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I used to watch, are you being served. It was corny, it was titillating humour, maybe not as extreme as on the buses. But it was sort of OK to watch, if there was nothing else on the other side. It had some funny moments, but not sure they should bring it back. Looks like they are trying to copy the old characters, with maybe a few new ones.

I wonder if it will be as smutty?
 
Ricardodaforce said:
And Steptoe and Son. Aren't the BBC recreating some lost episodes?
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Found Steptoe and Son a little depressing. Only episode I liked, was the one were escaped convicts broke in, and found themselves worse off. Leonard Rossiter played the lead convict, pretty good ending I thought.
 
The BBC have been searching for that classic SitCom for some time, ever since Outnumbered finished, ever since they have been looking for that 'My Family' 'Vicar of Dibley' 'Only Fools and Horses' but have come up with nothing.
Seem their funding only covers re runs or remakes!
 
J40ADF said:
The BBC have been searching for that classic SitCom for some time, ever since Outnumbered finished, ever since they have been looking for that 'My Family' 'Vicar of Dibley' 'Only Fools and Horses' but have come up with nothing.
Seem their funding only covers re runs or remakes!
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I wish they would find something, get fed up of repeats :(.
 
Well the "Open all Hours" remake went so well they obviously thought....
 
Zzz.... a remake. How original. Seriously, is this the BBC? They've just lost the plot recently. Not content with just becoming a government mouthpiece for journalistic content, they're just showing an alarming lack of creativity lately in all other respects. The only good thing I remember seeing so far this year made by the BBC was Orphan Black and that was BBC America, and a Canadian production by Bell Media... and relegated to BBC Three. Some seriously good stuff on NBC, HBO etc... yet the BBC is just repeats, and twee, unoriginal crap... and repeats.

I'm quite pleased I don't possess a television and source what I watch from elsewhere.

Radio is going the same way too. Evening Radio 1 is crap compared to what it was. Annie Mac is still as good as ever, but since Zane Lowe left, it's been downhill ever since. The Radio 1 Breakfast show is crap since Moyles left. Radio 2 Breakfast show is just Chris Evans being annoying. Thank **** Radio 4 and 6 Music is still functional.

No risk taking any more, which is what happens when you let the suits and bean counters into any creative endeavour; they kill it. The Beeb deserves to just disappear up it's own tight, penny pinching a******e, and I wouldn't miss it for a moment... well, perhaps Radio 4.. I'd miss Radio 4.
 
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They took Open All Hours and completely ruined that with a remake. I dread to think what a remake of something that started out awful will be like.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Zzz.... a remake. How original. Seriously, is this the BBC? They've just lost the plot recently. Not content with just becoming a government mouthpiece for journalistic content, they're just showing an alarming lack of creativity lately in all other respects. The only good thing I remember seeing so far this year made by the BBC was Orphan Black and that was BBC America, and a Canadian production by Bell Media... and relegated to BBC Three. Some seriously good stuff on NBC, HBO etc... yet the BBC is just repeats, and twee, unoriginal crap... and repeats.

I'm quite pleased I don't possess a television and source what I watch from elsewhere.

Radio is going the same way too. Evening Radio 1 is crap compared to what it was. Annie Mac is still as good as ever, but since Zane Lowe left, it's been downhill ever since. The Radio 1 Breakfast show is crap since Moyles left. Radio 2 Breakfast show is just Chris Evans being annoying. Thank **** Radio 4 and 6 Music is still functional.

No risk taking any more, which is what happens when you let the suits and bean counters into any creative endeavour; they kill it. The Beeb deserves to just disappear up it's own tight, penny pinching a******e, and I wouldn't miss it for a moment... well, perhaps Radio 4.. I'd miss Radio 4.
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To be honest, I tend to not have the TV on anymore. It is the missus who posses the TV remote, she loves all her soaps. If I want to be subjected to old repeats, I will go on youtube. At least then, I get to pick and choose.
 
bass_junkie83 said:
They took Open All Hours and completely ruined that with a remake. I dread to think what a remake of something that started out awful will be like.
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I don't think David Jason, taking over Ronnie Barker's role worked.
 
As Mabel Cuxwold put it so eloquently in Viz once:

What a load of rubbish modern so-called comedy programmes are these days. They are usually full of swearing and filth and are just not funny. What ever happened to proper comedies, like the one set in that shop with the s**t-stabber and the woman with the blue hair who was always talking about her c***?
 
