Last Tango in Halifax, new series.

It certainly is - and that’s just the tip of the iceberg!

Thank you, Juliet! That was very helpful. It's certainly a complicated situation, isn't it?

NotTooOld. This will give you an idea of some of the characters.

www.comedy.co.uk/tv/last_tango_in_halifax/characters/

How long have you got?!!

I've not watched this before but am enjoying the new series. Lovely scenery. Can someone give me the headsup on who is who and a bit of background, please?

I was rather disappointed with the first show. Twaddle about nothing. I hope it improves. Maybe it's gone on too long.

Anne Reid is a very versatile actress. Anyone remember seeing her in ‘The Mother’ I think the film was called, she had a fling with Daniel Craig of all people! She had to strip off and she must have been well in her 60’s, possibly 70’s.
I didn’t like the film, it was a bit of a weird one if I remember rightly, and Daniel’s character was not very nice.
Definitely remember her as Val Barlow, huge shock when she was electrocuted!

Recovering from a bug I thought I would watch the very first episode to remind myself of Celia and Alan's first meeting ,and the earlier characters.Now I'm hooked and watching more. Sally Wainwrights dialogue is so spot on and hilarious sometimes.And it's filmed on our doorstep so enjoying place spotting.

I have just turned off "Last Tango......" because I had forgotten how depressing the final series had become the last time it was on. Celia is such a stuck up bitch and Alan's daughter so needy I realised I really wasn't enjoying it and so off it went.
What a shame I had been looking forward to it coming back!

Can someone remind me where Celia’s money comes from.
Was she well off before she met Allan?
She was living in a granny annexe with her D when it started.
That huge bungalow looks very expensive.

Yes Woody Allen still makes me shudder Iam64 strange how some people have more of an effect on you than others.

I love the bitchy female characters, Anne Reid, Maureen Lipman in Corrie, Blanche in Corrie whose name escapes me. Not forgetting Patricia Routledge.

Last Tango is brilliant television. The cast is talented, not a single weak link. Sally Wainwright is one of the best writers tv has.
I'd been feeling amazed by the negative comments about Ann Reid's personality rather than discussing Celia. Then I remembered, I don't watch Woody Allen films because I can't separate the art from the actor.

In Who Do You Think You Are, I think Anne Reid was the one whose ancestor had defrauded someone (a relative?) and been transported. She was really annoyed at the victim for having prosecuted, but he had been ruined by the fraud, which wasn't a first offence. I thought her attitude was awful.

I can understand being sympathetic to someone who was transported, obviously; but she had no thought at all for the victim of the crime.

I remember a live interview she did some years ago on woman's hour. I remember being quiet shocked at some of her answers, and so was the interviewer.
Ann's response to the surprise was literally "I couldn't care less what people think"

Lovely to have it back and see how the characters have grown.

She was very attractive when younger ( great hair!)
All the acting is good in Last Tango, and if characters annoy you, shows they are doing a good job.
Gillian has always annoyed me...that permanently lugubrious face and hard done by demeanour.

Oh, that’s all a bit disappointing! I had no idea. Didn’t know she was in Coronation St either. Clay feet, eh?

Well, well merlotgran that warm smile of Anne Reid’s certainly had me fooled! Oh that’s a shame. My illusions are shattered!

Great actress though isn’t she? Plays a perfect part.

Allan (David Jacobi - 1975 I remember him in ‘I, Claudius’ we had just got married) is completely bossed about by her.

Like merlot I too "went off her" when she was thoroughly dismissive of the fact she'd been voted GN's Woman of the Year or whatever the title was!
Celia is a vile character and I did wonder how the financial situation would be viewed on GN if either Celia or Gillian posted here!!

Ann Reid came across as quite unpleasant in Who Do You Think You Are? I went off her then.

Celia's turned into such a nag, it's been a while, can't remember if she was always like that, I've got her character blurred with the one Anne Reid played in Years and Years far more sympathetic. The problem is with a long interlude you can't always remember the finer detail from the last series, although they did give us a visual precis of sorts at the outset. Anyway drifted off, so I will catch up with 2nd half on IPlayer.

Yorkshire scenery beautiful as always.

annsixty ''Oh dear, what a disappointment.
Too much going on which was totally unnecessary.
Celia is a very unpleasant woman and I would give her the heaveho if I were Allan.''

you said it for me, thanks.

In her twenties (oh how young that sounds now!). She was Valerie Barlow, Ken's first wife - wasn't she electrocuted by her own hairdrier?

She's a tremendous actor, but she didn't come over as warm and lovely when she was on Who Do You Think You Are? She doesn't mince her words when she's interviewed either, which I like. She was on the radio this weekend and was a bit dismissive when someone suggested she should be a dame by now (I agree!). She quoted Alan Bennett saying that if you get to 70 and can still eat a boiled egg, everybody thinks you're marvellous. I love that!

I have also heard Anne Reid is quite difficult in real life.
I enjoyed her in dinner ladies, can hardly remember her in Coronation street, was she very young?

I enjoyed it and liked the new generation coming through; Gillian's son and his partner seem a good couple. Talking of Anne Reid, I had always liked her, but then heard a bit of an interview on Radio 4 last week, possibly Woman's Hour; she was rather sniffy and dismissive of her early years in Coronation Street, and made rather disparaging remarks about those who had stayed. I was rather disappointed. Celia is a monster, a snob and very well portrayed. My best friend at school had a Mother just like her!