WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?

Breaking Bad by a country mile. Mad Men revels in its misogyny, as do many of its adherents. I find that aspect of it (while it is a largely well-written show) incredibly tedious. BB on the other hand has taken on a Shakespearean grandeur that is just breathtaking.

If we're now expanding it out to favourite non-Tucker lines, I love the exchange about Peter Mannion's blog:

If we're now expanding it out to favourite non-Tucker lines, I love the exchange about Peter Mannion's blog:

"You are a boring F, star, star, cunt!"

"You are a boring F, star, star, cunt!"

Campbell is English (born in Yorkshire, raised in Lancashire). Blair was born in Scotland, but spent most of his childhood in Durham, and no one really thinks of him as Scottish.

Campbell is English (born in Yorkshire, raised in Lancashire). Blair was born in Scotland, but spent most of his childhood in Durham, and no one really thinks of him as Scottish.

It's the LABOUR Party. You can't bleedin well Americanize the spelling of a name.

It's the LABOUR Party. You can't bleedin well Americanize the spelling of a name.

I was more making reference to the fact that 'Bent' is slang for homosexual, rather than the commissioning habits of TV schedulers. 

I'm going to guess that "Bent" will never make it to British TV screens.

Other than the 'eeeeeeh' that's just all wrong…

Life's Too Short is another new-ish show that used Cat Deeley in an uncomfortable cameo.

Ugh, will their gigs be full of people coming out with such nonsensical chat as this?

Seconded.

One just has to look at the paucity of social housing today in Britain today to understand that 'right to buy' was (and is) an unmitigated disaster as a social policy. But then again it wasn't designed as social policy, but rather a blatant bribe to the working classes (i.e. the core Labour vote).

The Merchant link is that Crook based Gareth's accent on his Bristolian twang.

^ amaze

His taste ain't that great, seen him wittering on about Dexter of late.