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Other Topics => Entertainment - Movies / TV / Books => Topic started by: freshlettuce on November 07, 2003, 12:41:37 pm
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Remember this show??? It was adorable. Whatever happened to these kids? Anyone have a favorite ghostwriter team member? :D
The actress who played Lenni always looked like a mini Tracey Ullman to me. Anyone else agree with me? Tracey could have played her long lost mother.
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Ghostwriter was the best damn TV show ever when I was like 10! And it still rules!...
But I can't find it anywhere to save my life anymore.
I can't really remember much about the show either...
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My favorite ghostwriter was Rob. Alas, he was only there for a year. How sad. He was the only one I thought was cute. *sigh* :(
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i loved that show came on pbs or something didn't it? it wasn't on nickleodeon or any of those networks - but i do remember it being really good but i dont really remember the charachters
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Ghostwriter re-runs are on Noggin, an off shoot of nickelodeon that's usually on digital cable--they also show Degrassi, Clarissa, Daria, and The Adventures of Pete&Pete.
LMAO at Tracey Ulman, it's really true! I used to have a HUGE crush on Alex. I know that the woman who played Jamal's grandmother also played the principal on City Guys, but I haven't seen any other actors from the show. BUT! On the episodes where Lenny gets to shoot a video for one of her songs the woman who played the record company exec. used to be on Dinner and Movie on TBS or TNT or something.
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LMAO at Tracey Ulman, it's really true! I used to have a HUGE crush on Alex.
Ooh, while looking through the IMDB to figure out if the ghostwriter kids have been working lately I discovered that Alex (whom many a pubescent girl had a crush on -- not me though, Rob was my man as I confessed above) is Colombian. Hah! Shout out to my coffee peeps! :bday:
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that show was awesome!
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omg I was obsessed with Ghostwriter. I used to have my own casebook.
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omg I was obsessed with Ghostwriter. I used to have my own casebook.
so did my sister and I!
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omg I was obsessed with Ghostwriter. I used to have my own casebook.
so did my sister and I!
8)
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Uhhhh the show with the kids who wore the pens around their necks?
I used to do that . . .I thought I was so cool
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I, uh, never seen that show. I liked the asian girl. Not that I've seen that show or anything. I mean, why would I?
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I, uh, never seen that show. I liked the asian girl. Not that I've seen that show or anything. I mean, why would I?
her name was Tina, her family was Vietnamese. I liked her older brother.
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That show was the shiznat! I hardly remember anything about it ... but I do remember there was this one girl who was really fine lol. I cannot remember her name though :?
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Ghostwriter.....I love that old school show! Its the greatest =)
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I, uh, never seen that show. I liked the asian girl. Not that I've seen that show or anything. I mean, why would I?
Remember when Alex and Tina were suddenly an item? I remember an episode when they awkwardly kissed while on the steps of a brownstone. *grimace*
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GHOSTWRITER!! That show was such a legend, it was shown here too. Buuut, i never really got the point of it- it was only ever on BBC when i was ill and i tried so hard to follow the storyline but i was like 'computers? notes? pens? arghhh confused!'- maybe i was too young? I also don't remember them being American at ALL.
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GHOSTWRITER!! That show was such a legend, it was shown here too. Buuut, i never really got the point of it- it was only ever on BBC when i was ill and i tried so hard to follow the storyline but i was like 'computers? notes? pens? arghhh confused!'- maybe i was too young? I also don't remember them being American at ALL.
Maybe you had a different cast. Like Coupling here in the US. Or maybe you saw the episode when ghostwriter had to go to the past or something. Not that I watch the show or anything. I mean why would I? Please.
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Like Coupling here in the US.
Oh it was bloody amazing here! I hear it was very poor over there. *sigh*
Or maybe you saw the episode when ghostwriter had to go to the past or something.
Why would Ghostwriter having to go into the past suddenly make them all English!? 8O
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rosie it's funny because --- well --- coupling was the british version of friends - it's been stated by the creators they wanted a british version of friends --- but then coupling was such a hit we tried to recreate a british recreation of friends - and it just sucked!!!!
the actors weren't that great - it seemed really overacted, etc...
and the script sucked - was tooooo cheesey
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Why would Ghostwriter having to go into the past suddenly make them all English!? 8O
the story was that the kids in NYC found a journal or something and uncoverd this story about something that had happened in the house in the 1900's where one of the kids lived (jamal?). So Ghostwriter was able to jump into the journal and travel between the two times because he was special like that. But I don't think he traveled to England. The kids were defiantely American.
