BBC Sitcom "re-boots"

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LuS1fer

41,668 posts

251 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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Woeful.

I'm not sure why they did it as a bare bones stage set when the original set was hardly expensive, being mostly set in a living room.

Regardless, TDUDP was a reflection on a particular social time, expressing social comment and satire so didn't work as a reboot.

I turned off about 10 minutes in.

MYOB

4,990 posts

144 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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LuS1fer said:
I turned off about 10 minutes in.
Well done. I only managed 3 minutes!

megaphone

10,910 posts

257 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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MYOB said:
LuS1fer said:
I turned off about 10 minutes in.
Well done. I only managed 3 minutes!
I enjoyed it, laughed quite a bit. Was a bit too young to have seen the original series, seen re-runs occasionally, for some reason they are not repeated much!

I suspect it will tour on the stage, hence the 'staged' production.

PoleDriver

28,777 posts

200 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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megaphone said:
MYOB said:
LuS1fer said:
I turned off about 10 minutes in.
Well done. I only managed 3 minutes!
I enjoyed it, laughed quite a bit. Was a bit too young to have seen the original series, seen re-runs occasionally, for some reason they are not repeated much!

I suspect it will tour on the stage, hence the 'staged' production.
It was extremely 'am-dram'!

The Don of Croy

6,090 posts

165 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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PoleDriver said:
megaphone said:
MYOB said:
LuS1fer said:
I turned off about 10 minutes in.
Well done. I only managed 3 minutes!
I enjoyed it, laughed quite a bit. Was a bit too young to have seen the original series, seen re-runs occasionally, for some reason they are not repeated much!

I suspect it will tour on the stage, hence the 'staged' production.
It was extremely 'am-dram'!
I enjoyed it! Thought Day made a passable attempt at the mannerisms etc and effected the attitude of Garnett well.

Sixpence for the phonebox - it's a foreign language...

Having watched it 'live' in the 60's and 70's the putative son-in-law always looked old (played by Tony Blair's FiL) but this one looked too young?

I'll try to catch the Hancock one too - the cast looks v. good.

AlexC1981

5,022 posts

223 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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I know it's cheesy, but I will never tire of Mrs Slocombe's pussy.


Trabi601

4,865 posts

101 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Goodnight Sweetheart was actually pretty good. My favourite so far - maybe I'm a bit odd, but I'd like to see a new series.

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

267 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Trabi601 said:
Goodnight Sweetheart was actually pretty good. My favourite so far - maybe I'm a bit odd, but I'd like to see a new series.
+1

The original series annoyed me because such a promising idea was wasted, most of it was just a sitcom about a bigamist and the potential of the time travel was ignored. I'd like to see a new series just on the off chance they make a better job of it.

Also liked the way Phoebe and Reg had rationalised Gary's musical compositions cropping up on the radio.

evilmunkey

1,377 posts

165 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Yup Goodnight Sweetheart was great tonight. realy enjoyed it and would love to see a series with Gary trying to see his daughter and deal with 2016. best so far.

LuS1fer

41,668 posts

251 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Oddly, I agree, the two kids in different times has real potential and I think they know it and would be very surprised if this isn't already a series in the offing - lots of threads left open and a touch of Back to the Future Marty and George McFlyery, including the reference to the hoverboard.

Young Hyacinth was a bit of a dead end though - started off promisingly with good mastery of Hyacinth's mastery of denial but ultimately, it trailed off into banality and can safely be filed away as a half-decent one-off but a series...no.

telecat

8,528 posts

247 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Of those so far "Goodnight Sweetheart" works because of the potential that's there. Two kids 54 years apart and the clash between the "three" time zones. Gary's Pheobe's and Yvonne's. The fact the cast is the same is a bonus and that the majority are now in on the "joke" helps. of the rest only "Porridge" showed any potential. AYBS is stuck and the "remake" does work but only because the original cast is so easy to impersonate.

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

267 months

Saturday 3rd September 2016
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I'd like to see a young Sybil Fawlty (as she then wasn't) just to see how she and Basil are supposed to have got together.

Pistom

5,564 posts

165 months

Sunday 4th September 2016
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I enjoyed most of these to varying degrees. With GS, what surprised me was just how much the world has changed in 17 years!

Sadly none of it was comedy genius and whilst of all of them, GS could justify the cast, the others wasted the opportunity in not using new talent. I mean Roy Baraclough? I thought he'd died!

Seemed like an easy ride for some old luvvies.

FourWheelDrift

89,523 posts

290 months

Sunday 4th September 2016
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Goodnight Sweetheart worked because it was all the original cast members. Something they can't do with the others (Young Hyacinth excluded).

Trabi601

4,865 posts

101 months

Sunday 4th September 2016
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ash73 said:
His mate has put on a few pounds eek
He was always a 'larger' gentleman - even in his days in Bread he was the chubby one.

Pistom

5,564 posts

165 months

Sunday 4th September 2016
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ash73 said:
His mate has put on a few pounds eek
Haven't we all.

Yvonne could do with losing a bit too.

zeb

3,234 posts

224 months

Monday 5th September 2016
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Goodnight Sweetheart was very good, i'd be happy for another series to come out of it.

KaraK

13,267 posts

215 months

Monday 5th September 2016
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I loved Goodnight Sweetheart during it's original run and while the continuation wasn't the best episode I thought it was solid and certainly made a good case for a full revival. Seeing Gary trying to cope with how different the world of 2016 is from the time he left was funny probably has some mileage in it, flipping the original premise on it's head a bit as now the past is actually the time he is more familiar with. Also some room to explore him attempting to establish a relationship with his daughter. The son needs some work though - despite not being in the episode much he still managed to be the most annoying thing in the show by miles!

Pistom

5,564 posts

165 months

Monday 5th September 2016
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KaraK said:
The son needs some work though - despite not being in the episode much he still managed to be the most annoying thing in the show by miles!
Agreed

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

267 months

Monday 5th September 2016
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Just been told that 'Ellie' was played by Emma Amos's real life daughter.