Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV

Victoria Wood is a superb comic and very talented. This show was a mixture of her performing some stand up direct to camera and also a series of sketches involving a number of different characters. As a story teller Victoria Wood is excellent, she has a down to earth approach and can be quite self critical, she is also very talented at performing comic songs as well and her writing is very creative. However despite these talents for me the highlight of every episode was the excellent spoof soap opera called Acorn Antiques. Set in an antique shop this was a paraody of most soap operas but in particular the old ITV soap opera Crossroads which was ...  Read the complete review