Friday Night Dinner anniversary special

[Utter Shit]

Tonight at 9pm on Channel 4. Great show of course, but will be particularly poignant due to the death of Paul Ritter.

[up_the_hampipe]

Apparently Tamsin Grieg tried to convince Ritter not to do the show, as he was so ill. Hope this isn't too rough to watch.

[imitationleather]

Apparently Tamsin Grieg tried to convince Ritter not to do the show, as he was so ill. Hope this isn't too rough to watch.

Oh gawd. Dunno if I want to watch now.

[jobotic]

Fucking hell Lipman on Corrie now Oberman and Barber on this.

Can't watch anything.

Why is this a thing anyway?

[Cuellar]

Tracy Ann Oberman was in it to be fair.

[jobotic]

Yeah I forgot that. Didn't really watch it much but did like Paul Ritter.

[crankshaft]

Tracy Ann Oberman was in it to be fair.

And Barber, too - she's Sheila Bloom in season one ("MY MERCEDES!")

[Cuellar]

Oh that's true

[neveragain]

Really hit me seeing Paul Ritter interviewed. Poor man.

[jobotic]

Yeah was churlish of me to mention the cunts on it. Everyone else is lovely.

What has Popper appeared in other than Look Around You? I really like him. I know he's a writer, I mean as a performer.

[Cold Meat Platter]

Yeah was churlish of me to mention the cunts on it. Everyone else is lovely.

What has Popper appeared in other than Look Around You? I really like him. I know he's a writer, I mean as a performer.

Down the Line, as Baal, in later series and the TV version. It's... not my favourite performance of his.

The Timewaster Letters is a fun book, I think he's doing an audio version.

[Utter Shit]

Really hit me seeing Paul Ritter interviewed. Poor man.

Me too, very sad. By all accounts he was a really nice bloke.

[msm]

Fucking hell Lipman on Corrie now Oberman and Barber on this.

Can't watch anything.

Why is this a thing anyway?

have I missed something ? Aside from them all being "critics" of Jeremy Corbyn

[Captain Z]

Very glad "The Fox" was voted the favourite episode.

[jobotic]

have I missed something ? Aside from them all being "critics" of Jeremy Corbyn

No. That's it.

"Critics"?

[msm]

No. That's it.

"Critics"?

Cheers .

[VelourSpirit]

have I missed something ? Aside from them all being "critics" of Jeremy Corbyn

Barber is a vocal JK Rowling supporter and Oberman's had a few Twitter dogpiling incidents on anyone she decides is an antisemite, plus this https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/29/rachel-riley-and-tracy-ann-oberman-drop-libel-claim-over-retweet

[jobotic]

Barber does late night drunken abusive tweets, always aimed at the left/Corbyn.


https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2019/11/frances-barbers-london-bridge-meltdown.html?m=1

And Oberman's slurs are pretty well known. Surprised that someone who knows she is a Corbyn critic isn't aware of that.

But I do regret bringing them up.

[Bad Ambassador]

Funny that Oberman is an actual slanderer.

[Cuellar]

Caught a glimpse of Paul Ritter when flicking through the channels post-Partridge, poor bloody guy. Couldn't really bring myself to watch. Best just to watch the good episodes again I suppose.

[the science eel]

What were the other two voted and shown, as well as 'The Fox'?

[BritishHobo]

Down the Line, as Baal, in later series and the TV version. It's... not my favourite performance of his.

The Timewaster Letters is a fun book, I think he's doing an audio version.

He used to do some podcasts as the Robin Cooper 'Timewaster' character. Can't remember a lot about them, but I always remember really laughing at the character's obnoxious habit of prematurely finishing other people's sentences as if he was the one who came up with it.

[timebug]

I thought it was a decent forty minute documentary, dragged out to twice the length by surplus padding and reshowing the same few clips. Sad to see Paul Ritter looking so ill, and Tamsin Greig did say she had advised him not to appear. Random peeve; is Fucking Cludia Fucking WinkleFuckingman on fucking EVERYTHING????? So far as I know, she has no connection to the show at all, but is obviously just sitting around waiting for 'talking heads' spots like this to appear.

[Leej88]

Poor guy was not a fan of the show but he looks so bloated RIP.

[tookish]

I found Paul Ritter's interviews heartening to watch; I lost my grandfather to brain cancer and was afraid that Ritter would be struggling to articulate himself in his interview, but it was poignant and lovely to see him talk about a role that had clearly meant so much to him. Devastating to see him looking so unwell but I'm glad he got to speak a little on his legacy. I loved FND and we tirelessly spout lines from it at home.

[Jerzy Bondov]

I don't think I can watch this as I'm too sad about Paul Ritter.

Do they explain how the downstairs loo has a window to the outside when really the garage should be on that wall?

[Magnum Valentino]

Yes

[Bad Ambassador]

1. It's the dining room wall.
2. It's a mirror.

[neveragain]

They filmed in a real house so you'd expect the dimensions/location of rooms to be correct.

[Utter Shit]

They filmed in a real house so you'd expect the dimensions/location of rooms to be correct.

Not with these new builds, am I right!