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| Author: | Madeline [ 06 Feb 13, 20:14 ] |
| Post subject: | People Like Us |
People Like Us BBC3, Wednesday 6th Fb, 9pm - 10pm Repeat: BBC3, Tomorrow, 12:30am Repeat: BBC3, Fri 8 Feb 1:55am This is an odd one to describe – on the one hand, it’s a gritty doc about lives blighted by a lack of hope, chances and ambition. But on the other, it’s constructed as a soap and peopled by larger-than-life characters whose days revolve around the launderette, the newsagent’s and the pub (or in this case the Embassy club, once owned by Bernard Manning). The setting is Harpurhey, the Manchester district once named as the most deprived neighbourhood in England. But there’s humour, too, albeit bleak: take the ecstatic Amber, who returns from a Magaluf holiday having been “banned from McDonald’s, the hotel, the nightclub…” 1/6. Documentary following the lives of young adults who have grown up in the Manchester suburb of Harpurhey, beginning with 18-year-old Amber, who has just booked a girls' holiday in Magaluf to escape a summer stuck in her family's launderette business. Discount DVD trader and ladies' man Jamie has just proposed to his girlfriend, and local newsagent David reveals how he loves to transform into his drag queen alter ego at night. Narrated by Natalie Casey. Radiotimes |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 06 Feb 13, 20:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: People Like Us |
Shopkeeper risks getting ‘bricked or bottled’ by putting on a drag show in roughest part of Manchester Sun |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 11 Feb 13, 16:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: People Like Us |
SIMON KELNER www.independent.co.uk BBC Three's new series People Like Us will remind you of Shameless. Only, this time it's real The "characters" might feel shameless, but what about the TV viewers participating this act of voyeurism from the safety of their living rooms? |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 19 Feb 13, 20:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: People Like Us |
Locals attack "biased and distorted" BBC3 series People Like Us An MP, a councillor and residents in Harpurhey, Manchester say the critically acclaimed docusoap focuses on negative stereotypes www.radiotimes.com |
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| Author: | Madeline [ 20 Feb 13, 15:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: People Like Us |
Grace Dent on TV: People Like Us The only thing missing is a Benedict Cumberbatch cameo. But could he take a shift in the Wishy Washy? GRACE DENT www.independent.co.uk |
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