BBC Sitcom "re-boots"
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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.
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 said:
LuS1fer said:
I turned off about 10 minutes in.
Well done. I only managed 3 minutes! I suspect it will tour on the stage, hence the 'staged' production.
megaphone said:
MYOB said:
LuS1fer said:
I turned off about 10 minutes in.
Well done. I only managed 3 minutes! I suspect it will tour on the stage, hence the 'staged' production.
PoleDriver said:
megaphone said:
MYOB said:
LuS1fer said:
I turned off about 10 minutes in.
Well done. I only managed 3 minutes! I suspect it will tour on the stage, hence the 'staged' production.
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.
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.
+1The 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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