Madness of Modern Families had MNHQ Carrie on it!!

[princessmel]

Or maybe it was Justine?

I love that programme. Its very funny. Its like Mn on tv.

I do like your post of 22.16 Aitch

i'm associated in as much as i wrote the book that accompanies the series. i wonder, have you read it? i'm perfectly happy to be known as the author of the book, as i happen to think it's quite good. i had no involvement with the production of the series. i think there is, actually, a serious debate to be had over the anxiety that modern parents experience on a daily basis. maybe the series only hints at it, in a humorous way - fine if you don't find it funny ... it's a very subjective thing. the book takes the debate further. but one thing that doesn't help is aggressive criticism of other parents, just because you don't relate to what they're doing.

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well, the reason i get worked up is that i'm paying a lot of money for a British Broadcasting Corporation, not the Wealthy Bubble-headed Londoners' Circle Jerk Organisation.

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But aggressive criticism of other parents is what we do so well! You mean we have to stop??

Oh blimey Tinker, I was about to post almost exactly that, about agressive criticism being what we do. Spooky

no - of course not! it's such fun. just stop doing it to me, please!

tamum

hatjam, of course i haven't read your book, i loathed the series. although i remember from a previous thread that it apparently contains chunks of transcript taken verbatim from the show.

the programme in no sense whatsoever engaged in a discussion about what it is to raise a child today. instead it gathered together a bunch of self-indulgent arseholes (sorry carrie) and coached them to tell the sort of stories that would make people from the provinces fulminate in exactly the manner i'm doing. either you are being utterly disingenuous or the producers didn't mention that to you when you got the gig.

so given that there was no debate, i can say whatever i like with no compunction to be 'helpful'.

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whadya mean - 'of course' you haven't read the book. bloody hell! thanks a bunch

lol at sun dried tomatoes

A friend of mine was on Grumpy Old Men, and he was told exactly what to be grumpy about. He gave up after the first series because they wanted him to be grumpy about not being able to get paracetamol in huge numbers. Of course it's a put-up.

Hatjam. you have to admit, putting obviously well off and successful meedja types on screen talkig about the sheer hell of their cosy, affluent, secure and leisured families is likely to get up the backs of most people who aren't like that? Most parents are more concerned about how on earth they are going to be able to afford a week in a tent in Aberystwyth than whether little Oscar is going to have a paddy if someone comes to his pirate party dressed as Captain Hook.

sorry hatjam, i had to watch the series for work.... no way i'm going to read a book as well. if i have my way they'll all be first against the wall when the revolution comes. (again, apols to carrie. let's hope she is a tax exile...)

It was VERY London and Home Counties. There was an awful lot of it which was just..... wanky.

I remember asking on the other thread about it if the bloke who looked like Jeremy Hardy was, in fact, Jeremy Hardy. I think we established he probably wasn't.

Carrie obviously had to do it for professional reasons and probably mentioned Mumsnet at every available opportunity, which was then edited out. (Am I right?)

But otherwise, yeah... what Aitch said.

Jeremy Hardy's daughter would be in her mid teens by now, I would have thought, or did he have more children later? I remember seeing him being very funny about adopting his daughter from Romania and the attitudes of the social workers.

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actually the best-selling sunday broadsheet... in my parish.

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cod, i think hatjam said it best when she said...

hem hem.