Is anyone else watching Ewan and Charley?

[Bluestocking]

And if so, can anyone enlighten me as to Charley's function? Is he a "professional friend" or something?

he's an actor in actual fact

first film in 1972 somewhat light yrs before his mate

although one could mention his father was the director

dp just asked why his wife is so keen to be rid of him.

pair of twits.

"Olly" Boorman was indeed most unseemly in her keenness to be shot of the steaming hunk of manliness that is Charley. Did you clock their ghastly daughters in their poncy school uniforms? What were they called - Parsley and Dermalogica?

I've had an idea - if EMcG has broken his leg, why don't Eve and Charley do the trip?

I used to fancy the pants off Ewan McGregor but have recently come to the conclusion that he is, in fact, a prat. That bloody irritating braying overbearing laugh - grrrrrrrrrrr.

he just constantly

his hair is baaaaaaad

yes i said to dp - now those girls go to a comp

Posted on other thread but wouldn't you be so pissed off at Eve deciding she wanted to come too?

I love watching this. The last series was amazing, got the dvd with all the extras and unseen bits, love it.

Charlie doing the Dakar rally was ace too.

Bluestocking - were they called Doone and Kinvara? Wow those are names to be reckoned with!
Charley Boorman is the film director John Boorman's son and appeared in loads of his films like Deliverance.

But I just sat there and thought : What a pointless exercise! Give the money this is costing to charity you great vainglorious show off rich tosspots! Honestly. Rich blokes ride to Africa with the kind of back up team you need to fly to the moon. Spoit self indulgent pointless!

But great telly, I must admit.

Braying laugh awful.

Taking the wife - I can't justify it but I think that totally sucks!

Bluestocking - were they called Doone and Kinvara? Wow those are names to be reckoned with!
Charley Boorman is the film director John Boorman's son and appeared in loads of his films like Deliverance.

But I just sat there and thought : What a pointless exercise! Give the money this is costing to charity you great vainglorious show off rich tosspots! Honestly. Rich blokes ride to Africa with the kind of back up team you need to fly to the moon. Spoit self indulgent pointless!

But great telly, I must admit.

Braying laugh awful.

Taking the wife - I can't justify it but I think that totally sucks!

sorry!

I was so pleased to see these two back on the road, and bless Charley struggling with the prospect of Mrs McG coming along for the ride! I do think you need to give them a chance - on Long Way Round they did quite a bit of work as a ?UNICEF children's embassadors, as well as picking their bike up 1000 times,dragging it along the road of bones and laughing quite a bit too. It was great and looking forward to their adventures. I am just a bit concerned it will be different because the BBC are involved this time around and I'm not sure how that will affect things. Anyway bring it on...

They eventually mentioned the charridy in about the last ten mins of the programme...

Yeah, but what does the whole shebang cost relative to what it makes? It seems dubious imo. Bit of an excuse for a massive boys adventure at everyone else's expense.
But if the gain is significantly greater than the cost - then fabulous! But are we likely to get an accurate account of that? Is it even possible to gauge it?
Top gear on two wheels!

I love watching travel programmes and loved long way round so I am sure I will be hooked. But god they are a couple of ponces aren't they? I also used to fancy the pants of Ewan too!

The playing up to the camera (Ewan) has already started to grate with me, as has the constant hugging of all & sundry, but there were a few flashes of wit that suggest it might be worth watching.

I do think that Mrs McG should've been firmly told to butt out & ride with hubby some other time - it's not her adventure & she might be a hindrance since she's not even ridden a scooter before.

The jokes and the braying and the barely concealed preciousness and the getting arrested and the wild staring eyes of Charley Boorman. He looks like he's taking some sort of adrenaline - scary eyes!! Stop it!

So irritated by the great swathe of posh production gels - so predictable. And all the fuss as if this trip were actually necessary and Important!

In its favour - I like the relative honesty - crazy Charlie clearly HATING McG's wife coming - how preposterous is that? Totally Linda McCartney on keyboards! But respect to her - she clearly has him so under her thumb that he has to get a pass to breathe!! Bravo Mrs McG! That's how you hang on to that A list piecea'ass!!!! It should make cringeworthy telly too.

And if I had children called Doone and Kinvara I would hope I would not stick their names on the telly! Can anyone really defend those names really? I'm willing to be told I'm narrow minded!

Ewan was cute once but he now uncute owing to all the tiggerish bouncing and mugging at the camera and thinking he's hilarious. Not cute no more.

I was dreadfully distracted by Ewan's Amazing Disappearing Forehead Moles - now they're there, now they're gone, oh - back again, gone again.

ooh dear! Did he have them whipped off? Or were you hallucinating!!!???!!! were there any scars?

Did he have them off at the Princess Grace Hospital?

Did the bbc license payer pay for that???!!!???

Hope not!

Couldn't see any scars so wherever he had it done they did a good job. But they must have edited the programme out of chronological sequence as they did keep appearing then disappearing. I expect now they're on their way they'll be gone and stay gone

I watched it last night and thought it was over-indulgent, boring and cliquey. I guess it will get better when they actually go somewhere more exciting than dank and greay UK A roads.

They seemed to be giving them and their friends a big huge slap on the back for doing this fabulous thing. What annoyed me is the bit where they were throwing away all the stuff they said they didn't need cos of the extra weight/room issues. Why they are carrying all that stuff in the first plcae is beyond me. It seems am awful waste of resources to buy a water-proof toilet roll carry bag and them just throw it over your shoulder whilst saying 'what a waste of space'. Well yes - it is. As is the person on the screen too mate.

Why they feel the need to show all the tedious numbers of crew and hangers-on around them is beyond me. We don't need to see the production crew. I don't care really who is making the film - we just see the finished product thanks. Not you all oafing about pointing cameras at each other.