Sitcomwriter
06-18-2002, 02:44 PM
FOX has a new series called "The Grubbs" but it started as a British series called "The Grimleys" and here's a review:The Grimleys (9/97)
ITV pilot movie set in 1975 about a boy coming of age in a depressing apartment block and an even more depressing family. His dad (Nigel Planer) never leaves his easy chair in front of the TV, his sister is a slut, and the P.E. teacher at school (comic Jack Dee) is a leering sadist. The only joy in his life is Samantha Janus, the cousin of his best friend who arrives back in town to teach at his school. Entertaining for the most part, I hope they make more.
(11/99)
ITV comedy series based on the 1997 pilot movie about an intelligent schoolboy in the 1970s stuck with an ignorant family, a sadistic P.E. teacher, and his fixation on his beautiful English teacher neighbor. Samantha Janus and Jack Dee from the movie have been replaced for the series, but the same level of fun and pathos continues, and this proves the perfect antidote to the awful Days Like These which unsuccessfully tried to mine material from the same era.
http://www.eskimo.com/~rkj/g.htm
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ITV pilot movie set in 1975 about a boy coming of age in a depressing apartment block and an even more depressing family. His dad (Nigel Planer) never leaves his easy chair in front of the TV, his sister is a slut, and the P.E. teacher at school (comic Jack Dee) is a leering sadist. The only joy in his life is Samantha Janus, the cousin of his best friend who arrives back in town to teach at his school. Entertaining for the most part, I hope they make more.
(11/99)
ITV comedy series based on the 1997 pilot movie about an intelligent schoolboy in the 1970s stuck with an ignorant family, a sadistic P.E. teacher, and his fixation on his beautiful English teacher neighbor. Samantha Janus and Jack Dee from the movie have been replaced for the series, but the same level of fun and pathos continues, and this proves the perfect antidote to the awful Days Like These which unsuccessfully tried to mine material from the same era.
http://www.eskimo.com/~rkj/g.htm
Comments?