Favourite Sitcoms

(13-01-2014 14:03 )elgar1uk Wrote:  I am quite shocked that nobody's mentioned Are You Being Served?

i did on page one lol

(10-01-2014 06:49 )HannahsPet Wrote:  

(09-01-2014 19:07 )snookered147 Wrote:  My favourites of all time:

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister .

yeah weird that the old series is still relevent 30 years plus on

So true.
But the remake of Yes Prime Minister they did recently (on GOLD I think?) supposedly "bringing it up to date" with that baldy guy from The Thin Blue Line as the PM was just terrible - clunkingly obvious spoof of the coalition government. And poorly acted, no subtlety whatsoever, total OTT hamming it up - just showed how good Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne were. Just shockingly bad farce.I thought for a moment it must have been written by Ben Elton (Blackadder truly seems like a genuine lucky shot this far on , almost everything else he's done since I've just hated).

"The Thick of It" just pisses all over that remake - and makes it look more dated than the original Yes Minister which still holds up pretty well imo and is much less obvious about which particular government/party it's satirising.

Thought "2012" was really good - similar spoofing of absolutely useless "managers" and meaningless "project speak" about "deliverables" : I have to deal with plonkers like that every working day sadly.

Really liked "Peep Show" as well.

And "The IT Crowd" has a similar silliness level to "Father Ted" and "Black Books" which I both like. Loved the one in the IT Crowd where the Irish guy went into a disabled toilet somewhere in a public building and then pulled the alarm cord by mistake thinking it was the flush and then decided he had to pretend someone had "stolen" his wheelchair and left him lying there. Just cringe-making hilarious.

(13-01-2014 20:08 )M-L-L Wrote:  "The Thick of It" just pisses all over that remake - and makes it look more dated than the original Yes Minister which still holds up pretty well imo and is much less obvious about which particular government/party it's satirising.

Thought "2012" was really good - similar spoofing of absolutely useless "managers" and meaningless "project speak" about "deliverables" : I have to deal with plonkers like that every working day sadly.

True. I too thought that the "Thick of It" and "2012" were the natural heirs to Yes, Prime Minister. Different and more contemporary style, but they had the same razor sharp insight into the folly of modern government.

weird that the gold version was so crap seeing that it was writtern by the same people who wrote the original series think the script was good dont think the actors were up to it

thats the problem with remakes they are never good mean the remake of the rise and fall of reginald perrin with martin clunes was dire compared to the original

(13-01-2014 14:08 )HannahsPet Wrote:  

(13-01-2014 14:03 )elgar1uk Wrote:  I am quite shocked that nobody's mentioned Are You Being Served?

i did on page one lol

Well done for that.

But I am quite shocked that nobody's mentioned On The Buses.

^ I also mentioned On the buses to in same post

(14-01-2014 14:45 )HannahsPet Wrote:  ^ I also mentioned On the buses to in same post

I apologise for my foolishness. It's because I'm old and senile.

Just been rewatching my hero on Netflix that was a good show

Everybody Loves Raymond

(08-01-2014 13:35 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  

(07-01-2014 16:13 )fannysniffer Wrote:  

(07-01-2014 14:42 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  Still Game was one of my favourites - every character in it was funny, especially the corner-shop guy and the Peter Stringfellow barman. One of the few programmes that genuinely made me laugh out loud.
Wish they could make a few more episodes. I suppose their tower-block would have been demolished by now. They can move it to the dead seaside town where Winston moved to.

I heard that there could be more
There was rumours that the writers (who play Jack and Victor) had fallen out, but I've heard that's bull shit and they're gonna be bringing it back.

I only discovered Still game for the first time myself last year, crying shame it's not that well known, because it's right up there with the all time classics IMO.

Ford Kiernan and Greg Hephill did fall out but they seem to have put it behind them now. As far as I know the reunion is only for a stage show at the moment but hopefully a tv series will follow, now they're working together again.

BBC Scotland recorded the actual stage show and broadcast it last night.

I don't know when/if it will be broadcast in the rest of the UK but it's on the i-player till next Friday if there are any fans south of the border

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04...-game-live

Great show, and a little more 'adult' than the tv series