Teenagers take to the streets and Britain erupts in moral panic – why does Franc Roddam's 1979 cult classic feel so familiar?
Director: Franc Roddam
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Between 1964 and 1966, teenagers rioted in British seaside towns. Violence flared between mods and rockers, two youth movements that were connected in the press with drug-taking, vandalism and delinquency.
Youth culture
Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a fictional mod, hangs out in a London dive. Everyone looks about 12; pass round a few splurge guns and you'd be in Bugsy Malone. But this lot are less the adorable moppet sort of gangster and more the sort that takes pills, nicks stuff and smashes other people's faces in. Among the newspaper clippings and pornography on Jimmy's bedroom wall is an article about the 'Battle of Hastings' – not the 1066 one with the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, but the 1964 one with the mods and the rockers. The...
Director: Franc Roddam
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Between 1964 and 1966, teenagers rioted in British seaside towns. Violence flared between mods and rockers, two youth movements that were connected in the press with drug-taking, vandalism and delinquency.
Youth culture
Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a fictional mod, hangs out in a London dive. Everyone looks about 12; pass round a few splurge guns and you'd be in Bugsy Malone. But this lot are less the adorable moppet sort of gangster and more the sort that takes pills, nicks stuff and smashes other people's faces in. Among the newspaper clippings and pornography on Jimmy's bedroom wall is an article about the 'Battle of Hastings' – not the 1066 one with the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, but the 1964 one with the mods and the rockers. The...
- 8/18/2011
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
First, Fox cancelled Lone Star and then, ABC cancelled My Generation. Not wanting to be left out, NBC has now cancelled Outlaw. The Jimmy Smits series has ceased production but viewers will still be able to see the remaining episodes.
Outlaw follows a Supreme Court Justice (Smits) who decides to step down and go back to being a lawyer in order to fight injustices. The NBC series also stars Carly Pope, David Ramsey, Jesse Bradford, and Ellen Woglom.
The series debuted following the season finale of one of NBC's biggest shows, America's Got Talent, and could only attract moderate ratings. In its regular Friday night timeslot, Outlaw's ratings have gone from bad to worse. This past Friday, the show hit a new low in the 18-49 demographic with a 0.9 rating and fell to just 4.10 million viewers. It was in last place in...
Outlaw follows a Supreme Court Justice (Smits) who decides to step down and go back to being a lawyer in order to fight injustices. The NBC series also stars Carly Pope, David Ramsey, Jesse Bradford, and Ellen Woglom.
The series debuted following the season finale of one of NBC's biggest shows, America's Got Talent, and could only attract moderate ratings. In its regular Friday night timeslot, Outlaw's ratings have gone from bad to worse. This past Friday, the show hit a new low in the 18-49 demographic with a 0.9 rating and fell to just 4.10 million viewers. It was in last place in...
- 10/12/2010
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Photo by Mitchell Haaseth/NBC
Just two weeks into the new fall TV season there have already been some casualties. Fox's Lone Star and ABC's My Generation were the first to get the axe.
Some TV travesties cannot be overlooked—the Gilmore Girls never got a proper good-bye episode, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip getting axed after one season, and now, the fact that the new Jimmy Smits series Outlaw might be in trouble.
Yesterday news broke that the new NBC show has been put on production hiatus after just three episodes. While that technically is not yet a cancellation, it sends a strong message that the network doesn't have a lot of faith in the show. In fact, maybe NBC never believed in the show. After all they put it in the Friday Night Death Slot right from the get go.
We've been longtime Smits fans and are...
Just two weeks into the new fall TV season there have already been some casualties. Fox's Lone Star and ABC's My Generation were the first to get the axe.
Some TV travesties cannot be overlooked—the Gilmore Girls never got a proper good-bye episode, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip getting axed after one season, and now, the fact that the new Jimmy Smits series Outlaw might be in trouble.
Yesterday news broke that the new NBC show has been put on production hiatus after just three episodes. While that technically is not yet a cancellation, it sends a strong message that the network doesn't have a lot of faith in the show. In fact, maybe NBC never believed in the show. After all they put it in the Friday Night Death Slot right from the get go.
We've been longtime Smits fans and are...
- 10/8/2010
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
Note: This is the first in a series of posts by Chris Roberts who will be analysing the current ratings for the new TV Season. We hope you enjoy these articles. Please give Chris a warm welcome (DarkUFO)
SpoilerTV - Ratings Analysis - Friday September 24 to Thursday September 30 by Chris Roberts
This begins first address on ratings.This will cover Friday September 24 to Thursday September 30.This Is not to debate quality of shows.Nor Is it to debate the fairness of the Nielson system.
Friday(For disclosure the only show I watch here is Smallville)
ABC
Reruns of Modern Family and Better with You did decently In overall ratings(4.2 and 3.1) but among the 18-49 year old audience both were beaten by Smallville(Modern Family with 1.2 and Better with You with 0.9 Vs Smallville's 1.3) Rerun of the Whole Truth did even worse with 2.9 In total viewers and 0.7 among 19-49 audence.20/20 was ABC's...
SpoilerTV - Ratings Analysis - Friday September 24 to Thursday September 30 by Chris Roberts
This begins first address on ratings.This will cover Friday September 24 to Thursday September 30.This Is not to debate quality of shows.Nor Is it to debate the fairness of the Nielson system.
Friday(For disclosure the only show I watch here is Smallville)
ABC
Reruns of Modern Family and Better with You did decently In overall ratings(4.2 and 3.1) but among the 18-49 year old audience both were beaten by Smallville(Modern Family with 1.2 and Better with You with 0.9 Vs Smallville's 1.3) Rerun of the Whole Truth did even worse with 2.9 In total viewers and 0.7 among 19-49 audence.20/20 was ABC's...
- 10/1/2010
- by DarkUFO
- SpoilerTV
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