A BRITISH FRIENDS? NOT QUITE, MATE
Gritty realism is the hallmark of BBC America's This Life, about a group of young professionals living in London.
Los Angeles Times, 23/08/1999
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'THIS LIFE': 'FRIENDS' IN 'REAL WORLD'
Imagine Ally McBeal's lawyers living together like Friends. Or MTV's The Real World shot by the producers of NYPD Blue. Only with more sex, please, we're British.
Dallas Morning News, 07/1998
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EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT...
What must they think of us? When BBC2's lawyers-in-love drama 'This Life' made its debut in America last November, TV commentators went into a spin over the show's 'frankness' about matters sexual and chemical (they didn't complain about the swearing, thanks to a judicious bleeping of the more robust Anglo-Saxon vocabulary).
Guardian, 24/01/1999
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FROM BRITAIN, FRIENDS (BUT NOT 'FRIENDS')
The young lawyers of 'This Life' aren't like any of their American TV counterparts. For one thing, they had to work to stay on the air before becoming a hit.
New York Times, 17/01/1999
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U.S GETS TASTE OF U.K 'LIFE'
The bold British soap This Life ratchets up prime-time voyeurism another notch. Get a bloody life, will ya? Get the scorching, second-season start of boilingly blatant, titillatingly trendy, bad-child Brit soap This Life premiering Monday on cable channel BBC America.
Orange County Register, 18/08/1999
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