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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 252039" data-attributes="member: 23">I somehow missed this post, [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER], so apologies for the delayed reply:Yes. It&#039;s funny, but now I&#039;ve started watching As Seen On TV I have mixed feelings about Wood &amp; Walters. There&#039;s part of me that can appreciate even more what the series was trying to be, and to recognise that some scenes were actually really good. But there&#039;s part of me that sees ASOTV where almost everything works and can&#039;t get over the difference in quality to the point I&#039;m already questioning if Wood &amp; Walters was as mediocre as I remember.I think a great deal of it has to do with the balance. Wood &amp; Walters was a lot of random sketches with a little bit of familiarity each week (Dotty&#039;s Slot and the songs). With As Seen On TV it&#039;s the other way round. The random, off the wall stuff is the exception and it works better because everything around it is familiar so there&#039;s something to keep the audience invested. It&#039;s a small detail, but it makes a big difference.Ha ha. She&#039;d previously appeared in the sequel to Talent, while Percy himself was in the original film. I immediately associate them with Corrie, but of course before that they&#039;d had very long careers in music hall and the Northern entertainment circuit, which is presumably what got them onto Granada&#039;s radar and their material with Vic and then Corrie.It&#039;s really interesting to see this side to them.[MEDIA=youtube]SA6ILUxKL2s[/MEDIA]I remember being quite shocked when Bill Waddington was so animated and lively when he appeared on a Corrie actor&#039;s This Is Your Life because I so associate him with stuffy Percy.Oh yes. Same here. It makes me immediately nostalgic, even though I know next to nothing about who Geoff Posner is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 252039, member: 23"] I somehow missed this post, [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER], so apologies for the delayed reply: Yes. It's funny, but now I've started watching [I]As Seen On TV [/I]I have mixed feelings about [I]Wood & Walters[/I]. There's part of me that can appreciate even more what the series was trying to be, and to recognise that some scenes were actually really good. But there's part of me that sees ASOTV where almost everything works and can't get over the difference in quality to the point I'm [U]already[/U] questioning if [I]Wood & Walters[/I] was as mediocre as I remember. I think a great deal of it has to do with the balance. [I]Wood & Walters [/I]was a lot of random sketches with a little bit of familiarity each week (Dotty's Slot and the songs). With [I]As Seen On TV [/I]it's the other way round. The random, off the wall stuff is the exception and it works better because everything around it is familiar so there's something to keep the audience invested. It's a small detail, but it makes a big difference. Ha ha. She'd previously appeared in the sequel to [I]Talent[/I], while Percy himself was in the original film. I immediately associate them with [I]Corrie[/I], but of course before that they'd had very long careers in music hall and the Northern entertainment circuit, which is presumably what got them onto Granada's radar and their material with Vic and then [I]Corrie[/I]. It's really interesting to see this side to them. [CENTER][MEDIA=youtube]SA6ILUxKL2s[/MEDIA][/CENTER] I remember being quite shocked when Bill Waddington was so animated and lively when he appeared on a [I]Corrie[/I] actor's [I]This Is Your Life[/I] because I so associate him with stuffy Percy. Oh yes. Same here. It makes me immediately nostalgic, even though I know next to nothing about who Geoff Posner is. [/QUOTE]

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