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UNNY ALREADY: A HISTORY OF JEWISH COMEDY Channel 4, Sun 12 Sep. 8pm 0000
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Five, Mon 13 Sep, 2.35pm 000
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EARLY ooons BBC2. Mon 13 Sep. 10pm 000
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DEADWOOD' Sky One. Tue 21 Sep. 10pm .000
The latest television opus from HBO takes us back to the Black Hills of South Dakota and the lawless town of Deadwood. But those expecting chipper ditties, whips crackin' away, secret loves and warm, fuzzy feelings are advised to remain on Walton Mountain. A leisurely pilot introduces the vast cast of rogues, speculators, lawmen and whores. Two weeks after Custer‘s defeat at Little Big Horn, outlaws and prospectors pour into the illegal settlement housed conveniently on Indian territory.
As befits a town averaging one murder a day, the opener features a good fistful of randomly violent acts (including a first-reel hanging) and winds up with a ride out into the wilds to pick over the bones of a massacre. There's plenty of lavish casting to savour with Keith Carradine providing an insouciant turn sporting handlebar moustache and Michael Bolton’s stringy hair as the legendary Wild Bill Hickok, riding into town alongside a potty- mouthed Calamity Jane. Ian McShane appears as gleefully immoral Gem Theatre proprietor AI Swearengen and mercifully resists delivering a straight-to-camera monologue. Brad Dourif is a drunken doctor and Molly Parker plays the delicate wife of a speculator, who eases the brutality of
her surroundings with a wee tot of laudanum.
As might be expected of an HBO production, Deadwood is stylishly put together, smartly scripted with lots of flinty, profane dialogue and refreshingly unsentimental about frontier life. If you can find a gap in your schedule between The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, you might want to give this upmarket historical soap opera a go. (Allan Radcliffe)
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