Waking The Dead Axed by the BBC
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tomk1of1 — 12 years ago(July 07, 2013 01:58 PM)
i think luther is a good series..although i didn't see the last yr..i love the waking dead,watching on netflex for the 2nd time after a 3 yr wait. but they are only offering 5 yrs..? somethimes the drama is a bit contrived,but that is very commom..i wish netflex would obtain the rest of the series. the american broadcasters seem to cancell all the wrong programs too..there are prob so many things we will never be privy to of course..so this isn't something isolated to the bbc..i am partial tho the british crime dramas,well most of the british farein general.
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james_89 — 15 years ago(December 05, 2010 01:33 PM)
Ridiculous.
Waking the Dead only gets better and better, there is absolutely no need to end it when it continues to be so amazing.
Do they not give a toss about the millions of loyal viewers?
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hellsbells265 — 15 years ago(January 08, 2011 03:12 AM)
Oh no! I hadn't heard this, now I'm bummed out. I hate that they cancel good shows but keep making rubbish reality ones. They had better make the last series awesome!
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msvat02 — 15 years ago(March 15, 2011 05:01 AM)
How can they do that?!?! It's by far one of the best TV series I've seen. No magic, simple deduction and logic. I live in Brazil, very far away from BBC if one considers a marked flooded by American shows. I just discovered the series on DVD and I'm in love with it. It's brilliant! Back to trash, again
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diayag — 15 years ago(March 23, 2011 10:08 PM)
I beg to differ with all of you. I am slogging through this series mostly out of nostalgia for what it once was, but it had gotten pretty bad last series and I'm surprised they put out another one. Someone has a pronounced heterophobia at BBC, not to mention reveling in darkness and misery; so much of what they are pumping out is pure **** (fill in your favorite expletive). I went off Being Human after season 1, sick of seeing Russell Tovey's arse in nearly every episode. Obviously aimed at a specific audience. Waking the Dead was that way last season, with sympathetic poor homosexual son and compassionate dad who was all accepting and everything, and yet and this season you have a murderous mother in the first two parter, a murderous and incestual "family" in the second. Clearly the only good life and good people are NOT heterosexual, NOT married and NOT procreating. And children's caregivers must have a nasty agenda or covering guilt. How relevant and uplifting. Programming to a small audience may be part of the BBC remit, but no one should be shocked when the rest of us get sick of it. If they are giving Tara a spin-off,it better be more interesting than her role has been in this series or it'll be a one-off. Her role has been so limited. Her bug farm was the first spark of life her character had, and it's been missing so far this season.
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Sleepin_Dragon — 15 years ago(March 24, 2011 10:00 AM)
I am sad to see it go, as grudginly as i am to admit it I agree with you series 8 was poor by the series standards, ive loved the first two eps of this series, back to form it seems, I disagree strongly about Eve, the character is great much better then the previous, and she is a strong (very) actress. It is still better then Law and Order UK, Taggart, currently Midsomer and every similar programme on, maybe exception of last series of Silent Witness, come on Beeb reconsider please. You think a drama about a bug farm will be any more cheerful, that I seriously doubt.
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Sleepin_Dragon — 15 years ago(March 29, 2011 10:43 AM)
I think every episode has been unbelievably good, I defy anyone not to enjoy, the show has had violence in it throughout, I loved Wire in the Blood that had major violence in it, not a sign of fatigue i think just a sign of the times.
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joseph-wyatt-677-63838 — 15 years ago(March 29, 2011 04:02 PM)
"It's become unwatchable due to the utterly repulsive violence and almost pointlessly sick plotlines."
Can't say I've picked up on that at all. Is it really any sicker or more repulsive than any other television serial out there? Could you point me to an episode from this current series which makes you feel that way? Because, though it's as dark as ever and has always been bleaker than a lot of other series, I've never thought it was to a wholly unbelievable level. It certainly doesn't revel in its gore like, say, a Zack Snyder film would.
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nikolina-sarcevic — 14 years ago(April 07, 2011 02:48 PM)
I don't wanna be rude or anyhing but if u choose to watch show entitled "waking the dead" n the show is in fact about cadavers u don't expect unicorns and rainbows flyin 'round the screen, right?
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