Tag: Media

June 2007

Men Behaving Badly

Gary’s storyline is how he’s coping after being dumped by Dorothy

Tony’s is his temporary girlfriend after a long period of abstinence who finds his porn stash and who dumps him when he is unable to get rid of it on the basis of needing it if she dumps him, which of course she then does!

The plot concerns the dinner party held to rival Debs’ which fails and articulates Gary’s very personal failure.
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Opening sequence: multi-coloured titles dance across screen then seen revolving round the centre – psychedelic flashing blue background; whole impression is of drunken or drugged vision.

Premise: Edina is a publicist who has Lulu among other celebs on her books; however she isn’t very good and even her customers don’t think much of her; she lives in a nice suburban house where the living accommodation is on the ground floor and the kitchen below – topsy-turvey rather like the relationships in the series! Everything is extreme in this programme.
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