Satellite City (1996– ) User Reviews

Where are the Satellite City fans ?

[kandee · 9/10 · 16 March 2006]

I know that there are some out there but why aren't you talking about this excellent comedy which is currently (feb 2006) being repeated on BBC2W Digital (available on Sky and Freeview). If more interest is shown in this Bafta winning show then perhaps a DVD set might be released by the BBC in the near future (or possibly a national transmission on a terrestrial channel) If anyone outside Wales is thinking about watching it, then don't worry! you don't have to be welsh to enjoy it - but it might make it funnier. lol

BTW: who put that quote on the page? I had a clean sweep (every entry on the page) until that was put there. Oh well, at least someone else is thinking about it. :)

Brilliant

[valcoaz · 8/10 · 30 January 2024]

I am from the US and I just stumbled upon this. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time and I don't know really why because at first it seems absurd yet it is just funny. "I am an American" is cracking me up. Thank you for this show bc I have been so depressed and this has been a light into my world. I have never watched a Welsh show and I am really enjoying it. I donot really think you have to be from Wales to enjoy this because I get all the jokes. I think it is just another ridiculous family that you are seeing a glimpse into, except this family is just off their rockers and I just love it.

Satellite City is a must see comedy series

[davidmayer-2 · 10/10 · 17 May 2009]

This is a marvellous and so accurate portrayal of life in the South Wales Valleys. It is set in the Rhondda but it could easily apply to any of the valleys. When I watched it the 90s it was like being back at home at the top of the Eastern Valley. A decade later and my teenage son somehow found it just as relevant and just as funny. Boyd Clack is superb, as he is in everything he has done. He has a subtle understanding of Valleys patois and the centre-periphery antipathy towards the big city. In Cardiff of course they still eat the heads of visitors from the valleys as I suppose they do in Newport and Swansea. I once saw Boyd outside a bookshop in the city and he still had his head. The casting of Randy is an inspirational foil to the bizarre mentality of the inhabitants of this typical Welsh town.

The best of the best

[paul-matthews11 · 19 April 2006]

Having taken up the challenge of the last review. I have pondered on the interest of this fantastic comedy. I use the word fantastic in more than one way. Besides being hilarious, this show has everything. A mad-cap family from the valleys, a new-age American student, a bit of fluff that fancies him like mad - you know what I mean like. A barman who's not right in the head and some of the funniest things you can imagine. The episodes usually build in a frantic and energetic method and end in a blaze of comedy that is rarely, and I mean rarely done in other things (Maybe High Hopes - the new series that the writer/actor has moved onto). Needless to say you will cry with laughter after watching a few of these episodes and the old man's sayings linger in the mind, like a a silver cloud drifting through a smog of desperation, or something like that anyway. The fact that he was a bus driver and he run over his wife who was hard, and I mean hard, has left a dent in his psyche abit, but his stories are priceless. I have hunted high and low for a video or DVD, but none are available and the BBC have no plans as yet - sad really, but life I suppose.

"Satellite City" Better than only fools..............

[m-perry-5 · 2 April 2006]

Satellite City, what an excellent show. Most people outside of Wales just don't get it, the show doesn't travel well, however for those that know quality and talent when they see it will agree its one of the best easily as good as Only fools and Horses oh yes. Surreal comedy based around the misadventures of the Price family, Brilliant satire on life in the Welsh valleys, with true to life characters and valley wit! An amusing insight which those in the know will recognise as being as damn near the real thing as you can get, and set in a forgotten town in the Rhondda valley in Wales its pure Magic. What a pity the BBC have not yet released it on DVD. Lobby the BBC

Mike