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posted at 17:01:29
By Flipping Heck!

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I watched the ITV "Drama" last night called "Planespotting" - I would put a link to it but the ITV website will only provide a link to the DIY Website run by Screwfix for some reason.

I wonder how many people tuned in thinking that it was going to be the Aircraft equivalent of Irvine Welsh's "Trainspotting" and were disappointed.

For those of you who haven't a clue what I'm on about, the film was concerned with a group of people who went on holiday to Greece to collect the registration numbers of aeroplanes. Sounds like a fun hobby I might take up. Anyway, they were seen going around a military airbase looking dodgy and so were thrown into prison. I can't remember for how long now as I fell asleep. They were charged with espionage and then were eventually aquitted after a million years of legal arguments (slight exaggeration).

The thing that got me, and made me want to blog about something so odd, is the way that the characters in the film were portrayed. It's based on a true story and if I were in that film I would be most upset with the way ITV made it. Firstly all the characters came across as complete dorks - which they may well be being planespotters - but I'm pretty sure they could talk about more than just planes. Secondly the woman in the film would never, everhave stayed married to that moron if he took her planespotting on a honeymoon - I mean, would you?

Thirdly, and most importantly, it had the annoying and irritating idiot from the Hellman's Mayonnaise commercials in it (you know the one - the "Big Dollop") and the minute he opened his gob I just couldn't take the show seriously any more. Plus Lesley Sharp and Mark Benton who played the lead couple had this weird accent thing going on that made them sound as though they were on some sort of sleeping draught.

It could have been a very good show, it could have shown that planespotters weren't sad anoraks but it did exactly the opposite for me. I think ITV missed a very good opportunity there.

Let's hope that their drama next week (Which I believe is called "The Walk" but once more can't find any information on their website) is a little more thought out.

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