Drama Of The Week - Best Possible Taste - The Kenny Everett Story

I watched the repeat late last night (just managed to stay awake). The acting was brilliant. I was never really a Kenny Everett fan but I watched it because I wanted to see what my kids were viewing as they were in their early teens at the time. The drama got me thinking of the docu-drama about Mary Whitehouse which was on a few years ago. I used to think MW was an interfering old busybody but I looked on her more sympathetically after watching Julie Walters playing her. The Kenny Everett drama covered the same period and looking back, I'm not surprised MW had the vapours Now we all know that (allegedly) the BBC was also turning a blind eye to Jimmy Savile's antics.
Maybe Mrs. Whitehouse had a point?

I missed bits of it and, even waking up when it was on in the early hours of the morning [I tend to fall asleep with the telly on] fell asleep again. I went off Kenny Everitt totally when he did the Tory party conference thing, but, having watched some of his old shows on 4 last night have realised just how funny he was. I must watch it on iplayer [however, I bet it'll be repeated on BBC4]. His humour reminded me very much of Spike Milligan [something that I never thought of at the time]. BBC4 are very good at doing these dramatisations about famous people; Hattie Jaques and Margot Fonteyn being the most recent ones I can remember [Harry H Corbett being another a few years back, along with Tony Hancock].

Saw the end of it and thought it was very good.

Going to watch it on Catch-up, now that I've seen all of your comments. We always used to watch the programme in the 80's. I've a bit to catch up on now really, because I fell asleep through Mrs Biggs and just couldn't last out until the Jimmy Savile thing came on much later. I think I was worn out with all the blethering at Gally's!

Oddly I didn't take all that much notice of Queen when they were around in the 1980s but I'm a big fan now. Watch their old songs/videos on tv with my GS.
The only criticism I have of the KE prog is that the bit 'in the best possible taste' where Kenny recrosses his legs showing his red drawers is too exaggerated. The real Kenny was much more tasteful than that

I watched it. I thought it was KE was very well portrayed. I think his wife came over as a very sympathetic and understanding person.

Yep, that was supposed to be Freddy I was a great Freddy Mercury fan.

What channel was it on? Didn't see it - would have done if I'd known about it!

I caught the last half having got in from somewhere. Hope to see it all on catchup tv tomorrow. Excellent. I always liked KE. Was that supposed to be Freddy Mercury with him?

The disappearing thing just happened again!