAvoy and now Tennant. AND she is in Frost/Nixon with Matthew Macfadyen. If she wasn't so awesome, I'd hate her.