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Wild West - Series 1
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 | Wild West is a 1992 film directed by David Attwood. It stars Naveen Andrews & Sarita Choudhury. Posters Of Wild West |
The humour is fairly subtle so you need half a brain to understand some of the speech & sight gags. Set in a Cornish village it is based around an ensemble of characters - Mary & Angela are the linch pins of the community, serving behind the counter of the post office - where they also live in the flat above & share a bad as a lezbian couple until something better comes along. Then theres Old Jake, a lonely fisherman, Harry, the local lad & Holly who runs a witchcraft museum/shop.
The first episode is a bit dodgy, but every sitcom has that problem of setting up the characters - but in the subsequent episodes many strange & hilarious things occur such as Old Jake going missing, Mary & Angela holding a protest against holiday homes by breaking into an actresses home & using her widescreen tv & helping themselves to the liquor cabinet, the discovery that the local pub holds social evenings upstairs to which Mary invites herself, arriving at the event with the line Im here for my poking. I urge you to give this comedy a try. Its different - but its certainly not to be missed! 5 stars.
| Catherine Tate is a British actress & comedienne, whose BBC2 solo series of 2004 received wide acclaim. Tate was born in London & made her television debut in 1994. She appeared in comedy series such as Big Train & That Peter Kay Thing before being given her own show, which she co-wrote with Darren Litten.
Posters Of Wild West Editors Choice: Wild West, The Catherine Tate Show, View DVDology |
Dawn French is a British comedienne probably best known as one half of the comic duo French & Saunders. French first came to public attention as a member of The Comic Strip -- part of the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s. Here she met her future husband Lenny Henry, with whom she has an adopted daughter. After her success with French & Saunders, her first project was Murder Most Horrid a dark comedy satire of murder mysteries. Her biggest solo television role to date has been as the title figure in the long running BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley, created by Richard Curtis. Since finishing The Vicar of Dibley, she starred in the BBC sitcom Wild West, in which she plays a woman living in Cornwall who is a lesbian more through lack of choice than any specific natural urge. This series was not met with as much success as her earlier role. She played the Fat Lady in the film adaptation of Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, replacing the less well-known actress Elizabeth Spriggs who played the character in the first film of the series.
Posters Of Wild WestEditors Choice: Wild West, French And Saunders, The Vicar Of Dibley, Live, Milk, At The Movies, View DVDology