Talking heads list programmes

[philmophlegm]

I watched the end of one these tonight. You know the sort of thing - get a bunch of B- and C-listers to reminisce on telly. A cheap way for Channel 4 or 5 (or in this case Sky One) to fill an evening's prgramming. Tonight's was something along the line of 'Best TV endings' or something.

I figured it would be interesting enough, and was interested to see what would be second - could it perhaps be Blake's 7? Obviously MASH would be first by a mile.



But no! Blake's 7 wasn't in the top 21 (which is where I came in), meaning that it came behind Richard and Judy, for f**k's sake. MASH was sixth. SIXTH!

Life on Mars won. Don't get me wrong, I loved Life on Mars, but the ending was fairly predictable, and most of the best characters came back for another series anyway.

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Recency effect?

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Oh, almost certainly.

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

Did Blackadder Goes Forth get anywhere?

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

From memory, it was certainly in the top ten. I think it was beaten by Richard Curtis's rather less esteemed other sitcom though - that one with the fat woman vicar. The ending of that, in which she marries Guy of Gisburne and then flies away (???) inexplicably came very high up.