Green Wing is a atypical British hospital series, that ignores all the medical (I've been growing bored with the third House MD season anyway) stuff and just focuses on the very weird and quirky medical staff. Think Arrested Development-crazy. Also atypical is the episode length (three quarters) and the composition of the episodes, which consist of short dialogue settings, interspersed with sped up/slowed down edit of the cast members going about their business. This is apparently (Lazzi is a stage technique to fill up the time lost when changing backdrops and props when moving from one scene to the next. The fact that it is sped up and slowed down here gives it an extra comical effect, while at the same time giving a slightly unnerving, unsettling feel that can make the episodes kind of hard to watch.
In other British comedy news, BBC2 is rerunning "I'm Alan Partridge"-series Sunday nights around midnight.
This series is set around a failed tv and radio-host that tries to get his career back on track. The main character (played by Steve Coogan) looks like the perfect cross between Mark Uytterhoeven en Martin Heylen.
Both recommended.
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