David Walliams as Frankie Howerd?!
Question: What a let down. I was expecting a stunning performance similar to the Stephen Poliakoff dramas he did recently.
Instead it seemed to focus entirely on his sexuality. We all knew he was gay - so why did we need the visuals?
Your views?
Answers: What a let down. I was expecting a stunning performance similar to the Stephen Poliakoff dramas he did recently.
Instead it seemed to focus entirely on his sexuality. We all knew he was gay - so why did we need the visuals?
Your views?
I tend to agree. I was really looking forward to this, considering the great performances we've seen previously in this series (especially Phil Davis as Wilfrid Brambell and Jason Isaacs as Harry H Corbett in "The Curse of Steptoe" and Trevor Eve as Hughie Green in "Most Sincerely"), but Walliams didn't give a particularly convincing performance as Frankie Howerd in my view, and the story itself could have been a lot more interesting.
I think your right that it concentrated far too much on the "love affair". There was a lot more to Howerd's life than that, and the whole thing would have been better if that had been played out more as a background aspect. I enjoyed the documentary about Howerd that was on BBC4 afterwards a lot more than "Rather You Than Me".
On the whole "The Curse of Comedy" has been a great drama series, but I think the last one rather let it down.
Damn it i missed that, been meaning to watch it all week, was it BBC ? if so ill watch the i-player
Yeah Just watched it and have to agree. I was expecting more than just his sexuality shown over and over.
I was really looking forward to this and now feel abit let down and not knowing anything more about him than i already knew. Shame.......
I agree, we were disappointed with it too and it was very depressing, wasn't it.
We are fans of Frankie and we thought it wasn't what he would have liked. I can't believe Dennis would do that to him, he oversaw the piece you know. Dennis runs Frankies old house here in Somerset.
I saw the hancock one, which was informative..
I'd like to see the steptoe and son one.. I heard they really hated each other years ago.
the apprentice was on , so didn't watch =)
i guess they will repeat it?
It wasn't very good. They could have focussed more on his comedy and less on his sexuality.
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