Talking of editing, Green Wing is just as exceptionally well executed as it first seemed ten years ago. The use of editing, to constantly change film speeds throughout a scene, is extremely well done ... Dominic Brigstocke and Tristram Shapeero (both much on TV) directed it, using the backdrop of Basingstoke Hospital and it was edited by Billy Sneddon and Lucien Clayton, who appear to have created this style in the cutting room (it may have been back in creator Victoria Pile's head). Pile tried to pull it (the whole thing) off again, with Campus, but somehow it just didn't work.
It certainly wasn't the first time we'd encountered certain members of this exceptional cast: Tamsin Greig (Black Books), Mark Heap (a Chris Morris alumni: Jam, Brass Eye and Spaced) and Sarah Alexander (Smack the Pony), though we probably didn't recognise our great Olivia Colman, Stephen Mangan, Julian Rhind-Tutt (the coolest character), Karl Theobald, Paterson Joseph, Oliver Chris and the extraordinarily funny Michelle Gomez who - like Vivian Pickles in Harold and Maude - makes me laugh the moment I see her, usually in expectation of whatever nonsense she's about to perform.
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