06Jun
Alexei Sayle’s Liverpool
posted by Russell Davies
Clever comedians. That’s who you need presenting your television programmes. That whole generation of clever alternative comedians from the 80s turn out to be the perfect people to do telly. They can talk well to camera, they can do a laugh and some pathos and they can compress a lot of meaning into the spaces between the impressive camera work. Alexei Sayle goes back to Liverpool for this series and does a really good job. He discovers things, explains things and even seems to learn things. You get all the Liverpool cliches: Beatles, dockers, footie, riots, shell-suits but he manages to turn the cliches back into interesting truths. This is top telly.
3 comments
Damn, you beat me to this. It was great though. Glad there’s more of it to come.
I am a scouser in exile in London. I also left Liverpool to find fame and fortune in the creative arts field. I go back regularly and find that more and more I want to move back. You see, it’s where my heart is and there’s a real feeling of belonging each time I return. In the last episode this evening Alexei seemed to say it all – for all its faults it’s still home.
I missed the last eposite is it ever likely to be repeated