Television just doesn't get any better than Our Friends In The North, at least not television of a serious-adult-drama nature. Impressive in breadth and scale (it covers more than thirty years in the lives of four friends) it was, in my view, the making of its stars - Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Daniel Craig and the ever-wonderful Gina McKee (who won a best-actress BAFTA for her role). And I don't even feel slightly miffed that this is being released (on the 27th, but you can pre-order it now) just a couple of months after I had spent hours painstakingly transcribing an old begged/borrowed/stolen VHS copy onto DVD... because of course that gave me an excuse to watch the whole glorious thing again...
They don't make TV like this any more... a pity...
Hasn't this ever been released on DVD before? How bizarre.
ReplyDeleteIt was but then (I guess) got deleted. I did a search for it a few months back on eBay, where it was commanding ludicrous prices. Nice to see it getting a re-release then...
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