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Post by SweatShop on Jan 18, 2006 15:38:38 GMT
The trashy tatty scottish soap. Complete with rubbish acting, fairly dismal storylines and amusing in general when it comes to the over the top accents and the actors pretending to be serious.
If you were ever to bother watching this look out for a few characters:
Roisin: Best accent ever. "No, i'll deal wi'it Raymint!"
Scarlett: The human equivelant of a yappy small dog.
Ruth: Fucking off her head. And married to "Salvatore Biagi off Footballers' Wives"
Andrew: Fairly gorgeous. But I think he's leaving it soon. Bastard.
You can also look out for Gina (ie: the one who was raped by "Paul Robinson off Neighbours" a few years ago)
If you can be arsed, give it a go. I myself can't believe I still watch it.
Anyone been unfortunate enough to watch/be hooked in?
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Post by Adrian on Jan 18, 2006 15:44:53 GMT
The trashy tatty scottish soap. Like neeps and tatties? It would be amazing if it was a soap based around the lives of numerous potato men and women. I never watched this when I lived in Scotland but if it was potato men and women, I would have. A |
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Post by Geo on Jan 18, 2006 15:46:03 GMT
I shall raise my hands to watchin it..All thanks to the extraordinary Roisin..The voice, the look, the bad acting and like the rubbish gay i am, i was drawn to it like a moth to the light.
Dont forget Lola...The twin sister of Rustie Lee.
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Post by SweatShop on Jan 18, 2006 15:52:57 GMT
The trashy tatty scottish soap. Like neeps and tatties? I was meaning "tatty" as in falling apart and grubby though i'm sure a cast of potatoes would probably act better than most of the actors in River City. |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jan 18, 2006 16:25:17 GMT
When and where is it on?
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Jan 18, 2006 16:46:22 GMT
It may just be on BBC Scotland. I've seen it a few times, but just want to DIE when I hear the accents.
Is Lorraine from Deacon Blue still in it?
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Post by SweatShop on Jan 18, 2006 18:01:01 GMT
Is Lorraine from Deacon Blue still in it? Nah, she went to prison for trying to frame her ex-boyfriend By downloading child porn onto his laptop. |
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jan 18, 2006 18:42:07 GMT
Is Lorraine from Deacon Blue still in it? Nah, she went to prison for trying to frame her ex-boyfriend By downloading child porn onto his laptop. Ha! Fantastic! Although it smacks of producers trying to find both something new and ratings-grabbing. |
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Post by monsta on Jan 18, 2006 21:11:38 GMT
I still get excited at spotting someone from River City. Even though Glasgow is swarming with them.
Love that insane sisters Joanne and Ruth take turns at being crazed. Highlights include Ruth stalking herself, Joanne claiming she murdered Stefan Dennis and then wanting to shag her brother from the Eric Prydz video.
I totally heart Kelly-Marie, the world's greatest footballers wife.And Zoe who used to be shacked up with the not-paedo Mac.
Deke must be shot. And what exactly is Salvatore Biagi's accent? It goes from American to Cockney to Brummie to Italian. Priceless.
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Post by Bridgey on Jan 18, 2006 21:16:47 GMT
Did anyone remember Vader when he was on Fame Academy?
(Oh dear.)
Me neither.
Bridgey xxx
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Feb 17, 2006 15:10:00 GMT
"new-girls on the block and stars of BBC Scotland's River City, City Chix" are in this year's Making your Mind Up, along with Anthony Costa, Kym Marsh, and some other no hopers.
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Post by I Hate Lana Lang on Mar 9, 2006 14:35:51 GMT
Oh it's f**king awful!
I'm Scottish and even I don't know what they're all meant to be saying:
"Get ooot yer scratcher and tell me if yer goin te cooort te seee yer freeends?"
And to think Des Dillon (respected Scottish poet) helps write this shit is just not real for me. Actually, we call it River Shitty up here.
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Post by SweatShop on Mar 9, 2006 16:50:15 GMT
Actually, we call it River Shitty up here. I always ask my mum if we're going to watch "shitty." We don't even bother with the river. |
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Post by stabpokestab on Mar 11, 2006 17:55:56 GMT
I have some friends who are hopelessly in love with this show, because its so awful. I hear it actually doesn't do too badly... some 600,000 viewers or something I heard, which in Scotland (population 5.5 million or so) is actually a fairly high proportion.
But I wonder if that's just because its on the telly more than anything.
Oh, and Roisin's accent is the worst thing *ever*.
