Kenny Everett biopic "The Best Possible Taste" to air on BBC Four in October
The one-off biopic of the late broadcaster and comedian Kenny Everett will air on Wednesday, October 3 at 9pm on BBC Four.
Oliver Lansley and ex-Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly play Everett and his wife Lee Middleton in the 90-minute drama.
Tim Whitnall's drama follows the "unconventional love story" of DJ Everett and his wife Lee (Kelly), who were married for 13 years between 1966 and 1979.
The story will be told using some of Everett's famous characters, including Cupid Stunt and Quentin Pose, and centres on his career and personal life.
Freddie Mercury will be played by James Floyd, while Simon Callow will portray Richard Attenborough and Jonathan Kerrigan plays John Alkin.
why would he want to be in such drivel, besides he is a movie star not a mere bbc drama queen
plus you have to marry your mother or son to get a foot into that roganisation
can they make their bbc effort look like Freddie? ofcourse they cant.
Jeremy is Freddie! link
their Kenny everett looks like a blimp
way too much of a fatty
The BBC have done a lot of these 'TV bios' recently....Hughie Green, Monty Python, Hattie Jacques, Morecambe and Wise etc to name but a few and most have been pretty rubbish to say the least. Think i'll give this one a miss, despite teh Freddie connection.
It wasn't too bad, these things tend to do an "invasion of the body snatchers" type thing with the characters that's hard to explain, all the ingredients are there, but something is missing, it was the same with the Monty Python ones humour.
As you would expect from the BBC it’s very well researched and all the characters are respectfully portrayed, The guy playing Freddie was nothing fantastic, a bit too short and skinny, but it could have been a lot worse, thankfully they didn’t just write him as a caricature of freddies stage persona, they DID do some research.
He got the point across in the short scenes he was in and had a couple of freddies nuisances, but the actor could have done a few things like putting his hand over his mouth to hide his teeth when he laughed.
Oliver Lansley was brilliant in character; the only Everett character he didn’t pull off very well was Sid snot.
OK, I watched it and like most of the other TV bios, pretty dull and not worthy of a dramatic reproduction.
Was Kenny really like that in real life? Constantly in character doing silly accents 'off stage'? I found it irritating to watch, must have been hell to live with if so!
Good use of his characters talking to him though.
Also...
Was this the first ever portrayal of Freddie in a dramatic role on the TV/cinema?
Bit of dramatic license with a 1979 Freddie and 'tache!
KevoM wrote:
Was this the first ever portrayal of Freddie in a dramatic role on the TV/cinema?
There was a very brief glimpse of Freddie in last years drama When Harvey met Bob, but given that it was just a camera shot of his back as he walked off stage I guess it was not really much of a portrayal and the actor was probably just a uncredited extra.
KevoM wrote:
Was this the first ever portrayal of Freddie in a dramatic role on the TV/cinema?
There was a very brief glimpse of Freddie in last years drama When Harvey met Bob, but given that it was just a camera shot of his back as he walked off stage I guess it was not really much of a portrayal and the actor was probably just a uncredited extra.
Disjointed & confused attempting stylised flashiness for a flashback format to a 24 year old in shorts playing an overgreown schoolboy, it was neither stylish or flashy and came over as very amatuer, even with the bugdet.
The Main performance was unbalanced, zipping from confident campinness to painfully acted shy introversion at each scene change. There was no depth, no structure and confusion producing only boredom while watching.
The trouble was there was no inspiration only a mechanical faux stylised telling, which fell flat on its silly face.
The woman was ok, the saving grace the actor playing Richard Attenborough. As for the Freddie scenes they were unreal and quite devoid of anything worth commnenting on, APART FROM THE ACCENT WHICH SOUNDED LIKE A SACHA BARON COHEN IMPERSONATION.
They attempted a Deniss Potter style but it ended up Harry Potter and no sight of a convincing Rotter.
qz08927 wrote:
Disjointed & confused attempting stylised flashiness for a flashback format to a 24 year old in shorts playing an overgreown schoolboy, it was neither stylish or flashy and came over as very amatuer, even with the bugdet.
The Main performance was unbalanced, zipping from confident campinness to painfully acted shy introversion at each scene change. There was no depth, no structure and confusion producing only boredom while watching.
The trouble was there was no inspiration only a mechanical faux stylised telling, which fell flat on its silly face.
The woman was ok, the saving grace the actor playing Richard Attenborough. As for the Freddie scenes they were unreal and quite devoid of anything worth commnenting on, APART FROM THE ACCENT WHICH SOUNDED LIKE A SACHA BARON COHEN IMPERSONATION.
They attempted a Deniss Potter style but it ended up Harry Potter and no sight of a convincing Rotter.
It is important to accept the reality that;
Although the recent bbc kenny Everett "Freddie for a day" was silly, he could actually act in some respects, although he wasnt brilliant he did have some ability. That ability as basic as it was is far superior to Sacha Baron Cohens'.