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rosie it's funny because --- well --- coupling was the british version of friends - it's been stated by the creators they wanted a british version of friends --- but then coupling was such a hit we tried to recreate a british recreation of friends - and it just sucked!!!!
the actors weren't that great - it seemed really overacted, etc...
and the script sucked - was tooooo cheesey
Wow. I just wrote an incredibly long reply to this thread and just got disconnected from the Internet. Rather than crying, I will give you now the abridged version of what I just spent too much time composing.
1) I absolutely love British Coupling with the entirety of my soul. :bday: :bday: :bday:
2) Poor Rosie has had to listen to my superfluous adoration of the BBC America channel (which brings me British Coupling) on prior occasions. For that I apologize. I will continue to sing the praises of this channel anyway, and implore nessaholics everywhere to light a candle to the satellite service that brings BBC America into my home every day of the year.
3) I agree with Steph that American Coupling was very BLAH. The acting was poor. The actors could not convince me that they were the characters.
I disagree with Steph that the script sucked. American Coupling uses almost exactly the same script as the British version, and the British version of the same episode is never as bad as what we were subjected to on NBC.
Okay, yes, I admit some little things are different in the script. American Coupling did add in a tidbit or two to make things "sexier". I imagine they'd have to change all of the references to British celebrities as well because I do NOT know who Brit Eckland is. Do you? Middle America won't know either. Help, please. Who is this mysterious British celebrity?
4) Why I love British Coupling: Situation comedies rarely make me laugh aloud. Fucking Friends doesn't make me laugh aloud. British Coupling is so well acted and well written that I laugh throughout the entire episode. The writing is so clever. You cannot tell me that there is anything wrong with the scripts - especially when I watch the American Coupling's pilot episode and then I watch the same episode of British Coupling and everything is the same...only British Coupling is a thousand times better.
5) The character of the goofy male friend who has trouble with the ladies cannot possibly translate to an American version properly. The American actor played that role like he was a normal person. The British actor is always spazzing about and he's so good at being a naive outsider...maybe it's the accent? His not being "English"? I don't know how the American version could recreate that. Maybe by bringing in a Canadian?
6) Okay, I admit that I'm biased. Coupling to me is the British version. That's all I've known. And it cannot be recreated because those British actors are not actors to me, they are those characters.
7) Yeah, I know this is the Ghostwriter thread. But hey, I created it. So there. I can digress if I want to. Besides, I don't think there are enough of us Coupling fans out there to create a proper Coupling thread.
Or is there? ooooh?
PS
I love Graham Norton.
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2) Poor Rosie has had to listen to my superfluous adoration of the BBC America channel (which brings me British Coupling) on prior occasions. For that I apologize. I will continue to sing the praises of this channel anyway, and implore nessaholics everywhere to light a candle to the satellite service that brings BBC America into my home every day of the year.
PS
I love Graham Norton.
Well, i must say that you can go on about it ALL you like because i am SO proud of the BBC- more than you can imagine. The idea that there are Americans loving the TV that we created brings tears to my eyes! Have you seen 'My Family'? You might find that quite funny too, oh and you'd ADORE '2 Pints of Larger and a Packet of Crisps'- SUCH a funny show, kind of along the same lines of Coupling. 'Teachers' is similar too, but has the funniest edge to it- they all work in a school (d'uh) but each show has a random theme, like last week in each scene there were dwarves! Like they were the cleaners, or when they were in the pub there were dwarves fighting. Ahhh too.funny.can't.take.it. hee hee
Oh and i <3 Graham Norton too. He is coming to America as far as i know- and he is shown on BBC America but his show is shown on Channel 4 here- its on every night now.
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the BBC comes on digital cable as well, and if you live in New York, on our loooooovely Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) station every night from 7-10 p.m. Keeping Up Appearances and Bally Kissangel all the way 8)