Compulsive viewing
“Bom and Bred,” which will end on Two tonight, will be replaced by a five part series that became compulsive viewing when it was screened in the United Kingdom and Australia.
“Boys from the Blackstuff’ continues the story of the gang of friends Alan Bleasdale created for his highly acclaimed one-off film. “The Black Stuff,”
televised in New Zealand two years ago. Then they worked as tarmac layers, dabbling disastrously in a bit of private enterprise on the side. Now they are all on the dole. They try moonlighting to make ends meet, are constantly in conflict with Department of Employment officials and gradually become more and more des- -
All the deadpan Liverpool wit of Alan Bleasdale’s writing is there, but allied with a new angry intensity. The plays vividly illustrate the indignities of unemployment and the tragic impact it can have on people.
The series was filmed entirely on location in Liverpool, on bleak building sites and council estates, down on the docks and inside terraced houses.
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