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I have very little to say but I love this show , it makes me cry with laughter and tears on a weekly basis , thanks

Thank you so much the Misses Kilcoyne for your wonderful show. It is beautifully written and so insightful as well as funny, helped of course by Dawn French and Alfred Molina. Great acting but it wouldn't work without your words.

I can't wait till next week as I believe it is not heading for tragedy. I don't think I could take any more.

This programme is brilliant! I picked up almost immediately the tragedy thatthey were living with. I grew up in a house where a little boy, my brother, also called Christopher, had died. There was a strange sense of loss that pervaded the whole family for years, decades, after... Until we were in a place were we could confront a lot of the feelings that were just frozen out for all those years. Even now it can be tricky to talk about... Seeing Roger and Val's lives play out just feels so familiar. Brilliantly written and my thoughts are with your friend who so tragically lost her baby but so bravely ensured she lives on through this story. xx

I have never been driven to comment on anything I've watched on TV before but just had to look up Roger and Val on the 91Èȱ¬ website after watching tonight's episode.
I cried proper tears last week when it became clear that Roger and Val had lost a child. The series has really overwhelemed me. It is just so brilliant and like nothing else I have ever seen.
I wish I had the words to convey how much I think of the series and just wanted to congratulate the writers on producing a programme that combines comedy with such a difficult subject, and gets it so right.

Sorry, but in this situation there is no comedy. I know they can both act, brilliantly, but they are just digging a grave here. My Broadcasting Licence fee deserves better.

This is my first ever comment about a TV show. Brilliant, reduced to tears by how suddenly the emotional intensity deepened and darkened.

This TV show is what the 91Èȱ¬ is all about, brillant writing and actors.
Like the other comments this show invokes all emotions which makes for unmissable TV.

I have enjoyed this series immensely and must admit to a lump in my throat after tonight's episode. The bitter sweet edge reminds me of Alan Bennett. Here's hoping for another series.

I Love Roger & Val, it makes me laugh one minute and cry the next, brilliantly acted and just one of my hi lights of the week. I guess some viewers may just not 'get it' which is a great shame.

I watched episode five fully expecting more tears but instead found myself laughing throughout the whole e-mail saga. Utterly brilliant! Then, a smack in the face as the mood changed completely. And there were the tears. This is what I expect from the 91Èȱ¬. Superb writing, production, casting...everything. Can't wait for next week's episode but at the same time I'm afraid of what might happen. Haven't felt like this about a programme for a long time. I think the 91Èȱ¬ should have sold it as a comedy drama though, not a sit-com. Superb.

There'll be a huge void Friday evenings without Roger and Val. I'll miss their foibles, tragedy, comedy and comfortingly untidy kitchen. I may not bother with TV at all if they don't come back. They make the 91Èȱ¬ licence fee worth buying.

This is not a comedy - well not in the "ha ha ha" sense of the word, which is refreshing (if depressing) don't make another series - it should stand on its own, but please do commission more programming like this.

It's an emotionally draining but utterly brilliant bit of television.

I just love Roger and Val - the insightful writing and superb acting are a joy. Congratulations to all involved in this production.

I saw this for the first time last night. It was wonderful - beautifully written, superbly performed. Cliche, but I did literally cry with laughter and sadness. Only thing - Jim Cartwright did same storyline in his wonderful play 'To'. But doesn't detract from it being wonderful stuff (just feel Jim deserves acknowledgement). But well done.

I saw this for the first time last night. It was wonderful - beautifully written, superbly performed. Cliche, but I did literally cry with laughter and sadness. Only thing - Jim Cartwright did same storyline in his wonderful play 'To'. But doesn't detract from it being wonderful stuff (just feel Jim deserves acknowledgement). Well done.

I’ve come in to this programme very late – somehow I completely missed all advance notices and only caught episode 4 by accident. I was completely drawn in. It is so beautifully written and expertly acted. In many ways it owes a lot to The Royle Family and Talking Heads – lots of dialogue seemingly about mundane meaningless things but masking so much more underneath. Such a beautiful and moving programme. It’s not often a programme requires a little extra of its audience, expecting them to join the dots themselves and figure out what’s really going on and treating them with a degree of intelligence. It’s a standard to aspire to in my own writing.