I quite liked the new Open all Hours... It was good to get a lot of the old ones back but new faces like Johnny Vegas was good. The only disappointment was the 'new Granville' but it was a lot better than many things on now.

These old programs though are classics and many of us look back fondly on those times, even if the sets were very flimsy and in some ways amateurish. Sadly though the remakes rarely match the originals as I think it was those characters that we liked, as much as the storylines.
 
cambsno said:
I quite liked the new Open all Hours... It was good to get a lot of the old ones back but new faces like Johnny Vegas was good. The only disappointment was the 'new Granville' but it was a lot better than many things on now.

These old programs though are classics and many of us look back fondly on those times, even if the sets were very flimsy and in some ways amateurish. Sadly though the remakes rarely match the originals as I think it was those characters that we liked, as much as the storylines.
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It was all about the writing, and the non PC times, fawlty towers still makes me laugh 40 years on , but there are some mouth open moments, like the racist major
 
wack61 said:
It was all about the writing, and the non PC times, fawlty towers still makes me laugh 40 years on , but there are some mouth open moments, like the racist major
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Had all Fawlty towers on VHS, amazed at some of the things that were said, and some of the bloopers. Had to rewind a few times, amazed at was said.
 
Most people miss the obvious when it comes to creating a modern sit-com, how's it supposed to be original?

The first one's easy, the second a little harder, because at least one great idea has already been done etc etc etc. Before you know where you are, the only choice is create something original which stands a huge chance of being so niche it'll be hated by most, or try to pay homage to an older show, which loads will hate because it'll never match the original.

We also forget that during the 'boom times' there was also a whole host of useless stuff being made.

The simple fact is the past was never the perfect time we remember. For every episode of porridge there's an 'It aint alf hot mum' or 'george & Mildred', for every 'classic' episode of 'Last of the Summer Wine' with the original cast, there's 5 or 6 s***e episodes when the idea was well past it's sell by date.
 
Phil V said:
Most people miss the obvious when it comes to creating a modern sit-com, how's it supposed to be original?

The first one's easy, the second a little harder, because at least one great idea has already been done etc etc etc. Before you know where you are, the only choice is create something original which stands a huge chance of being so niche it'll be hated by most, or try to pay homage to an older show, which loads will hate because it'll never match the original.

We also forget that during the 'boom times' there was also a whole host of useless stuff being made.

The simple fact is the past was never the perfect time we remember. For every episode of porridge there's an 'It aint alf hot mum' or 'george & Mildred', for every 'classic' episode of 'Last of the Summer Wine' with the original cast, there's 5 or 6 s***e episodes when the idea was well past it's sell by date.
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A bit like song remakes, the original was always the best version. There are the odd occasions, when the remake was in fact better than the original. Maybe sometimes we saw / heard the remake first, and prefer that :).
 
I enjoyed a few Les and Roy as Cissy and Ada sketches the other night, love watching the old stuff.
 
Mrs Browns boys - what a load of c*p and that isn't even a remake, oh dear modern comedy leaves me cold, although I think Peter Kay stands out as a modern gem.
Matt
 
Phil V said:
Most people miss the obvious when it comes to creating a modern sit-com, how's it supposed to be original?

The first one's easy, the second a little harder, because at least one great idea has already been done etc etc etc. Before you know where you are, the only choice is create something original which stands a huge chance of being so niche it'll be hated by most, or try to pay homage to an older show, which loads will hate because it'll never match the original.

We also forget that during the 'boom times' there was also a whole host of useless stuff being made.

The simple fact is the past was never the perfect time we remember. For every episode of porridge there's an 'It aint alf hot mum' or 'george & Mildred', for every 'classic' episode of 'Last of the Summer Wine' with the original cast, there's 5 or 6 s***e episodes when the idea was well past it's sell by date.
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I'd be happy with a 50/50 crap ratio
 
Let's face it, they can't make a worse version of Are You Being Served? The original was dire. :(
 
I wonder how a remake of The Goodies would look like? Or perhaps the trio could reprise their roles, but in an old folks home. Mind you, looking at a lot of the '70's episodes, you could tell the BBC was a lot more generous budget-wise at that time.

These days it would take a lot for a comedy programme to curl my lips upwards, but The Royale Family has that effect on me.
 
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Graham W said:
Re. Citizen Smith. Am I the only person who remembers the forerunner to that, "Get Some In", where it was Jakey Smith? With Robert Lindsey in the title roll and I think Mike Grady was also in it.
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I remember it, three f smith I think he was known as. As Robert Lindsay would say Smiff :).
 
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