BBC Sitcom "re-boots"
Discussion
I was a huge fan of both Porridge and Goodnight Sweetheart and so it would have been very likely that I would have hated the re-boot.
I enjoyed both. Porridge more than Goodnight Sweetheart and I'd like to see both of them return in their new form.
They massively over-laboured the pineapple chucks, but the two fingers was a good homage to the original. The geek in me loved the recognition that Fletch was after the Pringles tube and not the pringles. It felt like an in-joke.
Goodnight Sweetheart could return because the dynamics are now so different. Where before Gary was a fish out of water in the past, it's now the present where he's a visitor. That Yvonne knows what he's doing eliminates the problem the original had of Gary going to "collectors fairs" and not having a phone. The daughter is a hook for him to return.
There is a huge potential in it.
Marks & Gran are fantastic. I really enjoyed the radio play "Von Ribbentrop's Watch" not realising that it was based on a true story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/7990230...
Simon
I enjoyed both. Porridge more than Goodnight Sweetheart and I'd like to see both of them return in their new form.
They massively over-laboured the pineapple chucks, but the two fingers was a good homage to the original. The geek in me loved the recognition that Fletch was after the Pringles tube and not the pringles. It felt like an in-joke.
Goodnight Sweetheart could return because the dynamics are now so different. Where before Gary was a fish out of water in the past, it's now the present where he's a visitor. That Yvonne knows what he's doing eliminates the problem the original had of Gary going to "collectors fairs" and not having a phone. The daughter is a hook for him to return.
There is a huge potential in it.
Marks & Gran are fantastic. I really enjoyed the radio play "Von Ribbentrop's Watch" not realising that it was based on a true story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/7990230...
Simon
4 minutes into the Steptoe re-hash... thats all I could take. Did it get any better?
When the originals are so good I really did'nt see the need for this one at all.
To make matters worse, I heard the lad that they picked to play Harold doing a R4 comedy club interview a few nights before this aired and he admitted to having never watched an episode of Steptoe & Son before... NO s
t! I could have put in a better performance than that!!
...One redeeming feature, the old chap did sound a bit like Albert.
When the originals are so good I really did'nt see the need for this one at all.
To make matters worse, I heard the lad that they picked to play Harold doing a R4 comedy club interview a few nights before this aired and he admitted to having never watched an episode of Steptoe & Son before... NO s
t! I could have put in a better performance than that!!...One redeeming feature, the old chap did sound a bit like Albert.
Steamer said:
4 minutes into the Steptoe re-hash... thats all I could take. Did it get any better?
When the originals are so good I really did'nt see the need for this one at all.
To make matters worse, I heard the lad that they picked to play Harold doing a R4 comedy club interview a few nights before this aired and he admitted to having never watched an episode of Steptoe & Son before... NO st! I could have put in a better performance than that!!
...One redeeming feature, the old chap did sound a bit like Albert.
This is an interesting point. Harry Corbett and Wilfrid Bramble created their characters from scratch, so the lad you mention is only doing the same. But a lot of the gripes about these remakes/reboots is that the actors aren't playing a character - they're playing the actor playing the character. So what do we want - a fresh take on it or the 'Are You Being Served?' approach?When the originals are so good I really did'nt see the need for this one at all.
To make matters worse, I heard the lad that they picked to play Harold doing a R4 comedy club interview a few nights before this aired and he admitted to having never watched an episode of Steptoe & Son before... NO s
t! I could have put in a better performance than that!!...One redeeming feature, the old chap did sound a bit like Albert.
kowalski655 said:
Probably cant get the stars into a contract
Which would be odd as given that the end of the episode was clearly written to expect a continuation you'd have thought they would have had some sort of option for a series pick up written into their contracts for that? Unless they did but didn't lock down salary expectations and the stars are now asking for too much?Or it could be yet another example of a BBC brain-fart where they inexplicably cancel something people actually like (e.g. Mongrels, F1)
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