Victoria Wood - Acorn Antiques (DVD)

This really deserves rewatching. Victoria Wood's spoof on the ropey daytime soaps of the 70s stands the test of time and is as funny as it was when it came out. Wood's loving but savage homage to Crossroads revolves around the earth shattering dramas that plague Acorn Antiques. Infedility, questionable parentages, macaroons, all of life is here. Wobbly sets, rubbish camerawork, fluffed lines, it must have been hard work making TV this bad/good. Julie Walters steals the show as Mrs Overall, the hunched stalwart tealady always ready with a cup of tea and a badly scripted bon mot. One of the funniest bits of the whole dvd is where the ...  Read the complete review

Wobbly sets, hammy acting and fluffed lines. Still, enough about Holby City, I'm going to talk about 'Acorn Antiques', one of those comedy moments that you're unlikely to see on TV ever again. 'Acorn Antiques' was a segment of Victoria Wood's 'As Seen On TV' series, which aired on BBC TV in the mid 1980's. It was a spoof soap set in an antique shop in Manchesterford, which poked fun particularly at 'Crossroads'. It gained a cult following and the whole series has been released onto VHS video for you to watch over and over again. Each of the 12 or so episodes is about 5 minutes long, enough to make the jokes ...  Read the complete review