TVM’s “drama consultant” has put himself into a drama on TVM. Or is it a comedy?
Here’s the most recent shot of Labour’s billboard boy (well, pensioner, actually) Frederick Testa. This time it isn’t from Grindr but from the promo for TVM’s upcoming teledramm/telekummiedja, Mejd in Malta.
I suppose we should be grateful he’s stuck to a wig and hasn’t decorated his naked torso with scallop-shells.
This is Mejd in Malta: I see they’ve dropped Norman Vella but retained the Gorg and Pawlu factor. So it was the news interview part of TVHemm that was the problem.
Well, the whole point of Gorg and Pawlu was that they were a counterfoil to the seriousness of the news, serving the same purpose as the court jester or the comic turn that comes on in the middle of some drama, to remind us with sad-funny pathos that we’ve got to laugh at ourselves because we are ‘as flies to wanton boys’.
When it’s wall-to-wall for an entire show, it’s just too much – and the audience appeal will be completely different. We know just who will be finding it funny, so you can forget any attempt at subtle wit. It’s back to basics, I suppose.
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One programme I won’t be watching..
Comedy?
They might as well dispense with the title altogether, such rubbish could not ever be ‘mejd’ anywhere else.
Gorg u Pawlu are anything but funny or comic or original (which Maltese character ever was ?) They’re just copying the 118 118 characters from BT
Wiehed mill programmi li zgur mhux ser nara……
Neither drama nor comedy… it’s a tragedy.
and Frederick cannot act to save his life.
I would suggest a slight modification in the name …. just leave Malta out of it, please, please, please – so as to read “made in ….” and let the audience guess the location.
Of course, there appears to be only one place on the whole planet where such a tragic ‘call-it-what-you-will’ hi-brow entertainment can and/or may ever be produced. Simply shocking. How sad.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-10-23/news/tvm-scraps-frederick-testas-mejd-in-malta-after-one-show-2968223745/