Batchelors Walk Christmas special- opinions

swingking

Just watched the christmas special of batchelors walk and I must say, it was done very well. The story was brief but effective and there was enough jokes in it to keep the audience amused

Guy:Incognito

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i forgot all about it. damn damn damn.


Any chance it's being repeated any time soon?

PullMyFinger!

I wanted to watch it but kept getting distracted by visitors so only saw bits and pieces. Hopefully they'll repeat it soon.

Does anyone know what the DVD status of series 2 is? It was never released AFAIK.

Kojak

swingking wrote:

Just watched the christmas special of batchelors walk and I must say, it was done very well. The story was brief but effective and there was enough jokes in it to keep the audience amused

Agreed - pretty good

Vokes

Only caught the last 15mins

But what little i saw was pretty good.

lockon...

Forgot how good it was:D

V1llianous

Darn it I missed it too.

Anyone have a recording if so PM me please.

chalkitdown1

V1llianous wrote:

Darn it I missed it too.

Anyone have a recording if so PM me please.

I've it recorded on Sky+ but I dunno how PM-ing you is gonna help.

'twas good, btw.

emeraldstar

Stekelly wrote:

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i forgot all about it. damn damn damn.


Any chance it's being repeated any time soon?

it's on in a few days as far as I remember...possibly around new years? i dunno, check the tv guide.

sdanseo

It's repeated on Friday, 11.45pm, RTE2

chalkitdown1 wrote:

'twas good, btw.

Yup.

Snake Plisken

yeah thought it was quite good although I thought it could have done with an extra half an hour as it looked like some of the back stories seemed to be cut out to fit it into the 1 hour. Its a pity they couldn't continue it on into a series three as it was interesting to see how the 3 of their lives hadn't really moved on now that they had reached their mid-30's.

Snake

chalkitdown1

Snake Plisken wrote:

yeah thought it was quite good although I thought it could have done with an extra half an hour as it looked like some of the back stories seemed to be cut out to fit it into the 1 hour. Its a pity they couldn't continue it on into a series three as it was interesting to see how the 3 of their lives hadn't really moved on now that they had reached their mid-30's.

Snake

You mean 4?

PullMyFinger!

chalkitdown1 wrote:

You mean 4?

Nope, 3

And again: Does anyone know what the DVD status of series 2 is? It was never released AFAIK

irishgeo

any body going to go to be able to put it as a torrent i wont get to see it friday either.

Jerichoholic

I missed it also, surely someone has torrented it, if CrappynaScully can get one, Bachelors Walk should have one.

Desperate here.

atomised

I'm sorry to say that it just didn't live up to expectations. It tried to do too much in the 50 odd minutes and ended up giving us a pastiche of the real thing. The humour was largely slapstick and it was in too much of a hurry to pause and allow us to care for any of the characters' fates. All was explained when the credits rolled -- instead of the original 3 writers (who each took responsibility for a character) this special was written by john Carney alone. In other words, calling this Batchelors Walk is a bit like billing Paul McCartney as the Beatles...

Bateman

Raging I missed it, I was totally engrossed in the darts.

iguana

PullMyFinger! wrote:

Nope, 3

There were already 3 series of Bachelors Walk.

Series 1 was really good, series 2 was meh and series 3 was pretty pants.

is_that_so

Repeated on RTE 2 tonight @23.45

Rb

is_that_so wrote:

Repeated on RTE 2 tonight @23.45

Enjoyed it, and the show as a whole.

Jerichoholic

It was good, but could have easily been 2 hours instead of one. Why hasn't series 2 and 3 been out on DVD? Also why was it never shown on BBC since they paid for it?

sweetie

was wondering that myself too

Custodian

The Christmas show was really great, loved seeing the boys back in town.
I’ve heard it was the last one, but I really hope there’s another down the line at some stage.

iguana

Jerichoholic wrote:

Also why was it never shown on BBC since they paid for it?

BBC only co-financed the 1st series and it was very unpopular with them. They made a different ending for the first series. The three boys were crying in the house on RTE, but on BBC while they were crying Allison showed up at the door and she and Raymond lived happily ever after. Then they never wanted anything more to do with it. The 2nd and 3rd series were made on very low budgets.

Bateman

Saw the repeat and thought it was well worth doing. "What the f**k am I going to do in Spain?" was definitely the highlight.

Thought it was alright, but was annoyed that they ended up in Rathfarnham Church while pretending it was near Bray. But that's just me.

Vokes

Rathfarnham Church? I thought it was the one in Shankill ?

Anyone have a link for the Series 1 DVD ? Thanks

SofaKing

SofaKing wrote:

Rathfarnham Church? I thought it was the one in Shankill ?

Definitely Rathfarnham Church. 'Tis opposite the Yellow House, and the camera was aimed so you wouldn't see it as they left the grounds

Pic here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishchurches/RC%20Churches/Rathfarnham.jpg