Yes Prime Minister to return!

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Looks like UKTV Gold are going to be making a new Yes Prime Minister series:

http://uktv.co.uk/network/item/aid/651673

Hmm, not sure how I feel about this. The original is my favourite television series of all time, so I am unsure whether this is a good idea or not.

Is this a good idea? In the immortal words of Sir Humphrey: "yes, and no".

Since it is being written by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay, it might not be a complete disaster.

Then again, as has been pointed out in other places, the original is still so relevant that is doesn't need updating, just repeating.
 
I hope this is as good as the originals. Excellent viewing and reading too.

Sir Humphrey: "So I gather, you denied that Mr. Halifax's phone had been bugged?"
Jim Hacker: "Well obviously, it was the one question today to which I could give a clear, simple, straightforward, honest answer."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes, unfortunately although the answer was indeed clear, simple and straightforward, there is some difficulty in justifiably assigning to it the fourth of the epithets you applied to the statement, inasmuch as the precise correlation between the information you communicated and the facts insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated is such as to cause epistemological problems of sufficient magnitude to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear."
Jim Hacker: "Epistemological? What are you talking about?"
Sir Humphrey: "You told a lie."
Jim Hacker: "A lie??"
Sir Humphrey: "A lie."
Jim Hacker: "What do you mean a lie?"
Sir Humphrey: "I mean you ... lied. Yes I know, this is a difficult concept to get across to a politician. You ..... ah yes, you did not tell the truth."
 
Hehe, could quote the series all day :)

Bernard: "My God!"
Sir Humphrey: "No Bernard, it just your boss"

Hacker: "And another thing Bernard, how did Humphrey know where I was?"
Bernard: "God moves in mysterious ways?"
Hacker: "let get one thing straight, Humphery is not God!"
Bernard: "you want to tell him or shall I?"

If anything, the books are even better, although that is taking nothing away from the brilliant acting of the main three.
 
I thought that was the modern day remake.

Watch out for VEEP, which is the american version of The Thick of It. But it's written by our guys so it should be the same as the movie
 
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They can never touch the originals. I still watch them. Timeless, unbeatable satire.

Humphrey: 'British democracy recognises that you need a system to protect the important things of life, and keep them out of the hands of the barbarians. Things like the opera, Radio Three, the countryside, the law, the universities ... both of them.'
 
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Freakbro said:
So good you had to quote it twice? :p
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Damn straight! :p

But yea, the original is still as good today as it was then and I struggle to believe a modern remake will improve on it.
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Agreed. I've seen clips from the stage version and it's rubbish.
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Well, it is the same two writers that did the original, so there is some hope.

Although I think that perhaps they should have staged it differently, since for me Paul Eddington will always be Jim Hacker, Nigel Hawthorne is Sir Humphrey Appleby and Derek Fowlds personifies Bernard Woolley.

And Evangelion, that quote is funny and interesting. I am wondering if you can get away with that much snobishness these days. I hope so, otherwise Sir Humphrey is going to be a boring character.

And on that note:

"Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: What about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big ****."

:)
 
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