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Jonathan Creek (1997)
Julia Sawalha's performance made Jonathan Creek an even better TV series
I have always liked Jonathan Creek because Alan Davies was hilarious in the show to begin with but in 2001 when the Christmas special episode(Satan's Chimney)had my all time favourite actress the absolutely gorgeous Julia Sawalha playing her role as Carla Borrego i just had to tune in but as i am watching Julia on repeats of series 4 of the series even now i still think Julia is not only the most beautiful woman on the show but has the best comic timing i have ever had the pleasure of watching from any performer on television,Julia is just wonderful,absolutely brilliant and she played her role as Carla beautifully,I wish at some point Julia Sawalha can come back to play Carla Borrego one more time because the last role i had seen Julia Sawalha in a role at the time was in 2000 when she played what i have always said,my favourite role Julia Sawalha ever played and that was when she played wisecracking Aussie barmaid Janet Wilson in series 1 of Time Gentlemen Please and Julia was just so wonderful in the role,I think the British film and TV industry should give this beautiful,wonderful,fantastic and brilliant actress a lifetime achievement award for being fantastic in every single role in every TV series she portrayed because i think she has earned that right for that award by now because the only actress i think should have deserved an award before i ever seen Julia Sawalha as an actress 16 years ago(1989) and that was i think (and i'm proud to say this) the best actress to come from the north west of England and she had a brilliant personality as well as being gorgeous and that was the wonderful Joanne Whalley from Edge of Darkness(1985) and Scandal.I will never ever see such an actress play any roles so fantastic in the way that Julia Sawalha did,because she is such a brilliant actress,she could do comedy with such roles as Janet Wilson and Carla Borrego and play serious roles like as Maria in Hornblower and she puts in 100 per cent performances in all her roles every single time especially in comedy,Julia really is a wonderful comedienne and i could laugh or cry when watching Julia Sawalha as a performer and i think Julia was the perfect lady to be in Jonathan Creek and i think both Julia Sawalha and Alan Davies worked really well together in their roles as Jonathan Creek and Carla Borrego and would love to see both Julia and Alan act together again for more episodes of Jonathan Creek and at that time when Julia Sawalha met Alan Davies while making Jonathan Creek i was so pleased for Julia and i'm not sure weather they are still together or not but if so i would like to wish both Julia and Alan all the best for the future as i don't get to hear what Julia is doing these days,now on the cable/satellite channels on TV i am so glad that i am getting the chance to see Julia Sawalha,my all time favourite actress on television again even if they are playing repeats of her TV/film work and i have never got bored ever with Julia Sawalha or the roles she portrayed as a performer,Julia is both extremely beautiful and she works so hard to give both her fans and other viewers such wonderful performances and is so much a normal person when she is not acting,i always loved Julia so much for that .I was never really interested in Pamela Anderson type actresses,that sort of actress to me always acted amateurish or supermodels who ended up as actresses or some American actresses whose performances ended up more and more irritating with every performance as i have seen most of those type of actresses act and it always looked very Hollywood and fake to me.Julia Sawalha will always be my all time favourite actress for a lot of reasons and would like to have the pleasure to meet that lovely actress one day just to say thanks for being so brilliant both on and off screen.Julia has played some wonderful characters in her career as an actress so far and i will keep a lookout for Julia's next role.Looking forward to seeing more of Jonathan Creek if the BBC make any more,i hope so because Julia Sawalha was brilliant as usual and i cannot see any other actress to play the female sidekick to Jonathan Creek other than Julia Sawalha,She's fantastic.
Time Gentlemen Please (2000)
Brilliant actress Julia Sawalha.
I have to say the best thing about Time Gentlemen Please is Julia Sawalha as Aussie barmaid Janet Wilson and the reason why is that i was a big fan of Julia as an actress ever since she played Lynda Day in Press Gang and enjoyed all her other roles throughout her career so far but i have never ever seen such a performance played so fantastic and funny on any actress in all my life.Julia Sawalha should have won an Oscar for playing Janet and i like the way she brought the famous Aussie humour that Australians have and i'm so glad that they gave Julia as her character(Janet)the opportunity to swear and be as foul mouthed as she liked and that was rare for television.Also there was only five actresses that i know of who could play realistic characters and be really really nice as themselves and that was Julia Sawalha,Danielle McCormack Who plays Mel Barker in My Parents Are Aliens,Australian actresses Taya Straton and Rebecca Dines and it wasn't fair in what happened to Taya Straton as she was the best actress Australia ever had and Sheridan Smith from Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.I always always look forward to watching Julia Sawalha as Janet on Time Gentlemen Please every time they repeat it on the cable/satellite channels and for anybody who hated Julia's performance which i had to read about before i made a comment i couldn't care less what they said because i have seen Julia Sawalha in a lot of roles as an actress over the years and i think not only was she one of the most beautiful ladies i have ever seen in my life but she is an absolutely fantastic actress as far as i was concerned and Julia's performance on the show made Christmas on television again worth watching instead of watching reality rubbish like the X Factor,Pop Idol and various foreign rubbish that is no good whatsoever apart from English,Australian and sometimes Canadian stuff and even tonight's episode(Tuesday 5th January 2005)i wish that Time Gentlemen Please had made more episodes with Julia Sawalha because she was the best actress to play an Aussie considering she was from London,England and it was my favourite role Julia ever played and if Prisoner Cell Block H had still been made now i would have liked to have seen Julia on the show because she started reminding me of not only of how utterly brilliant most of the actresses from Prisoner was but Julia had put in her performance an Aussie sense of humour that was absolutely spot on to her character and turned in a 100 per cent performance every time and was really really funny and so was Al Murray as the landlord that bloke was priceless.I would like to request sky one in England to ask Julia,Al and the rest of the cast to make at least another series because at least it was better than Friends and Julia Sawalha was a better actress than the usual Hollywood star.A truly great performance from a truly fantastic actress.