Open All Hours in one-off return

I read somewhere that the head of the BBC said that with this half hour special, the christmas schedule now seems complete!

Doesn't bode well for the xmas viewing.
 
Whilst I've no doubt it won't be a patch on the originals, given it's got the same writer and two of the three reoccuring characters playing the same roles, I'd probably give it more of a chance of being watchable at least than most modern comedies.
 
Werewolf said:
Whilst I've no doubt it won't be a patch on the originals, given it's got the same writer and two of the three reoccuring characters playing the same roles, I'd probably give it more of a chance of being watchable at least than most modern comedies.
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Only because most current comedies are ****. And the important bit is the "two out of three". Because the one missing is the only one which actually matters.
 
Christ, the sitcom really is dead!...It is way before my time, but it seems to me that Open All Hours was pretty dated even when it was released tbh. I enjoy quite a few comedies from around that time, but this was pretty much the one that I really don't find funny in the least.
 
If they really want to raise a classic, then they should pay John Cleese whatever he wants for a FT special, or even better, i'm sure the Blackadder cast are still more than capable.
 
Pighardia said:
Christ, the sitcom really is dead!...It is way before my time, but it seems to me that Open All Hours was pretty dated even when it was released tbh. I enjoy quite a few comedies from around that time, but this was pretty much the one that I really don't find funny in the least.
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Get out
 
robfosters said:
I wonder if making fun of a speech disorder would be viewed as un-PC nowadays? Everything else is.
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The thing is, Ronnie never made fun of a speech disorder back in the 70s, and apparently people (maybe not all) didn't see it as so, either.

In fact someone said to Ronnie how pleased he was with the way Ronnie handled it - it wasn't funny because Arkwright had a stutter. It was funny because Arkwright was funny. He just happened to have a stutter.

It's been ages since I've laughed at something that wasn't made before the mid 90s.
 
Jono said:
The thing is, Ronnie never made fun of a speech disorder back in the 70s, and apparently people (maybe not all) didn't see it as so, either.

In fact someone said to Ronnie how pleased he was with the way Ronnie handled it - it wasn't funny because Arkwright had a stutter. It was funny because Arkwright was funny. He just happened to have a stutter.

It's been ages since I've laughed at something that wasn't made before the mid 90s.
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True, it was funny when he got fed up and said something else.

"That'll be fer,fer,fer,fer,fer, oh just give us 20 pence." :D
 
Wont be the same without ronnie like but id still like to watch it mainly cos theres nowt else to watch these days and its david jason.
 
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