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When the BBC debuts a new 'comedy' series at the prime time location of 10:45pm on a Wednesday in May I should have known what to expect.
Needless to say I've not been disappointed its absolutely dire! It's that lowbrow I think the Chuckle Brothers would have turned the material down as being childish!
Needless to say I've not been disappointed its absolutely dire! It's that lowbrow I think the Chuckle Brothers would have turned the material down as being childish!
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The last time the BBC made decent comedies was during the Keeping Up Appearances/One Foot In The Grave era.
To think that the BBC used to have comedies on most days like Steptoe & Son, Dad's Army, Butterflies, Allo, Allo and who can forget Only Fools and Horses etc to name a few.
By the time it got to things like Outnumbered and My Family, comedy was wafer thin and now its non existent.
What has gone wrong at the beeb and for that matter, the other broadcasters too? ITV also used to have strong comedies like Rising Damp, On The Buses, Never The Twain etc But hey, we have celebrity chefs and programmes following people down the sewers instead. It's called progress...
There is plenty of decent relatively new BBC sitcoms, Rev, The Thick Of It, Ideal, Car Share and going back a few years Early Doors and The Smoking Room being a few examples. The BBC along with Channel 4 have always produced the best sitcoms and ITV has always been dire, I think the only series i've enjoyed on there was Rising Damp and the first couple of series of Benidorm were OK.
Sheik rattle and roll, dear oh dear.
As for "comedy", if the writers can't manage to drop in a laugh in the first minute then they've failed. This one was a turkey even before the titles came up.
I believe 'Only Fools and Horses' was a slow burner. So much so, I read it was going to be axed after the 2nd series due to poor ratings. However, in those days the BBC persevered with comedies so they got some kind of fan base and momentum. I'm not that keen on it myself, but a lot of people think it's one of the best sitcoms the BBC has made and it definitely pulled in the ratings during its later runs.
Didn't see 'Suntrap', but I agree that the trailers looked abysmal.
The rest of the show was just poor.
Being paid to go on holiday basically.
10.45 is hardly prime time! Or were you being facetious? From reading the posts here, it seems I didn't miss much.
Anyway, one viewing of the trailer was enough to convince me of the quality of the comedy and to persuade me that I need not bother the PVR with this one.
At a time when the BBC is crying out for more adventurous and distinctive programming, when various people are questioning the BBC's position and income, somehow the commissioners hand this turkey to them - words fail me.
I expected it to be as bad as described,and was pleasantly surprised to find I liked it!
Mindless,harmless tosh,certainly. But the infectious good time that Bradley Walsh and Kayvan Novak had filming it, came across ,to me.
Yes, I am probably in a vast minority here, but as someone who thought that some of
the 'highly acclaimed' comedy shows mentioned, were rubbish,I liked it.Live and let
live folks,it's just a little show that's otherwise buried in a graveyard slot in the schedules
And yes, I will be watching next week. It's mindless basic stuff, but it passes half an hour!
The only line that made me laugh.