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dissolute · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:00 am Post subject:

Having see The Corridor People, I think the show would have flopped with Liz. Admittedly, her character in that show is weird but she's a very strange actor.
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Frankymole · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:35 am Post subject:

I saw one episode of The Corridor People, at Portmeirion.

I didn't feel any urge to see more. A shame, as on paper it sounded right up my street, but I found it cold and unengaging.

Same with Undermind.
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mousemeat · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:04 am Post subject:

dissolute · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:07 am Post subject:

Cold and unengaging - that would describe Liz!

mousemeat, strange in a bad way.
She's supposed to be playing this evil, calculating, manipluative beauty who can twist people around her fingers, but she just comes across as aloof and odd.
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Frankymole · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 2:34 am Post subject:

Allard · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 1:03 pm Post subject:

I quite like the Corridor People, but it is definitely to odd or experimental to be a proper tv series. Sheppard didn't put me of, but I excepted her as playing the part suitable for the series. That type of persona certainly can't work in The Avengers if you ask me.

mousemeat · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 2:55 pm Post subject:

Frankymole · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:42 am Post subject:

Yes maybe. They were moving to film and a completely different way of making the show, so it was all unknown territory. Who knows, she might've been excellent in a VT "as live" recording environment - less time to mess with the scripts and put the writers' backs up, for a start (or, that would've been a good thing - Ian Hendry did the same and reportedly improved the writers' game no end by making them angry!). Then again Honor Blackman was very at home making film series episodes (e.g. The Saint) as well as features. Some people are more adaptable than others, and in TV it's "not what you know but who you know" and annoying the people you work for is never a great career move. Diana Rigg could do it over the money in her last season as she intended to be off after 8 or 10 more episodes so didn't care what they did to her at that point!
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