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[url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/19/trip-to-spain-rob-brydon-steve-coogan-i-like-it-when-people-think-this-is-real ]On Sky sadly[/url]
I like Coogan:
“This might be a controversial thing to say, but the culinary tastes of working-class people in some of our neighbouring countries seems to be more sophisticated. Or, let me put it another way, the multinational conglomerate conspiracy to shove crap food down people’s throats is less successful in places like Spain and Italy, because not that they seek out fresh food, it’s just that it’s part of the culture, and it hasn’t really changed very much. You might think of a traditional British place, you might think of a greasy spoon maybe, whereas in Italy and Spain you have tapas food which is just really unadulterated by crap. It’s changing in Britain, but it has been for a long time that among working people food has been just sustenance to give the energy to work and get you through the day, and if it tasted nice that was a sort of bonus, wasn’t it?”
How do they feel about the move of channels?
“Rob feels fine, I feel awkward,” Coogan says firmly, within ear of the Sky press officer. Brydon laughs. “Because you’re more nuanced?” he asks. “No,” Coogan says, “because I don’t like Rupert Murdoch.”
its not coming on proper telly.
For a man who was a face of hacked off i can't fathom how he can also rationalise taking coin from another bit of murdoch for all his programmes.
Read that quote above, or better still read the article.
The series would have been on the BBC, Brydon explains, but the corporation wasn’t prepared to pay. “Essentially they wanted us to do it for less money than last time,” he says. “It’s a quality thing, and it seems like a very bad precedent to set, for everyone, making every programme, if you say, ‘We can give you the same thing for less money.’ Where does that end?”Coogan smiles. “I wish more people watched Sky,” he says, more gently. “That’s another thing. But maybe they will when The Trip goes out.” He has, after all, already publicly labelled the show “Last of the Summer Wine for Guardian readers”. “It’s my theory that a lot of people who like The Trip are the very demographic who are resolutely non-Sky subscribers. So I think we might just be a cynical ploy by Sky to get them to adopt the platform. If they manage to do that I’ll be very impressed. But it wouldn’t sway me.”
I'm a huge fan of both Brydon and Coogan, the original Trip was hilarious, the Italian one spoiled a little by Coogans son appearing, but this looks ferkin excellent. I've the box sets of the previous, this will be added.
Can't wait.
Brilliant PSA btw.