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dormouse1953Sky is not the only place you see suggestions based on what you are looking at. If you are looking at something on the IMDb, it has a section saying, "People who liked this also liked..."
I was looking at the entry for the new Danger Mouse series and one of the items listed was the BBC's 1985 dramatisation of Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
Now, that is amazing. I not only watched that series back then, but it got me reading Dickens again having been put off him at school, and I do actually have the series on DVD. But I can't say I can see many similarities between the two. True, Dickens did like using silly names but that's about it.
The clue to why this programme was flagged is in one of the other suggestions, John Oliver: Terrifying Times. John Oliver is a British comedian who has made it big in the US. His show Last Week Tonight on HBO is also shown on Sky Atlantic over here and I find it exceedingly funny. He is doing the voice for a character in Danger Mouse - Dr. Augustus P Crumplehorn III, there's a Dickensian name for you. And if you look at the bottom of his listings as an actor on the IMDb you will see that his first ever television appearance was as "Pardiggle boy" in episode 2 of Bleak House.
Mrs Pardiggle is a do-gooder going around performing charitable acts to the detriment of her own large family. I presume Oliver played one of her sons. According to his biography, he would have been eight at the time. I don't even know if he actually had any lines in the episode. He didn't appear on television again for over fifteen years. This seems a tenuous link on which to build a suggestion.
Incidentally, reading Olvier's entry on Wikipedia I see his uncle was the composer Stephen Oliver. I saw his opera Timon of Athens back in 1991 (shortly before he died) and he did a television series about opera. He also wrote the incidental music for the BBC's radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
I was looking at the entry for the new Danger Mouse series and one of the items listed was the BBC's 1985 dramatisation of Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
Now, that is amazing. I not only watched that series back then, but it got me reading Dickens again having been put off him at school, and I do actually have the series on DVD. But I can't say I can see many similarities between the two. True, Dickens did like using silly names but that's about it.
The clue to why this programme was flagged is in one of the other suggestions, John Oliver: Terrifying Times. John Oliver is a British comedian who has made it big in the US. His show Last Week Tonight on HBO is also shown on Sky Atlantic over here and I find it exceedingly funny. He is doing the voice for a character in Danger Mouse - Dr. Augustus P Crumplehorn III, there's a Dickensian name for you. And if you look at the bottom of his listings as an actor on the IMDb you will see that his first ever television appearance was as "Pardiggle boy" in episode 2 of Bleak House.
Mrs Pardiggle is a do-gooder going around performing charitable acts to the detriment of her own large family. I presume Oliver played one of her sons. According to his biography, he would have been eight at the time. I don't even know if he actually had any lines in the episode. He didn't appear on television again for over fifteen years. This seems a tenuous link on which to build a suggestion.
Incidentally, reading Olvier's entry on Wikipedia I see his uncle was the composer Stephen Oliver. I saw his opera Timon of Athens back in 1991 (shortly before he died) and he did a television series about opera. He also wrote the incidental music for the BBC's radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
