PodBill Just what I expected

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

simon3818 What a sitcom. These days of political correctness where people in England cant fly the English flag in case it offends, this is such a relief. Made in 2000 and 2002, Al Murray is the pub landlord of a pub with no name and only 5 regular patrons. Prof - Named because he wears glasses.Lesley and Leslie who sit quietly in the corner.Terry - Who thinks hes gods gift to women where in reality last time he had a bath was when the vicar chucked him in the font. And he has a farting problem.Old Pops - Sits there reminding when the prof won £2 on the quiz machine and doesn't have a real name.Throughout the series, Guv is explaining he mad logic on the world, taking the pi** out of everything and everyone who walks in and treating his barman Steve (who has inspirations to by anything including a postman and ploughman) very badly and paying him £1.80 an hour. First series introduces to Janet - the loud mouth Aussie who's looking for work; Aussies - Bread for bar work. Its instinct!!! is the usual cry we hear and also Vicki "Ms" Jackson who's the brewery rep and never pulled a pint in her life. She has a habit of singing a popular song that no one claims to have heard of. The Second series, Janet has ran off back to Aus to avoid her ex and we have the rather gorgeous Connie and everyone apart from Terry is in love with her (and so am I). Shame she doesn't feel the same.Guv's local rival (Greg Thompson) turns up every now and then always accompanied by a young lady and makes a joke about the Guv, the pub or his manhood trying his best to pull either Janet or Connie. The other local landlords also show on occasions (one is the guv's "uncle" Barry.)Thats all I'm saying for now about it - watch it on Paramount Comedy 2 or catch Happy Hour in ITV on Fridays.The pub landlord creation by Murray is fantastic. Hes big headed, xenophobic, completely un-PC and its refreshing when PC is thrust ed upon us all the time in everything. I hope they make more of these or at least bring them all out on DVD.Its amazing when an Australian comments on this, its always negative. Hey its meant to be funny, if you don't like it we don't particularly like being called poms - even in our own country. 12-10 12-10 lets hear it for the beer, All hail to the ale and welcome the wine, for the ladies.

ste_201079 I watched all of season 1 and 2 within a couple of days, once into the first episode I couldn't stop watching. It is such a clever written comedy, hilarious, great one liners and gags & superb how each cast member seem to have their own quotes which works well every episode, even Terry's constant farting doesn't effect the morale of the comedy. The talented Julia Sawalha, who puts on a brilliant Australian accent left at end of season one which I thought would effect the shows continuity leading into season two but in comes the absolutely gorgeous Emma Pierson as Connie, another amazing talent who helps keep the show alive.Overall this is a highly recommended comedy, definitely 10/10 and definitely in need of much more episodes, British television needs more humour of this quality.

chornaey A superficially simple but sometimes layered and always entertaining sit com. Based on Al Murray's stand up character of The Pub Landlord he created while comparing at Harry Hill's Pub Internationale show at Edinburgh. He took this Perrier Award winning formula and turned it into a series allowing him to extend the act from the one man show to include a full roster of your typical pub occupants: The career boozer, the loser barman, the staple barmaids - Aussie in the first series, student in the second, the Prof (he's wearing glasses!!!), the HUGE bloke/small bird combo, he old man with no name, the brewery rep (never pulled a pint in her life!!!), the rival landlord (he makes his money on the food!) and a few other semi regulars. A very catchphrase heavy show, but it all adds to the familiarity once you've seen a few episodes. Emulating pub chat everywhere it seemed no topic was safe from the Guv's and the other patrons roving eye. Common targets were the French, women, royalty, celebs and politicians. There some points where the stand up origins are very clear, a lot of the act does transfer well but there can be long monologues from the Guv, albeit funny ones.

Robert Barrett I have to say the best thing about Time Gentlemen Please is Julia Sawalha as Aussie barmaid Janet Wilson and the reason why is that i was a big fan of Julia as an actress ever since she played Lynda Day in Press Gang and enjoyed all her other roles throughout her career so far but i have never ever seen such a performance played so fantastic and funny on any actress in all my life.Julia Sawalha should have won an Oscar for playing Janet and i like the way she brought the famous Aussie humour that Australians have and i'm so glad that they gave Julia as her character(Janet)the opportunity to swear and be as foul mouthed as she liked and that was rare for television.Also there was only five actresses that i know of who could play realistic characters and be really really nice as themselves and that was Julia Sawalha,Danielle McCormack Who plays Mel Barker in My Parents Are Aliens,Australian actresses Taya Straton and Rebecca Dines and it wasn't fair in what happened to Taya Straton as she was the best actress Australia ever had and Sheridan Smith from Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.I always always look forward to watching Julia Sawalha as Janet on Time Gentlemen Please every time they repeat it on the cable/satellite channels and for anybody who hated Julia's performance which i had to read about before i made a comment i couldn't care less what they said because i have seen Julia Sawalha in a lot of roles as an actress over the years and i think not only was she one of the most beautiful ladies i have ever seen in my life but she is an absolutely fantastic actress as far as i was concerned and Julia's performance on the show made Christmas on television again worth watching instead of watching reality rubbish like the X Factor,Pop Idol and various foreign rubbish that is no good whatsoever apart from English,Australian and sometimes Canadian stuff and even tonight's episode(Tuesday 5th January 2005)i wish that Time Gentlemen Please had made more episodes with Julia Sawalha because she was the best actress to play an Aussie considering she was from London,England and it was my favourite role Julia ever played and if Prisoner Cell Block H had still been made now i would have liked to have seen Julia on the show because she started reminding me of not only of how utterly brilliant most of the actresses from Prisoner was but Julia had put in her performance an Aussie sense of humour that was absolutely spot on to her character and turned in a 100 per cent performance every time and was really really funny and so was Al Murray as the landlord that bloke was priceless.I would like to request sky one in England to ask Julia,Al and the rest of the cast to make at least another series because at least it was better than Friends and Julia Sawalha was a better actress than the usual Hollywood star.A truly great performance from a truly fantastic actress.