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In the last 48 hours, I have had the pleasure of watching\u00a0Eric & Ernie<\/a> and The Road To Coronation Street<\/a>, a pair of biographical dramas about two of the most successful UK TV shows of all time. Laced with Northern working class humour that had me laughing out loud.\u00a0Without a doubt, these are two of the best dramas I have seen – and that’s from someone who loved The Morecombe & Wise Show<\/em> but never watched an episode of\u00a0Coronation Street<\/em> in his life!<\/p>\n Both were well written, superbly produced and played by exceptional casts; a rare combination these days, it seems. \u00a0Daniel Rigby and Bryan Dick delivered stand out performances as the eponymous\u00a0Eric and Ernie<\/em>, with Victoria Wood and Jim Moir providing the backstory of Eric’s Mum and Dad. \u00a0While The Road To Coronation Street<\/em> had a stellar cast of familiar talent from the last 30 years of British TV, it was Jessie Wallace, a former soap actress playing a soap actress from the preceding generation, who\u00a0convincingly\u00a0stole the show as Pat Phoenix.<\/p>\n There is very little that makes me homesick but the quality of these dramas does make me wonder what else I might be missing on the television in Blighty.<\/p>\n In the last 48 hours, I have had the pleasure of watching\u00a0Eric & Ernie and The Road To Coronation Street, a pair of biographical dramas about two of the most successful UK TV shows of all time. Laced with Northern working class humour that had me laughing out loud.\u00a0Without a doubt, these are two of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[467,466,470,462,471,468,465,463,469,464],"class_list":["post-216893311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-bryan-dick","tag-daniel-rigby","tag-drama","tag-eric-and-ernie","tag-humour-2","tag-jessie-wallace","tag-jim-moir","tag-the-road-to-coronation-street","tag-tv","tag-victoria-wood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216893311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893319,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893311\/revisions\/216893319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216893311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216893311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216893311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/trtcs.jpg\" "\\"The")
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