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DW in new comedy series

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Suky

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Date Posted: 10:55:55 04/20/05 Wed

According to a BBC press release (www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/ stories/2005/03_march/16/bbctwo_part2.pdf), David Warner will be appearing in a new comedy series set to start this season. Here is the description:

"SENSITIVE SKIN
Suddenly it's sexy to be 60, in this dark comedy starring Joanna Lumley and Denis Lawson. Sensitive Skin looks at life through the eyes of a successful couple living in metropolitan London. Al and Davina Jackson struggle with sexual temptation and professional jealously and try to cope with their fear of the future. Al is a pundit for a broadsheet newspaper and is paid to find imperfection in everything; Davina works in an art gallery and is paid to make life more beautiful. But being 60 isn't simple. The couple's 30-year-old son, Orlando, refuses to acknowledge adulthood, while Davina's sister, Veronica, and her husband, Roger, intimidate the Jacksons with their confident and controlled grasp of life. Davina is played by Joanna Lumley, Al by Denis Lawson, Orlando by James Lance, Roger by Nicholas Jones and Veronica by Maggie Steed. Frances de la Tour, David Warner and Sir Jonathan Miller also star.
Sensitive Skin is written, produced and directed by Hugo Blick (Marion & Geoff/Up In Town)."

Unfortunately, it's not clear whether DW will be a regular or a guest star. Hopefully it's the former! Now if we could just get the series over here in the U.S. ... BBC America, if you're listening ... !

If anyone here gets to see it, *please* tell us all about it!

Thanks are due again to Cinephilia for tipping me off to this--I bow to you, O great oracle of all things cinematic ... and literary! :-)

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[> Subject: Sensitive Skin review

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Suky
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Date Posted: 21:10:20 10/31/06 Tue

I finally ran across an Australian review of the show. Sounds like the only thing they liked about it was David Warner and Joanna Lumley. (And that he's only in one episode.)

http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/sensitive-skin/2006/09/28/1159337267267.html

"'I know a classic when I see one,' says Robert [DW], ostensibly about literature but with a lascivious look at Davina [Lumley]. Only Warner and the deliciously deep-throated Lumley could make such self-aware drivel sound poetic."

Typical!

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[> [> Subject: Re: Sensitive Skin review
Author: Jan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12:34:19 11/07/06 Tue The series got good reviews here in the UK. The Times especially raved about it & a second series is in production now. It is mainly a showcase for the fabulous Lumley though. David Warner only made an appearance in the second episode, but he was very funny as a hypochrondriac author. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]