Review: Gavin & Stacey – Series Two

Gavin & Stacey : Complete BBC Series 2

Do you know what my wife said when she saw this had arrived through the post? "Oh, lush."

I’m not saying she is Joanna Page or Stacey, just that sometimes the similarities get a little spooky.

Anyway: Gavin & Stacey, bit of a sleeper hit during its first series on BBC3, won surprising amounts of awards, then suddenly went through the roof during series two, which went on to win even more awards.

Now series two is going to be repeated on BBC1 (starting this Friday) just in time for a Christmas special, also to be aired on BBC1, and for this DVD release.

It’s a lovely little sitcom about a girl from Wales and a boy from SE England who meet, fall in love and get married (rings some bells. Hmm). But as the tag line almost says, it’s not just the two of them and the story is as much about their best friends and family as it is about them.

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rullsenberg): Andrew Marr

David Tennant on Andrew Marr's breakfast show

Today’s Sitting Tennant comes courtesy of Ms Rullsenberg and sees the Labour-supporting David Tennant enjoying himself thoroughly sitting next to current London mayor and arch-Conservative (and arch conservative) Boris Johnson on Andrew Marr’s breakfast show. Captions please.

That gives us the current Sitting Tennant league tables: for pictures, Rosby’s still in the lead on seven entries, but now Rullsenberg is just half a point behind on six and a half points and Persephone isn’t too far away on five and a half points. Toby has five, Poly and Scott both have three and a half points each, Jane has two and a half, Anna has one and a half, while Marie has one.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table is getting tighter, too. Toby is king of the hill with 19 captions but Marie is queen on 12. Persephone is on 10 captions, Jane Henry is very close behind on nine and a half, Rullsenberg has seven and a half, Electric Dragon and Rev are now tied on four entries, and Poly and Stu_N are marooned on one each.

As always, keep your eyes peeled for any new pictures of David Tennant sitting down that you can find, and keep coming up with those captions – there’ll be bonus points for topical captions and pictures if you can find them.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.

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Children in Need Doctor Who

So what were we all thinking about the clip from the Doctor Who Christmas Special on Children in Need yesterday?

Me?

  1. Two minutes? That was a bit short, particularly since Rusty had already described everything in it in numerous interviews.
  2. Doesn’t it suggest that The Next Doctor, as Mark and I hinted, might turn out to be just a little bit like Big Finish’s The One Doctor?

I’ve embedded the clip below in case you missed it.