Tipping The Velvet: C/D

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The adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel about a Victorian lesbian affair which started on BBC2 last night. If you saw it, what did you reckon?

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

They're doing this here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/2312943.stm

but not as well, obv. I haven't seen it, but PHWOOAR! anyway.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

damn i missed it!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

and here was me thinking this was another euphemism thread. tipping the velvet.... yeah!!

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw an itsy bitsy (?!?) of it. Fell asleep. I was, however, appalled at that re-style program. Two complete stuck-up DIMWITS being VERY rude (using words as SHAG!, ARSE and BOOBS on telly!) to a very sweet woman who felt VERY uncomfortable...

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:59 (twenty-three years ago)

well nath that was pretty much how "Tipping the Velvet" went as well hah! ;-) only with guardsmen's uniforms and Duggie out of Coronation Street.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)

The photo on the BBC site has a bit of a Robert Palmer feel to it.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

and here was me thinking this was another euphemism thread. tipping the velvet.... yeah!!

'tipping the velvet' was, apparently, a genuine victorian euphemism for 'carpet munching'.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I really don't like these abstract/watch the show!/meaningless titles. Severely. I'll watch it if/when it gets down here though, why not.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

and here was me thinking i was clever and/or funny!

what an asshole!

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

They should have called it that, "Carpet Munching".

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, that would have been better.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, i might've watch it then.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Hate Trinny and Sussanah and you hate me, Nathalie.

(actually, they are quite rude, but that's the point I think)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Graham, you are running on a high-risk strategy here.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:31 (twenty-three years ago)

they are pretty annoying. which dotcom were they behind? i remember their faces being on posters on the tube 2 yrs ago for some clothing website

― michael (michael), Thursday, 10 October 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

ready2shop.com ha ha

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 October 2002 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

they are the ultimate in rude, idiotic upper class twits, I despise them. And they don't particularly dress that well themselves, the fuckwads.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 10 October 2002 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Did the movie have the strap-on scene?

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 10 October 2002 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Susannah used to be the assistant of my friend Karen (posher than T&S put together), and is a dimwit according to K.

Haven't seen t the v, no telly until later.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 10 October 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

But Chris, that is the joy of the programme, as a fat ugly nerd with no dress sense I would be unable to watch if not for the happiness I get when T or S appears wearing a tea-cosy hat and 27 shirts of different lengths. And also for contestants who say things like, "Everyone else in Romford wears these, why can't I?" (No offence DG, I only found it so amusing because I was imagining that you'd find it misguided as was and because I was mentally substituting places I've lived in)

I haven't seen Tipping the Velvet either, but the trailers annoyed me. Maybe I mean *because* the trailers annoyed me, but also because I was too lazy, don't watch much TV any more, and never bothered to notice when it was on.

― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 10 October 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I so rarely get into a TV watching routine disciplined (ha!) enough to watch drama series. The last one I managed it for was 24, and then I missed the last three episodes. I was keen on TTV in a mildly prurient way until I realised I didn't fancy the women in the Radio Times spread at all.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 October 2002 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I only saw a few minutes of it, but I was surprised to see Eliza Doolittle as the main charecter.
Sapphic seductress: "how about we go backstage for a bit of carpet munching?"
Eliza: "Oim a good gurl, oi am, an' no mistake!"

― DavidM (DavidM), Thursday, 10 October 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I was watching house on doctor on video.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 October 2002 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I'd seen T the V. I don't know the other programme you're all on about.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 10 October 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i was watching "where the boys aren't" on video.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 11 October 2002 07:46 (twenty-three years ago)

What the Pinefox said.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 11 October 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I was watching Faking It and wondering why my director didn't have to choose camera's for me when they let me loose on the Vision Mixer with no instruction.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 11 October 2002 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

> I was surprised to see Eliza Doolittle as the main charecter.

that is actually diana rigg's daughter.

did anyone else groan at the oyster references? or i have read too much anais nin?

andy

― koogs, Friday, 11 October 2002 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes I groaned at that too. Diana Rigg's daughter does indeed uncannily resemble her - maybe with a touch of Ellix-Bextor? But that vaudeville act was dismal and would never have got anywhere near a stage even then; sort of a sub-Sackville West concept of "music hall" rather than the real thing.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 11 October 2002 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

She kept reminding me of [aargh, what's her name, Eastenders, Tiffany, arrgh, why isn't this comi...] Martine McCutcheon, although her accent wasn't as convincing. Having never experienced Victorian music hall, I can't say if Marcello's comment is fair.

I enjoyed it, though - I suspect this may be more because I seldom bother watching drama for the reasons N. mentioned, so when I do I appreciate it more (cf. theatre, cinema, anything that involves leaving the 'ouse). Keeley Hawes was a bit tasty; it looked nice; and the plot is developing nicely in a predictable, not-too-challenging potboiler kind of way. Good to watch with friends, too, especially if you can have a bit of a roll around with them :)

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 11 October 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

They promised the most explicit sex scenes ever on TV, and I felt cheated. It struck me as another skillful adaptation, though probably of something not much worth reading or adapting.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 October 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

read today that raunchier stuff is promised for the next episode.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 13 October 2002 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

haha that means I have to keep watching!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 13 October 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

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