Comments | brits_americans: Hi ya!!!

literaryguru in brits_americans

Hi ya!!!

Jun 02, 2006 19:42

**waves** Hi ya! I just joined this community a little while ago. I live in the US (metro NY area) and am a avid britcom and british mystery fan. Can't get enough of them-literally! :) Some of my favorites are Keeping Up Appearances, Barbara, Black Addar, Fawlty Towers, Vicar of Dibley, French & Saunders, My Hero, Father Ted, Waiting for God, ( Read more... )

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expanding_soul June 3 2006, 00:25:39 UTC

haha you sound like you could be my twin. im huge into britcoms. i live in texas. howdy.

literaryguru June 3 2006, 02:00:51 UTC

LOL!! Howdy!!!

perrie June 3 2006, 00:41:40 UTC

Besides the misspelling of some of the show names, hi. :) Can't help but wonder if some of the Anglophiles you see here go away still as keen on our little island once they've visited...

pygmymetal June 3 2006, 01:40:10 UTC

Yes. :) I love your little island, I felt as if I'd come home. I cried when I left.

literaryguru June 3 2006, 02:05:15 UTC

**sheepish grin** Oops! Sorry about that! That's what I get for not proofing my entry--LOL!! I'm sure that I would not want to go away! Everyone that I have met has only come back here saying that they can't wait to visit again. I can't wait to visit one day!! :)

cheeesuschrist June 3 2006, 01:40:55 UTC

Couldn't help noticing that in your British mysteries, you missed out the best of them all "A Touch of Frost". That's some awesome shehoozy.

literaryguru June 3 2006, 02:09:06 UTC

**bangs head against wall** How could I miss that one! Yes, fan of A Touch of Frost, too! :) Thanks for pointing it out :)

winterbadger June 3 2006, 15:32:03 UTC

and, speaking of David Jason, I confess to a sentimental fondness for "Darling Buds of May". I imagine some folk find it too twee, but I think it's kind of charming in an innocent, fun-loving kind of way.

literaryguru June 4 2006, 03:48:53 UTC

I've never heard of it! W00T--Another new one to see! :) Thanks!

winterbadger June 3 2006, 03:08:57 UTC

I've been watching Taggart, a British mystery that I don't think I've ever seen on the TV here in the US; I'm getting it from Netflix. But it's *the* longest-running police/mystery show in the UK (so I understand), hugely popular, and (most important to me) set in Glasgow, a city I've come to love.

There's another series I'd love to see that Netflix doesn't have: The Sweeney, a police drama that John Thaw did about ten years before he started the Morse series. Supposed to be terrifically good.

pygmymetal June 3 2006, 03:58:12 UTC

Netflix has Taggert? Lovely, I didn't know that.

literaryguru June 3 2006, 14:54:31 UTC

Ooooh! I'll have to keep a look-out for these!! Thanks for the info!

literaryguru June 3 2006, 15:08:40 UTC

Sounds great! Thank you! Can't wait to see it! Personally, I think that John Thaw was absolutely brilliant, so I'm sure that I will love The Sweeney. Although, to me he will always be "Morse". :)

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tos_lover June 3 2006, 04:58:58 UTC

Little Britain is one of the funniest programmes out of the UK for a great while. Tom Baker is sublime.

Midsomer Murders is brill

literaryguru June 3 2006, 14:58:13 UTC

I've heard! Yes, Big fan of Midsommer Murders. Hey! This is probably really old news to everyone, but the newest box set for Midsommer Murders has a tentative US release date of Oct. 3, 2006 for anyone who is interested in purchasing it. :)