Mr Selfridge... exciting!!

[TheGreatGatsby]

Am getting really excited about this, I LOVE Jeremy Piven!!

I loved Jeremy Piven in Entourage. No beard then!

I like him as Mr Selfridge. It's the white tie and that astrakan collar. I can probably overlook the beard.

Oh yes I enjoyed it too; sooo annoying it was on at the same time as a quite good biopic about Marilyn Monroe so I was turning over in the ad breaks!

I'm pleased it's a series it looks very promising (yes her off corrie is a very good actress) BTW the large hair was fashionable in the early 1900s or late 1800s ) whenever!

I thought it was the middx hospital site. I thought he was horrendous, like a young Richard Dreyfus with ridiculous teeth! I enjoyed it although it is utter trivia!

MrsDeVere - I don't have insider knowledge unfortunately. I am just a bit geeky about London streets and buildings!

I'm geeky about London streets too (and anything else london). Are you a member if the London topographical society? It is wonderful. Sorry to hijack

Maybe we need to request a new MN section it "location geeks". Any city, village etc?!

Yes I am a true map and building geek. I even like reading the London A-Z! And I sometimes recognise roads in dramas and soaps, even motorways! And I like old OS maps.

But not too much of a geek as I like the items inside Selfridges as well as the outside!

Ditto! And I just love the underground which often freaks people out! Do you listen to Robert elms, a great London programme?

Yep, I love his Notes and Queries about London.

Is that fucking fraud Robert Elms still employed? I hate him more than is good for me.

His 'yuk, yuk, yuk' laugh that fills me with false hope that he's choking to death, fake Cocknee accent despite the fact he's spent the last 30 years mixing with people who read and write for the Observer plus his palpable horror at the kind of people whose London parents moved out to Essex, his teenybopper obsession with edgy neighbourhoods when most people just want to make it home from the station without getting mugged, but most of all his desperate need to pretend he knows evreefing about evreefing.

I fantasise about calling in to his Up Your Back Passage section about some made up caff with a vaguely Italian name, black and white tiles, screwed down tables and a communal spoon on a string.

It would be in an edgy London village where all the cool kids go. I'd have a stopwatch going on how quickly the tosser talks over me and pretends to have been going there his entire sad life to get a froffy coffee and some fried bred off Guiseppe's granddad.

But I think it's better for my mood not to choon in any more.

Oh and playing records from his personal collection as if they were total revelations to the listening saps when we all fucking know about them and wish we didn't share our musical taste with such a thoroughgoing wanker.

Except Spandau Ballet who he creamed his panties over when they were poncing about playing secret gigs to other self-regarding tossers.

I'm going for a walk round my chi-chi, drearily non-edgy London village for a bit of a calm down now.

I enjoy his programme occasionally and have a LOT if shared experiences and musical tastes BUT I do know what you mean. Small doses

Btw, Jeremy proven made me think of Toulouse Lautrec with longer legs to get back to the real purpose of this thread!

Oh Oh who TF is Robert Elms? sounds intriguing . He sounds like Kenny Everett who used to talk down to all his (to his mind) dozy listeners about listening to classical music, I hate that (i know he's been dead for years BTW ).

Sorry, I went off on one there davros. Elms has that effect on me.

ppeat you may be lucky enough to live outside the reach of Elms's airwaves. Or unlucky enough, in his opinion.

Anyway, can't wait for next Sunday.

If only I was rich enough to send a servant to get the weekly grocery shop at Selfridges

We have some friends who are very elderly (90+) and the wife told me that she used to get groceries delivered from selfridges to east sheen. One day she, and presumably any servants, were out and they put her butter through the letterbox!

Are there not any Gregory Fitoussi fans? He kicks Jeremy Piven into a cocked hat.

limited I googled him; we 're R4 and R2 and R3 listeners so happily would've missed his "talking down to the thick listener" type of programme. Thank goodness.

To go back to Mr Selfridge I wonder if it's repeated? yes Davros there's nothing new about stores that deliver; it was regarded as posh though; one sent one's maid of all work to make the order

auldspinster I don't think I've heard of G.Fitoussi probably I'd know his face though.

He's Henri the French window dresser.

Thanks I'll look out for him on Sunday (i'm looking forward to it I must get out more ) there's not much on any more though is there?

I'm looking ForWard to it too ppeatfruit. I agree, there's bugger all else on at mo. Sat night was atrocious. (must get out more, am turning into my mother)

auldspinster Henri had more to do last night didn't he? yes he's nice; I like the way he stood up to M. Selfridge!

Katherine Kelly's campy pouting owes a lot to the late great Kenneth Williams. I keep expecting her to say: 'Ooh Matron!'