Talk:The Catherine Tate Show

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I have removed those derogatory comments as the talk page is for discussing the article, not the subject matter itself. — Gary Kirk // ^talk! 09:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Would it make sense to merge this page with Catherine's own page? Jess Cully 23:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Personally I think the two pages should stay separate. Catherine is also forwarding her acting career with a sitcom and films on the way. There have also been rumours that she doesn't want to carry on with the show and wants to concentrate on acting full-time. As she becomes known for other things it may get too messy IMO.

That's a no then. — Gary Kirk // ^talk! 09:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Sheila 2 Controversy 3 Life at Ma's 4 Page size 4.1 Page Size 5 Catchphrases section 6 Episodes

[edit] Sheila

Where/when was it confirmed that the Have A Guess woman is called Sheila?

Says who? In the scripts book the woman who demands the guess (Tate) is called Kate and the guesser is called Ellen. I think the woman who complains about everybody and then loudly farts is called Sheila though... — Gary Kirk // ^talk! 09:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, she is. Says in the scripts book, and (I just noticed) in the article. — Gary Kirk // talk! 16:40, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy

I also removed the Contoroversy section as it was not sourced (Visitor was even spelt wrong) and it was just a local newspaper's opinion. — Gary Kirk // ^talk! 09:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Life at Ma's

I've only seen this once, but I assumed it was supposed to be set in the 50s, not WWII.

Mmmmmmmm. The TV guide said that it was supposed to be WWII, so that's what I put, but then again there is no mention of bombs, air raid shelters etc. on the show and also the mention of the black family moving in was all happening during the 1950s not the war. I'll change it.

[edit] Page size

Although I'm a big fan of Catherine, I have to say I think this page as it stands is much too long and crufty, in fact it's verging on a description of every sketch in every episode, which is too in-depth for WP. I also don't think characters who appear in multiple series need a new listing under each one saying essentially that the sketches continued in the same vein. The descriptions of the major characters could do with being shortened drastically (or spun off into their own articles, as has happened with Little Britain) and minor characters such as "the backhander woman", "the airhead", "snack food woman" should be removed completely. Any thoughts.....? ChrisTheDude 12:44, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page Size

I must say, i'm beginning to agree. I think that it would be better if we had a separate page for all of the characters, keep a list of the really major characters on The Catherine Tate Show page with a very brief description of each character. Also, I think that we should have list of all of the characters that appeared in sereis one, two and three in different lists on The Catherine Tate Show page. Could someone start a page for a list of all of the characters. Any more thoughts? Eagle Owl 22:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)Eagle Owl

[edit] Catchphrases section

This is getting far too long - is it really ncessary to have six catchphrases for Derek and four for Janice and Ray? In the case of Derek the six "catchphrases" amount to pretty much all the dialogue he ever has! I think the list needs to be pared back down to things that a more casual viewer of the show would automatically associate with the character in question. If you were to ask someone what Janice and Ray's catchphrase was, I don't think they'd suggest "Don't ask" or "listen to this"...... ChrisTheDude 10:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Episodes

I'm not sure if we should start a different page and make a list of episodes from The Catherine Tate Show entitled List of The Catherine Tate Show episodes and have a brief description of what happened in each particular episode, maybe what happened to certain characters. Any thoughts? Eagle Owl 21:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)Eagle Owl