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San Stefanos on TV - Thursday 11th Oct - ITV1

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Gill C:
Also looking forward to next weeks as our friends Heather and Bern were filmed in their 60th anniversary year when they were there in June.Bern is now suffering from dementia but feels very comfortable in San Stefanos with Noula and the girls there for any help needed.Its one place he can go for a walk and feel safe because he knows the area and many of the locals.

lilly:
Hi Gill, I saw the preview about your friends, really looking forward to watching, dementia is a terrible thing, my Dad has recently been diagnosed with vascular dementia caused by a major stroke which he had a few years ago, it is such a cruel disease, I am so glad that your friends feel safe in Sans Stefanos, it truly is such an amazing place, I have been recording the programmes so I can watch them again whenever I need a dose of Corfu, only 7 months until our next visit, this time for 3 weeks, hope this winter passes quickly.

Teamnickos:
Really enjoyed watching as brought back
 special memories of ag stephans (Nw) and Noula and the girls. BUT really irritated by the toffs wanting to redesign the villa and get rid of 'the stick ' .....get a flippin life

D@G:
Excellent post Jimbo, I agree 100%.

I'm enjoying the series and looking forward to the rest.

Jimbo:
Thanks, D@G

I've spent a lot of my working life writing and doing radio and TV, and it is annoying when people make judgements without actually having seen the whole thing. I've been at previews of my plays where TV critics or those who write the week's previews turn up 20 minutes late and leave 10 minutes before the end, and then write snide remarks. I've reviewed stage plays for the New Statesman, and felt a great weight of duty to be careful and fair.

Agios Stephanos is not the subject - it's just part of the tapestry. I could make a documentary about the village which would indeed be two contrasting things: the image projected by the local people, and the underlying culture which is suppressed or "re-packaged" over the summer. There are, in the village, diametrically opposed views on how things should move forward commercially. There are family feuds and feuds within families; there are minor jealousies. Think "The Archers" and move it to a corner of Corfu. Think what it's like when they retreat up the hill to Avliotes in the winter to meet and drink coffee and eat real Greek food, which is not quite the same as the "Greek" food we mostly eat; similar, but subtly different.

In the interim, my current view is that the series is a little bit too "easy" because it's quite simple to shoot some hurray-Henrys on one side of the island and a tribute singer in Sidari. Do we criticise the girl for working out how to make a living? I don't think so. It's not what I want - I prefer Bach and Stravinsky - but she's fulfilling a need, filling a slot, getting paid, and good luck to her!

The big game is being played-out elsewhere. Greece will probably get one more bail-out to give more money to the bankers. Unemployment is rising. More and more people are starving in the cities at least. This cannot be reflected in the programmes because they are "sealed" at the point that shooting finished. I sincerely hope that they will have made more than a gesture towards the difficult circumstances that put dark clouds over Greece and the people we have come to know and love. They rarely tell us the uncertainties that lie behind the smiles.   

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