Not sure that the BBC can't do these any more, but they
haven't. Buy, steal - or employ Ross Macdonad to steal one
for you - these marvellous pieces of TV. We, the British, may
be shite at many things but for a while I think we made
unequivocally the best TV in the world, and thankfully that
included some noir (if not maybe HB, although Scum by Allan
Clarke was I think originally a BBC piece before it was
filmed, it is an excellent Borstal - youth jail, drama.) Grab
Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective if you can as well. As
a reporter on the local paper for Potters' native Forest of
Dean we have been reporting on the soon to be released Robert
Downey Jr film version. If it is one tenth as fantastic as
the incredible BBC version it will be a must see. There's
lots out there on the net on the series, but it has at least
passing interest to avians concerning, as it does, the
travails of a hack writer of 'tec fiction by the name of
Phillip Marlowe. The greatest TV programme ever made? I think
so. Seems like you Americans are now at the apex with
Sopranos and so on......
'ow bist butties. Colin, from the Forest.
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