Cast Confirmation of No Second Series!
I've had a lovely lovely letter from Jessica Oyelowo today and apparently the Beeb have decided against a second series. Gutting news I know but I thought it was probably worth sharing...
shareThanks very much for posting this - it doesn't make it any the less disappointing but at least now we don't live in false hope.
There's no doubt as far as I am concerned that MAYO was a very distinctive piece of work that was enormously enjoyed and loved by the people who got the idea, and viewed with bafflement and dislike by the rest.
Well, leave them to all their crummy template-made 'flagship dramas', I don't have to watch them, but it does annoy me when the mooing herd has so much sway over what is actually produced and aired. The BBC is still far from lowest-common-denominator television, but sometimes I do wonder.... It was nice to be treated as in a sense a co-conspirator instead of just the viewing public.
Can I encourage everyone who liked MAYO to contact the BBC and ask when the DVD will be issued - at least then they'll grasp that there IS a demand for it!
And please pass on my compliments to Jessica O. - that was an excellent performance.
Not very surprising there'll be no 2nd series. I kept watching hoping it would get better - but it never did.
Was the last episode the one where {SPOILER ALERT} he found out his wife was back?
Will there be a Xmas special or something to clear up the cliffhanger?
"hoping it would get better" - good grief WHAT do you WANT ?
I think it was one of the best made, best shot, best acted, scripted, whatever else you like (and the music was excellent too) things that ANY channel has shown recently but I could of course be totally misled and my forty-odd years of enthusiasm for tv should possibly have better prepared me for The Vice or Silent Witness or some 'classic' stuff like that.
But really, I'm not being unreasonable here - what did you think it meant to deliver and failed in providing?
The dialogue was badly written and the acting made it sound even worse.
The murder plots were too mundane to be quirky, and too silly to be grimly realistic.
The 2 main actors gave no hint of a David and Maddy from Moonlighting, or even Creek & Maddy from Jonathan Creek, type witty, points-scoring, blossoming relationship.
But basically, it's worst crime was that it wasnt funny. (And before anyone says that it wasnt meant to be - I'm pretty sure all that heavy over-acting implies that it was).
Anyway - what happened with the wife? Why did she vanish? Was it her who came back at the end of the last episode?
OK, can't argue with you as in simple terms my own reaction to everything you cite is completely the opposite. There's obviously no way we'll see eye to eye about this.
In simple terms I found MAYO one of the most engaging and enjoyable things I have seen for years - a fine example of everything good about television. I am genuinely sorry you don't feel the same way. I particularly liked the dialogue because, amazingly, that is the way that people with a bit of wit and charm actually speak (unless they've been contaminated by too much bloody awful Rowan Atkinson rubbish).
Of course I am sure there are people who think I'm daft when I say I can't stand things like CSI MIAMI or SILENT WITNESS or anything with Ross Kemp in it...now if we're talking badly written, badly filmed, cliched rubbish...
So no-one knows the deal with the wife, then?
And it looks as if the Beeb are gonna leave it hanging (Blakes 7 style)?
Ah, well. At least that way it might have a bit of cult status in 10 years time.
Arguing matters of taste is like fighting a war with butter. I would have liked to have seen the show so I could make up me mind. I saw the pretty girl with the unusual name in this film called The Sight so I looked around about her and found this.
shareYou know I like CSI Miami--mostly because of Emily Procter (sp?) David Caruso can get a bit much. So anyway, there I was surfing BBC America as I was going through withdrawal from Robin Hood (yes--loyal JA fan here)and Dr. Who. Luckily I found the Gil Mayo Mysteries. To say that it's subtle is really hyperbole. It is so well written and so delightful. I thoroughly enjoy this program. It's disappointing to learn that only one season was made. I'm not sure I understand the basic plot though, I thought the two main characters were "exes"--Who's the "wife"?
share"Lynn" was Mayo's wife, who up and disappeared on Gil and his daughter. No explanation, no clue if she was alive, dead or kidnapped by space aliens. I think Gil accidentally sold her on Ebay.
shareYou know, Padzok, for not liking the show...THEY HOOKED YOU! What happened? Why did?....sounds like you did like it.
I'm actually from the US and stumbled onto the show (Saw 'Mile High' here on BBC America, loved a bit part played by Lucy Evans and found 'Myo'...also found 'Green Wing'....wish they made these comedys over here!)
Would anyone recommend more of these types of shows from the BBC?...we get crapy Situational Comedies that try to make you laugh & cry in the same half hour!
If it wasn't that great why are you interested?
I just discovered the shows on BBC America. Just finished watching the last episode and want more!!!
It's refreshing to have a show like this without all of the commercialized, over-sexualized pandering we have here on network tv.
They just finished airing it on ABC in Australia and I'm really disappointed that they're not doing a second series! Come on Alex and Gil, get it sorted out! But it was a good little show,very engaging, it's a real shame that they're not bringing it back! Between this and distant shores not being shown!
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