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Just found out the BBC are making a new sitcom with Paul O'Grady and Cilla Black! Haven't they learnt anything? You just know it will be appalling! It's 2013, not 1985!
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/last thing I recall enjoying was Coupling/
Yes that was BBC early Noughties
'Outnumbered' and 'Episodes' have been recent BBC Comedy highlights (both produced by Hat trick btw)
Marks and Gran are busy boys - there is a new series of 'Birds of a Feather' on the way
Paul O'Grady is pretty awful in Holby, my mate has just filmed the Christmas/New Year Special and was cringing when I asked him about Mr O'G.
Yes that was BBC early Noughties
'Outnumbered' and 'Episodes' have been recent BBC Comedy highlights (both produced by Hat trick btw)
Marks and Gran are busy boys - there is a new series of 'Birds of a Feather' on the way
Paul O'Grady is pretty awful in Holby, my mate has just filmed the Christmas/New Year Special and was cringing when I asked him about Mr O'G.
The one major thing that the BBC seems to have forgotten is that sitcoms work best when played by professional actors (not stand-up comedians or TV presenters).
Harry H Corbett, Wilfred Brambell, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, etc all were/are extremely talented actors, so it's unsurprising that when presented with great scripts (by professional scriptwriters) they turned in some superb performances.
However there currently seems to be an obsession at the BBC with getting stand-up comedians to try to write sitcoms and then, even worse, to star in them. (I recognise that the sitcom referred to in the question above doesn't quite fall into that category but it's very much the same approach from the BBC).
The BBC has a superb scriptwriter (of both sitcoms and sketch comedy) already working for them on Radio 4. (John Finnemore). If they allowed him to write for TV, and filled the roles with professional actors, they'd almost certainly have a hit on their hands.
Harry H Corbett, Wilfred Brambell, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, etc all were/are extremely talented actors, so it's unsurprising that when presented with great scripts (by professional scriptwriters) they turned in some superb performances.
However there currently seems to be an obsession at the BBC with getting stand-up comedians to try to write sitcoms and then, even worse, to star in them. (I recognise that the sitcom referred to in the question above doesn't quite fall into that category but it's very much the same approach from the BBC).
The BBC has a superb scriptwriter (of both sitcoms and sketch comedy) already working for them on Radio 4. (John Finnemore). If they allowed him to write for TV, and filled the roles with professional actors, they'd almost certainly have a hit on their hands.
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