{"id":12391,"date":"2013-03-20T17:19:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T22:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=12391"},"modified":"2017-08-02T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:26:40","slug":"yes-minister-british-television-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/yes-minister-british-television-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Minister &#8211; British Television Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00008DP4B\/ref=as_li_ss_il?&amp;imprToken=jw9zNAXxHAK2GIkd3LpCqw&amp;slotNum=0&amp;&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=httpwwwmarkes-20&amp;linkId=5a4b0509d812feeaa4d1852bc00353d5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00008DP4B&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=httpwwwmarkes-20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=httpwwwmarkes-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00008DP4B\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>If you enjoy British comedies, want a comedy television show with intelligence , \u00a0not just one-liners or smart aleck children, want to see top-of-the-line actors at their best, then <em>Yes,\u00a0Minister<\/em>\u00a0is for you!<\/p>\n<p>Paul Eddington portrays Jim Hacker, a new cabinet\u00a0minister\u00a0&#8211; who lacks&#8230; should I say&#8230;\u00a0intelligence\u00a0 Somehow Hacker occupies a cabinet office, and he seems&#8230; quite befuddled.\u00a0Eddington\u00a0is fantastic in this role. He is very credible as the cabinet minister who really doesn&#8217;t seem to know what is going on, or what is expected of him.<\/p>\n<p>As wonderful as many of the actors are in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00008DP4B\/?&amp;tag=httpwwwmarkes-20\"><strong><em>Yes, Minister<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, the true stand-out performance (for me) is by Nigel Hawthorne &#8211; as Sir Humphrey Appleby. Hawthorne plays the aide of the minister, who happens to be more\u00a0savvy, \u00a0smarter, and informed than the minister. He is also a\u00a0schemer\u00a0and a\u00a0conniver\u00a0 and no one can do &#8220;it&#8221; like Hawthorne! Hawthorne brings a level of aristocracy that is perhaps even more upper-crust than the queen herself!<\/p>\n<p>My husband and I watched this BBC series alone, and then again with our adult children. Obviously, we enjoyed it or we wouldn&#8217;t have watched it twice! (And, we plan to watch it again.) Both our son and daughter have shared the <em>Yes, Minister<\/em> shows with their friends. Well, at least those of them who enjoy intelligent comedy shows!<\/p>\n<p>While this is not a mystery\u00a0series, it is terrific British fun! I\u00a0strongly\u00a0recommend <em>Yes, Minister<\/em>. I also recommend its sequel: <a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/yes-prime-minister-british-television-show.html\"><em>Yes, Prime Minister<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to see more\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/tv-movies-dvds\/Cozy-Mystery-TV-and-Movies.html\">TV and Movies<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0suggestions, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoy British comedies, want a comedy television show with intelligence , \u00a0not just one-liners or smart aleck children, want to see top-of-the-line actors at their best, then Yes,\u00a0Minister\u00a0is for you! Paul Eddington portrays Jim Hacker, a new cabinet\u00a0minister\u00a0&#8211; who lacks&#8230; should I say&#8230;\u00a0intelligence\u00a0 Somehow Hacker occupies a cabinet office, and he seems&#8230; quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bbc","7":"category-british-moviestv-shows","8":"category-moviestv-shows","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-3dR","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12391"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33841,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions\/33841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}