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When is this happening?!

Anyway APPARENTLY Gillian Anderson will be playing Margaret Thatcher in series 4.

I hope they show It's A Knockout.
 
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17 November
 
I guess it's difficult to find actors who look like they're the result of twenty generations of rigorous inbreeding, but that's some flattering casting.
 
Didn't Diana call her The Rottweiler?

A bit unfair and unnecessary I think. She clearly looks more like a Bloodhound.
 
We do boast one of the highest inbreeding rates in history. But my mum was an OUTSIDER thanks!

Oh but don't worry Sheena. You're just as special. Parents or not (I'm guessing not).
 
So Gillian Anderson playing Thatcher in S4 is a thrilling prospect.

When does this shit start? I am unreasonably excited.
 
Hoping we're gonna get Princess Margaret during her feral days sipping cocktails on the beach and fucking rock stars.

Of course we are.
 
Imelda Staunton will do seasons 5&6
 
That's not in it? How DISAPPOINTING

I watched the first EP and while OLIVIA COLMAN is better than I was expecting, I'm still not really FEELING HER QUEEN
 
I’ve given the crown several attempts but really can’t get into it. I watched the moon landing episode but only because my landlord plays one of the astronauts, and I need his career to go well so he doesn’t sell my flat or up my rent
 
Shirley said:
That's not in it? How DISAPPOINTING

I watched the first EP and while OLIVIA COLMAN is better than I was expecting, I'm still not really FEELING HER QUEEN
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Anne was my fave new character however. She's a pleaser. I didn't know she fucked Camilla's husband!
 
I've dealreally been enjoying Season 3. Olivia Colman is superb. She's exactly how I imagine Queen Liz to be.

I also think that the episode with Princess Alice is the best episode in the whole series so far. I got teary during some parts of that episode. What a woman.
 
I’m finding this season STRANGE.

Olivia Colman seems to have mostly been sidelined in favour of re-writing history to be more sympathetic to the various hideous men in her life. The last episode I saw gave a tender send-off to ACTUAL NAZI Edward VIII, and they’ve been relatively kind to Lord Mountbatten so far too.

Princess Alice was obviously the clear highlight. Anne a close second, despite the erasure of her kidnapping so we could instead focus on Prince Charles learning Welsh and Prince Philip feeling sad that he couldn’t go to the fucking moon. :manson:
 
The moon episode was DREADFUL. So boring we had to watch it in two sittings. I liked Charles in Wales, though.

And whilst I always like Olivia Colman, I prefer Claire Foy in the role massively. Which, maybe, is something to do with the fact that she had more to actually do, as has been said.

And why is the Queen Mum suddenly just a dotty old bag? :D
 
Missing Anne’s kidnapping was a total WTF.

I assume the moon episode was for the benefit of the US audience.
 
Considering Anne was pretty much the success of this season (though I liked Charles and Harold Wilson, and enjoyed dear Princess Alice too) I agree it is a shame they didn't do the kidnap or her wedding.

Also loved the Queen Mum doing sterling background work in the funeral episode, even if it did feel like she had beamed in from a French & Saunders sketch.
 
Now being wrapped up after five seasons, so just the one run for Imelda. The line is that the decision was made by Peter Morgan after work started on writing season five.
 
Are they even going to show her order the hit on Diana?
 
I vastly preferred to first Margot to Carter's

nonetheless a gripping season. I love the politesse of it all
 
"One doesn't often have the opportunity to meet a former king. Former Kings are usually dead." :disco:

I thought this season started quite slowly and I found it hard to warm to the new cast, but the back half of the season was actually great and contained some killer episodes - Charles learning Welsh in particular was excellent, and the back 3 episodes (where it all got a bit soapy) I loved very much. The Margaret finale was wonderful, especially the final exchange where Liz says she couldn't go on without her. My poor heart. And the scene where Anne reveals to her mother and grandmother that she's a total new-age slut. :disco:

It was a bit weird that episodes 8-10 covered the years 1970-77 in such a blur, not even giving any attention to episodes such as Anne's kidnapping. We were robbed of that. But still the new cast grew on me massively - Tobias Menzes as Philip was especially brilliant.
 
They're powering through the last week of filming Series 4 this week – no shutdown for Liz!

As for the show, Series 3 was a pale impression of the first two for me. I got through it, but it was a slog. Interest in the next lot is at a fairly low ebb.
 
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