Reading other peoples’ comments here is interesting – those who don’t ‘get it’ are of course entitled to their own tastes and opinions, but why be so unpleasant about it? Clearly a lot of people do ‘get it’, and their appraisals are far more eloquently put. Comedy is many things. If it doesn’t make you laugh out loud or contain ‘jokes’, that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny. This programme works in a way more subtle than a lot of viewers are used to, and I’m very grateful for it. For those keen to express how much they hate the programme due to its lack of ‘jokes’, I suggest the Little Britain repeats on 91Èȱ¬3.

An oustanding programme. It's thoughtful and the performances are brilliant. I think we all see aspects of ourselves in the characters to some extent, which is why some don't like it.

A great episode to end the series. This gets my vote for the best new show of 2010. Really hoping for a second series, as I'm loving these characters and want to see much more of them. A really brave TV person would give the first series a re-run on 91Èȱ¬ One, where I have a feeling it would pick up some more fans. This is a show that probably wouldn't have had a chance of being commissioned anywhere other than the Beeb and is exactly the kind of programme is should be trying to do more of.

Congrats to all the team involved, with a special mention of the writers. This is some of the best dialogue I have heard in a long, long time. Beautiful. :)

Oh, and some gongs for Dawn and Alfred's performances in this wouldn't go amiss either, as they were nuanced and pitch perfect.

Congratulations to Beth & Emma! What a brilliant first series "Roger & Val" has been! I have so enjoyed getting to know Roger & Val over the past six weeks. They are an inspiration & an example to those of us who have lost both babies & parents of how to "carry-on" in the wake of so much grief. You don't have to have suffered the loss of a child to "get" this series, simply perhaps be aware of the consequences of such a loss.

This is such a sad story, but absolutely brimming with love, warmth, compassion & humour. Roger & Val are such a devoted couple, rarely seen on TV these days, who have had to learn to live with not only the loss of a child, but also with the fact that no other child has come along since that loss. Often, such tragedy results in couples separating, but here we see how one couple managed to stay together after such a loss; through love & humour. Roger & Val have given us a rare insight into the lives of millions of couples around the world who live in the aftermath of losing a child.

I am so, so pleased to see such a difficult & terribly sad subject aired on television in such an intelligent & sensitive manner. The script is beautifully written, the acting flawless, the production superb. It's fantastic to see something so new & fresh, so original on our screens again. I haven't enjoyed a series this much since "The Office" & "Gavin & Stacey".

Thank you, 91Èȱ¬, for having the courage to commission such a series. I have never commented about a TV series before, but I have been so moved by Roger & Val that I have felt compelled to make a contribution to this Blog. Watching Roger & Val has unearthed some very deep emotions for me, taking me back to a time of great saddness in my life some 7 years ago when I lost a twin pregnancy. Thankfully, I went on to have another two children after that loss, but watching Roger & Val gave me an insight into how different my life might have been had they not come along, as it often does for a great many couples.

Finally, I just wanted to mention that it might have been useful to mention some helpline/support contact details at the end of the series, for those who "might have been affected" by its content. In particular, "The Babyloss" website,(www.babyloss-awareness.org) which has affiliations with a number of charitable organisations, (SANDS, FSID, Miscarriage Assoc, EPT), might have been a useful one to use. I hope I'm not speaking out of turn when I mention them here. Apologies if I am!

"Roger & Val" in three words; Beautiful, Intelligent, Funny.

I would like to marry Roger. He is so understanding it's almost unbelievable (but I still have faith). Both show all our weaknesses but also our heroic strengths; what a great mountain to climb.
I have found this to be almost the only decent thing worth watching on TV. Long may this standard of acting and writing continue - I do miss it now its gone. Please come back.

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Roger and Val Have Just Got In was a collection of genius scripts peerlessly acted. Deliciously sad but still life affirming. Will there be more? I really hope so.

I cant tell you how much I enjoyed Roger and Val, and how delighted I was to read somewhere that there is to be a second series. It is so beautifully written and both Dawn French and Alfred Molina are superb as Val and Roger. I'm not sure why it works - but it does.
Congratulations to all concerned - it was worth the licence fee on its own.