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[Guy Profumo]

Which madman (or madwoman) thought this might be a good idea?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36715695

[Jah Womble]

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Tippa Irie earworm.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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The season will also include new episodes of Are You Being Served?, Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Porridge, Keeping Up Appearances and Up Pompeii!.

Oh dear. Brexit TV. Can't possibly end well can it.

[G-Man]

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RAH Band earworm.
Conway Twitty earworm.

[Guy Profumo]

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Only a matter of time beITVLawks retaliate with On The Buses, Curry and Chips, and Lawks! I've Moved Next Door to a Darkie.

[Gerontophile]

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In the countryside, many years ago, they had a reality series/comedy mashup called "Last of the Summer Buses".

[Gangster Octopus]

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G-Man wrote: RAH Band earworm.
Conway Twitty earworm.

Whereas it made me think of Charlie Drake...

[Stumpy Pepys]

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The ghost of Ed "Stewpot" Stewart?

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

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How are they making a new episode of porridge? Isn't everyone involved dead?

[Stumpy Pepys]

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The Awesome Berbaslug!!! wrote: How are they making a new episode of porridge? Isn't everyone involved dead?

Peter Vaughan's still alive surprisingly. As are Biggins and Tony Osoba (McClaren). Pretty much everyone else is dead.

[Benjm]

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Marks & Gran have already got away with resurrecting Birds Of A Feather: it is hard to see this as a greater outrage.

[San Bernardhinault]

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Amor de Cosmos wrote: The season will also include new episodes of Are You Being Served?, Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Porridge, Keeping Up Appearances and Up Pompeii!.

Oh dear. Brexit TV. Can't possibly end well can it.

Before I read the article, I just assumed this was Amor taking the piss. I find it hard to believe that it's real.

[Calvert]

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At least four of those shows are brilliant.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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Indeed so, which is a very good reason not to remake them.

[Jah Womble]

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Quite. Why the eff do they do it?

I felt the same about that wretched Dad's Army film - and then made the mistake of sharing this opinion on Facebook.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Je Suis Womble wrote: Quite. Why the eff do they do it?

I felt the same about that wretched Dad's Army film …

Did it make a profit?

[Sean of the Shed]

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Are You Being Served?

I can't imagine what kind of state Mrs Slocombe's pussy is in now.

[Jah Womble]

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Stumpy Pepys wrote:

Quite. Why the eff do they do it?

I felt the same about that wretched Dad's Army film …

Did it make a profit?

It took around £10m worldwide at the box office, apparently, but I've no idea how it did in terms of home sales.

I'd be surprised if it turned much of a profit, tbh. It still seems to me the biggest waste of time and talent imaginable.

[Guy Profumo]

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Stumpy Pepys wrote:

How are they making a new episode of porridge? Isn't everyone involved dead?

Peter Vaughan's still alive surprisingly. As are Biggins and Tony Osoba (McClaren). Pretty much everyone else is dead.

David Jason and Dudley Sutton are also both still alive.

[Satchmo Distel]

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Are You Being Served is still on PBS in the US. It is a Carry On rip-off essentially. You can match the stereotypes, e.g. Humphries Hawtree, the Sid James Jack The Lad, the dolly bird, Sugden-Jaques

Yet the Yanks famously never understood the crux of Fawlty Towers.

[Duncan Gardner]

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Tiddles (Mrs Slocombe's Pussy) is back. Anyone see it last night?

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

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I urge everyone familiar with 1970s British peak-time comedy to click on that link - the "Are You Being Served" summary is just one of several pieces of brilliance. One of wingco's best ever imho.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

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Tiddles (Mrs Slocombe's Pussy) is back. Anyone see it last night?

Not the whole thing no, but just skimmed through some brief moments on I-player. As woeful as you might expect, perhaps worse. Panned in the reviews today.

Whilst remakes of wonderful stuff like Dad's Army or Ealing classics are just horrible, remakes of rubbish like "Are You Being Served" actually serve a useful purpose of illustrating by contrast that the original had many redeeming features, such as deftness of touch by actors and scriptwriters alike.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

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One thing I couldn't get out of my head was that, whilst they had obviously made some effort in the casting to find look-alikes for the original actors, the guy playing Mr Humphries actually bore a closer resemblance to Ralph Cifaretto from The Sopranos.

[Bored Of Education]

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Seriously though, Goodnight Sweetheart? Radio 4 announced this while we were eating tea and I almost dropped my sandwich in surprise in the same manner you would if you heard that if you heard that Iggy Pop ad kicked the bucket.

I now realise that I have painted myself into a scene that wouldn't look out of place in "Goodnight Sweetheart". I don't want to put a grubby veneer to the thread but was he actually shagging both of the female leads? Did it become entertaining when he realised, "Back to the future"-style, that she was his long-lost gran or something?