Gimme Gimme Gimme: The Complete Series 1 [DVD] [1999]

DVD Special Features: Soundtrack - English Stereo 14:9 screen ratio Regions 2 and 4 From .co.uk ----------- When Gimme Gimme Gimme first hit the television screen in 1998, it immediately divided the critics. Plenty loathed it, but it soon acquired cult comedy status in the BBC2 post-watershed tradition. Since then it has gone mainstream on BBC1 but as the first series shows, its appeal lies in a surreal anarchy. Linda (Kathy Burke, brilliant) and Tom (James Dreyfus, who went on to star with Bette Midler in her ill-ed sitcom) live in a world of self-delusion. They are the ultimate misfits; a grotesque ladette who thinks she is "gorgeous" and worships Liam Gallagher and a neurotic gay actor who can't land a decent part for toffee but cherishes a secret passion for Simon Shephard, the smooth star of popular television dramas such as Peak Practice. They trade non-PC insults like most people make small talk (Linda: "There's no such thing as gay. It's just laziness."), yet are totally reliant on each other. It's vulgar, coarse, often outrageous and certainly not for the faint-hearted. But in most parts it is extremely funny. And if the self-regarding cuteness of so many US comedy imports turns your stomach, you'll love it. This is Will and Grace, on cocaine, in a parallel universe. On the DVD: presented in standard 14:9 format with stereo soundtrack, this disk simply gives you the first series of Gimme Gimme Gimme exactly as it appeared on television. So the picture and sound quality are fine. Just select your favourite episode from the index and laugh away. The lack of extras is disappointing. There must be some great outtakes, which would have added a bit of value; so would biographies of the stars and writer Jonathan Harvey, who has become one of the UK's best young playwrights. --Piers Ford P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); From the Back Cover ------------------- "Gimme Gimme Gimme a man after midnight" as the song goes. But Linda (Kathy Burke) and Tom (James Dreyfus) would settle for a man, any man, at any time! Unfortunately they couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding so have to make do with each others company. When most people look at Linda La Hughes, they feel ill, but when she looks in the mirror she sees Catherine Zeta Jones smiling back. Tom is an actor, he is camper than a pink row of tents. He aspires to the heights of Olivier and Brando (and Peak Practice) but can't even land a part as "Third yob" on Crimewatch. Always b and moaning about their bad luck Linda and Tom combine to make the funniest, most outrageous, non-PC comedy couple to hit our screens. Contains all episodes from the first series; ! Who's that Boy? 2 The Big Break 3 Legs and Co 4 Do they take Sugar 5 Saturday night Diva 6 I Do, I Do, I Do See more ( javascript:void(0) )

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