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Post by I Hate Lana Lang on Mar 14, 2006 16:19:11 GMT
Oh, and Roisin's accent is the worst thing *ever*. OH MY GOD YES! It's so uncomprehensible. |
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Post by raspberry on Mar 17, 2006 12:45:16 GMT
From Digital Spy - Breakfast TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has signed up to appear in an episode of the BBC One Scotland drama, River City.
Scripts are still being finalised but at this early stage, it is known that she is to play herself whom, in the soap, is a friend of 'Moda Vida' hair salon manager Billy Davis (Gray O'Brien).
Of her guest appearance, Lorraine said: "I am beyond excitement at appearing in River City! I love the show and always watch it at home in Scotland and when I am working in London.
"It is so well written and acted and has fantastic dramatic storylines as well as a deft way with comedy.
"I am playing myself so it shouldn't be too much of an acting challenge and I know the cast and crew will help me."
Executive Producer Sandra MacIver added: "We are thrilled to have Lorraine on board and look forward to seeing her in April for filming." |
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Post by jem on Mar 17, 2006 13:01:57 GMT
I'm quite pleased it's only on bbc Scotland, it means the rest of the country can't tar us with River Shitty's brush.
For those non Scots who watch, we don't actually talk like that, their accents are a bizarre phenomenon know as stage school/ actor Scots which has no relevance to the rest of us.
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Post by raspberry on Sept 26, 2007 6:58:42 GMT
OK, so Archie was a shit and from I can understand he was going to kill his wife before faking his suicide and jetting off with his jail bird lover. Except his mum stopped him by whacking him over the head with something or other. They think he's dead, Gina (the wife) decides to spare Liz (the mother) jail, they will dispose of the body. Along with Gina's sister they drive out to the coast and throw the body off a cliff leaving Archie's car with the intended to be fake sucide note on the dashboard.
Worth seeing purely for the cagoules the women were wearing alone.
After I had just about finnished laughing about the implausability of it all the final shot showed Archie's body washed up on the beach. Turns out he's still alive!
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Post by laine on Sept 26, 2007 21:20:48 GMT
I loved how they threw the body off the cliff in broad day light.
Jamie the rubbish teenager is just the worst actor in any soap ever.
xx
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Post by jamiek on Sept 26, 2007 23:23:20 GMT
Shut your pieholes you bunch of cynical old 'mos - Riv City is top notch: just because something is Scottish doesn't always mean it's crap!
I will not hear a word against it - any soap where you can see half the cast in the Polo Lounge on a Saturday night is fine by me.
On a related note, my friend Kim - who thinks River City is the biggest waste of space ever- was in Boots just perusing the cosmetics and this 'weirdo alien looking guy' as she described him just stared at her and said
'River City'
She just said
'What?'
'It's just you must be trying to work out where you know me from and it's River City'
'No, I'm actually staring at you because you have food on your face'
'Oh'
Th thing is, it was great to hear about Deek getting layed into in the deoderant isle but Kim is so unpredictable: she was horrible to Darius once but pushed a guy over to try and talk to Kelly Brook on Buchanan Street. The Brook was abso fucking lutely plastered in makeup btw.
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Post by raspberry on Sept 27, 2007 6:23:38 GMT
I met Deek in the Polo Lounge once. He was so small, I felt I had wondered into the set of a remake of Mac and Me.
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Post by boxedjoy on Sept 27, 2007 9:11:46 GMT
My favourite River City story is the one about the actor who's a bit older - the policeman, perhaps?- who met an 18 year old on Gaydar, beat him up through the course of their relationship and gave him crabs.
They should work that into an episode.
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Post by QuincyMD on Jan 7, 2008 11:04:59 GMT
Former Holby City and Tinsel Town "star" David Paisley is now in River City as the son of Jacquie Leonard, who now has hair worse than when she was in Eastenders, and it's fair to say that age/career has not been kind to him.
....and the guy acting coked up on the New Year Episode was the worst piece of acting I've ever seen.
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Post by Feral on Jan 7, 2008 23:04:04 GMT
I used to really fancy David Paisley back when he was in Tinsel Town. I guess I should probably try my best not to ruin the memories of my adolescent fantasies by actually seeing what he looks like now. Age is cruel to teenage crushes sometimes.
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Post by raspberry on Jan 8, 2008 19:44:34 GMT
I've got 2nd hand David Paisley stories that would truely trash any romantic fantasy you had of him. Although my sources may be prone to dramatic, I doubt what they told me was untrue.
I'm not going to pass them on just incase though.
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