So true i think some of them are too clever by half.

I think there is space in our over inflated channel numbers for quaint comedies like this still.

It may not appeal to younger viewers just as the plethora of quiz/panel type shows hold no value for me. Shows like this do though.

PS I wish they would give Roy Chubby Brown his own TV series.

I hope not. I once had to suffer a late night road trip as a passenger across northern France with one of his tapes on permanent repeat.

I would have liked that i have loads of his stuff and am going to see him live in the new year.

I also like contemporary comedians though such as Dave Gorman who i have a ticket for in december 2014..

Rings a bell from my own years doing a degree!

You said that many comedians today have been to university to study being funny. Which university in particular offers this course and which comedians have attended such courses?

Isn't that the point though? We all say as teenagers that we will never be like our parents but inevitably grow up to be just like them.

I totally agree. Comedy was bloody brilliant until those Tory swines went and allowed the polytechnics to get university status. Now any old Joe can get a comedy degree, even those who are not naturally funny.

I remember saying back in 92 that it would spell the end of comedy and how right I was.

Granville isn't Arkwright's son!!

I'm not sure if the FM meant it this way, but he was as good as. Granville was raised by Arkwright and grew up being taught how to run the shop 'the Arkwright way'. It's not huge leap to believe that as much as Granville may have hated it, he'd inevitably run it the exact same way.

Given the fact Granville (nor anybody else) knew who his Dad was wouldn't Granville's surname be Arkwright as his Mum's surname/maiden name would have been used

Indeed. Especially those with the "swinging" decade in their username for some unknown reason. You WILL like it....or else!

I was born in the 50's and would take Mrs Brown's Boys over Still Open all Hours any day. However that is just MY opinion and I wouldn't dream of trying to impose it on anyone else.

Lots try to do so though Mrs Browns boys in not my cup of tea however The Inbetweeners were.

You're getting confused by the fact that a lot of comedians today have been to university. No one goes to university specifically to learn to be funny, though.

I can not or ever will understand what is even remotely funny about Mrs Browns or The Inbetweeners but if people find them funny then good for them I guess I'd take Still Open All Hours any day of the week

I wonder if it will be included in a updated box set of Open All Hours my box set got damaged so if so I'll wait

It'll come as no surprise to anyone that a 6-episode series has been ordered

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2014/01/bbc-...episode-order/

Call me cynical if you like but I think a series was planned right from the start

Frankly, I think the "deal" offered to SOAH is the same offered to BOAF, that of a (xmas?) special and if it takes off then a series. If the Xmas ep had bombed this announcement would never have been made.

As for BOAF, well done on their ratings, and I hope SOAH has similar fortune.

I hope it does well too

Well, considering it's only five weeks to the day since the one-off was screened..... That's a blooming quick decision by BBC standards.

The decision is a no-brainer. A massive audience at Christmas plus a sizable positive response. The series will rate a few million lower but should still do good business. And six episodes means episodes don't have to be as crowded as the one-off was.

A from me at the commission.

It'll be interesting whereabouts in the schedule they place this.

a new series is good news. I didn't think much of the one-off. No story, just a load of old characters coming in the shop.

Looking forward to the 6 episodes

As someone said, they were probably planned all along. They just wanted to test the waters with a one off before going all the way for a series first.

I hope the BBC have realistic expectations for it, for as much as I love OAH and liked SOAH, I think a six ep series is pushing it and will end up getting panned by the end. Isn't there a saying 'Nostalgia's better left in the past' or something? As a one-off, it was sweet and charming and you could overlook its 'deficiencies' - Leroy being a ladies man and an innocent(?), Mrs Featherstone cracking onto Granville, the pointlessness of Nurse Gladys without Arkwright - on the grounds that it didn't have time to go into great depth, so you just went along with it. Over the course of a series, those deficiencies will be writ large. The ratings are possibly mis-leading. I'm sure many people watched it purely as a nostalgia trip to Ronnie Barker, expecting it to be the one-off it was described as. Remember the excitement of a resurrected Yes, Prime Minister? Remember turning off after episode one because it was crap? I fear this may go the same way. I don't blame anyone involved for signing up to it. I just think it doesn't have the legs for a series.

I'm paraphrasing here but I thought the Christmas special was ok, but I wonder if there is enough "meat" in it for a full series?

Well I always thought it was great Sunday evening viewing so if they ran it to coincide with the Strictly results show toward the end of the year I think it would sit nicely in the 6.45-7.15pm slot on Sundays.

The third series begins tonight at 8:30pm.

Absolutely awful it's trying to turn into Last of the Summer Wine