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Entry: Soap Star Friday Friday, March 21, 2008

It's only natural that I would give you, my fabulous readers, a good treat on Good Friday. So today I'm starting a new segment called Soap Star Friday which will probably run for some time as I'm a huge fan of the soaps. Some more than others, but even the bad and ugly have great moments. This is what this segment is all about. Discovering the brilliance in the old as well as new soaps on TV. It will consist mostly of clips found on YouTube (We love YouTube) but also screen caps and other goodies found, stolen, borrowed or discovered on the almighty interweb.

The show we discover today is a Danish soap. It started in August of last year and ran until Christmas where in ended in a dramatic cliffhanger like all good soaps do. Since you can't understand what they are saying and I am lazy to translate you can go here to check out more background on

2900 Happieness

A colleague of mine and I started watching it thinking it was kitsch and it surely is. Bad acting and bad scripts make a fabulously fun show. We spent many days texting each other laughing over this show. Enjoy the teasers.

Season one now available on DVD here

One of the villains of the show is this guy, David Owe who is a Danish celebrity who made his fame doing Dancing With Stars and did a couple of movies and released an album of covers duetting with his wife on amongs others Where the Wild Roses Grow originally done by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue. Never has such a haunting song been mutilated into something you hear at high tea, But he looks good yeah?

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	CyberPete March 22, 2008 06:26 PM PDT I know, the blonde guy who had an affair with Tanya - mmmmmmm Lovely


	MJ March 22, 2008 06:16 PM PDT You would LOVE Footballers Wives.


	CyberPete March 22, 2008 01:25 PM PDT I tried to watch Eastenders, oh dear lord. That was awful, watching paint drying was more entertaining. Maybe I should start watching Coronation Street. There is also Footballers Wives and Hollyoaks


	Dinah March 22, 2008 07:20 AM PDT I am a huge soap fan. I mostly watch the American ones as the Canadian ones are never very good, and Coronation Street is the only British one I watch. But I love them!


	CyberPete March 22, 2008 02:13 AM PDT IDV: Teehee T.Birdy: They always look prettier on TV. Not everyone looks like that. The way the woman reacts when the fat guy falls over on the stairs reminds me of that of a Spanish telenovella. Hilarious! The show is really camp, but catching a bit of the American soap quality. The little singer boy is cute. His name is Søren Bregendahl and has made an actual album. MJ: The guy David Owe right? He does have a sort of Patrick Swazy feel to him. He actually won the Dancing With the Stars thing


	MJ March 22, 2008 01:50 AM PDT Don't you think he looks like a young Patrick Swayze?


	T-Bird March 22, 2008 12:58 AM PDT No wonder Our Princess Mary loves it over there! Is that how pretty all Danes are? I really like the little singer boy. He looks a little bit like my current celebrity crush, Gael Garcia Bernal. This looks like the sort of soap I could really get into!


	IDV March 22, 2008 12:15 AM PDT Bah! Your comeuppances will come. Both of you!


	CyberPete March 21, 2008 11:32 PM PDT IDV: That would be awesome! sort of phallic I suppose. Are you compensating? MJ: Du kan selv være noget møg! You asked for Danish soap, you got it! Now love it! Sparkly Tim: ZING! Indeed, indeed ouch!


	Tim March 21, 2008 09:58 PM PDT Yes, IDV, it is. Unlike you who was neither. Zing!


	MJ March 21, 2008 07:55 PM PDT Sikke noget møg! In which episode do they bake a gayer cake?


	IDV March 21, 2008 07:33 PM PDT I want to live in a silver tower now. But a taller one than on that soap, though. Oh, Tim. Can't tell the difference between Danish and Dutch? Good job you've got your looks, isn't it!


	CyberPete March 21, 2008 04:42 PM PDT A tiny bit of a difference yes Dutch is a mix of many languages such as English, French, German etc. Danish I have no clue, it's a scandinavian language Who could have known yeah?


	Tim March 21, 2008 04:38 PM PDT What!? There's a difference?! Crumbs!


	CyberPete March 21, 2008 04:33 PM PDT Sparkly Tim: There was much production value and very little talent. They are speaking Danish though, not Dutch


	Tim March 21, 2008 04:08 PM PDT Plus, Dutch makes them sound like they're speaking in tongues or someone's playing the soundtrack backwards.


	Tim March 21, 2008 04:07 PM PDT Wow, I'm amazed by the fact that this show actually appeared to have some production values. And yet it still looks … shite.

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