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Girls On Top - The Complete Series
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GREAT TV SHOW, TERRIBLE DVD QUALITY
Review date: 2007-03-12 Rating: 4 out of 10
This is a great TV show and I was really excited to find out it would be released over here on DVD. What a disappointment, not in the show itself which I must add is brilliant but in the picture and sound department.
The picture quality is shocking, the compression is some of the worst I have seen in a long time it is worse the VHS. Shame on Network and Granada for not giving this a good re-master it deserves.
I have movies and TV series that have been released on DVD which were made over 30 years ago and they look great as they have been digitally restored in all their glory so they have no excuse to release a great TV show like this in this state.
The annoying thing is the menu and open sequences have better picture quality then the main feature, truly shocking.
Overall a very great series that deserves a better release I am very disappointed with this!
someone please release a digital re-master so it can be enjoyed as it was meant to be instead of this rubbish that has had no love or attention and could have been easily transferred from some old video tape.
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Reviews
You either love it or hate it!!
Review date: 2007-01-22 Rating: 10 out of 10
This is defiantly from the early days, and is often over looked. It has some classic lines in it and it's graced by some great actors and guest stars. For those who aren't in the know, there are four women of very different back grounds sharing an apartment and chaos regions supreme. Jenifer Saunders (Jennifer Marsh) is on top form as ever and Dawn French (Amanda Ripley) plays her part well and provides much of the energy.
Amanda Ripley has a little problem. She's managed to find herself a flat, but there's just not as much money in being a ultra-feminist protester as there used to be. So, she's had to open up her new apartment to several sub-lets. They include Shelley DuPont , Jennifer Marsh and Candice Valentine . DuPont is an unnervingly annoying American actress who just doesn't have a clue about her craft. Marsh is a rather slow childhood friend of Ripley's and she has been taken in almost as a charity rather than out of financial need. Valentine is just a flirt who just needs a place to lay her head when its not on some strange man's pillow (needless to say this goes over well with the feminist views held by Ripley). Together they get themselves into a whole mess of trouble.
If you are reading this chances are you'll know the series (short as it was), it's not Vicar of Dibley, Ab.Fab, but worth a look! This has been long awaited and myself have ran periodic searches for these DVD's and I for one am very pleased to finally own them (especially at Amazon's prices!!!!
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Jennifer Saunders
Ruby Wax
Dawn French
Tracey Ullman
Creators:
Jennifer Saunders (Primary Contributor)
Ruby Wax (Primary Contributor)
Recording label: Network
Manufacturer: Network
EAN: 5027626257446
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 2
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2007-01-22
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 325 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)