May 3rd, The Day Foster's will End

[Mew]

In the Episodes for Download thread, in the General Board =).
And hey, the US doesn't get all of the great shows - after all, we've got the Royle Family =P.

[WiltGirl]

the royel family? never heard of it. i guess it isnt to do with fhfif but wat is the royel family?
and thx for pointin me in the right direction!
WG

[jekylljuice]

Originally Posted by WiltGirl

the royel family? never heard of it. i guess it isnt to do with fhfif but wat is the royel family?
and thx for pointin me in the right direction!
WG

An unconventional sitcom written by and starring Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, alongside Ricky Tomlinson.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theroylefamily/index.shtml

EDIT: Keep in mind that the above article is a bit out of date. There has been another RF special since, as well as an additional Comic Relief sketch.

[WiltGirl]

ooooooo, i now which one you mean. i just need to see a pic and i knew straight away. i thought u might have been talking about sum spin off 'my family'. which is a very good english program! (if its english and i didnt just make a stupid comment. lol)
but america has the best cartoons! is there an english cartoon that popular?
WOO FHFIF AND TMNT!
WG

[jekylljuice]

Well, there's Aardman's output. It's stop motion rather than "cartoon" in the strictest sense, but I consider the Wallace and Gromit shorts (and feature film) to be among some of the finest animated films ever made.`

[WiltGirl]

you said it! wallace and gromit rocks. but as u said, their animation. i cant think of a british cartoon thats not been totally weird/bad. alot of kids cartoons now are actually from places like spain, and yes i speak of pocoyo.
but fhfif is one of the best cartoons eva, and since we can get it in the uk, (even if it is by downloading from the internet by this site) i guess i cant really complain.....





yes i can. lol, lucky americans!
WG

[jekylljuice]

Originally Posted by WiltGirl

you said it! wallace and gromit rocks. but as u said, their animation. i cant think of a british cartoon thats not been totally weird/bad.

You clearly missed out on Pinny's House, King Rollo, The Dreamstone, The Animals of Farthing Wood (bar series 3), the old-school Cosgrove Hall productions and the like...a lot of stuff which I grew up on in the late 80s/early 90s, and which is now long gone and isn't coming back (luckily we'd acquired a VHS recorder before they completely drifted from the air). I can't speak much for the state of current UK kids' television, since I now don't watch a huge deal of television, period. Still, Charlie and Lola seems nice enough. On the whole, I think that stop motion is the animation medium which we've done best with, giving rise to such creations as W&G, Morph and Creature Comforts, and it's far from confined to what Aardman Studios have done (plus you can consider the range of one-off 2d animated instalments, like the various Raymond Briggs adaptations, many of which are now classics).

Oh how far off-topic we must have come...

[Ridureyu]

I liked the Discworld animated adaptations, except that the actual animation quality was abysmally poor.

[jekylljuice]

Originally Posted by Ridureyu

I liked the Discworld animated adaptations, except that the actual animation quality was abysmally poor.

Discworld (the TV series) was one of Cosgrove Hall's, I believe. They're probably most famous for their 80s cartoons DangerMouse and Count Duckula, both of which featured leading voice-work from David Jason. The animation quality there might seem a little crude nowadays (particularly when compared to something as fluid as Foster's), but it still beat the pants off most product-based cartoon shows of the decade.

[WiltGirl]

Originally Posted by jekylljuice

You clearly missed out on Pinny's House, King Rollo, The Dreamstone, The Animals of Farthing Wood (bar series 3), the old-school Cosgrove Hall productions and the like...a lot of stuff which I grew up on in the late 80s/early 90s, and which is now long gone and isn't coming back (luckily we'd acquired a VHS recorder before they completely drifted from the air).

I forgot about the animals of farthing wood, i love that tv show and the books. i dont regonise the others but that did also remind me of watership down. which i did like! i think thats english. plus ther was the cartoon series 'the spider' which i think was english which was very good.
its a shame none of these old shows arnt coming back because they were much better than sum rubbish you see today. of course not including fhfif in that.
we have kinda gone off topic havent we? lol.
its nice to know though that others remember these old shows.

WG