Emsworth

It looked massively irritating.  I switched off after Timothy Spall talking to the pig about 1 minute in. G

Yes it was (unfortunatly)  you should have stuck with it tho' as Emsworth (Spall) was more or less the character I read into the story.

The real eeeek irritant IMO that spoiled it for me was Jennifer Saunders, she & her fat mate are one of my many must switch off people. 

IMO Woodhouse reads far far better than depicted on TV.

Exception maybe with Jeeves & Woodhouse played by Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie, even though they were a partnership made in heaven,  I still preferred the books.    

I certainly agree that the books read better than any TV or film adaptation.

But Fry and Laurie managed to portray the two principal characters more to my liking than anyone else, including this recent offering.

Cheers

Don

I thought Fry (in the days before he was massively overexposed) was a very good Jeeves but Laurie was over-the-top as Bertie.

For me the definitive Jeeves & Wooster were Michael Denison and Ian Carmichael back in the 1950s and 60s.

I agree Mike. What was Saunders doing there?

I will stick with it for another episode - hopefully it will improve, but at the mo it looks like a real missed opportunity.

Ah yes. I'd forgotten about them. Excellent

cheers

Don

Yes they were good,  but Carmichael was just a little too genteel for my idea of that character. My early misspent yoof years included country pursuits & other activities best not mentioned in polite company with a Wooster like character from a well healed family who was an absolute useless idiot, hardly able to tie his shoe laces & drunk on a whiff of a barmaids apron. He was a fat version of the Hugh Laurie portrayal, so for me Laurie’s Wooster takes the prize.