Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
 

Classic Ronnie Barker prison comedy Porridge “to be revived” by the BBC.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-...ved-by-the-bbc

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Will never work. Why do they keep doing reboots of these shows? Never be the same as the original.

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Is nothing sacred ? Make something new with new writers.

You'd have thought they'd learned with the Open All Hours revival, mind you the original of that was rubbish.

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Actually l thought Still Open All Hours was pretty good personally but that's only my humble opinion Sir.

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The BBC have cancelled the reboot after just one series.

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Not surprised as it was not a patch on the original series.

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it was utter garbage so no surpise

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They just don't seem able to do sit coms any longer. Dad's Army, Steptoe, Porridge, Fawlty Towers - repeats of those are far better than anything made now. Maybe they were of their time, can never be replicated, and we shouldn't try.
See John Cleese is doing a new sitcom, it's crap, he knows it is, but his ex wives have stitched him up so he needs the money... Fair enough I guess.

Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
 

They are probably afraid that anything actually funny is probably going to be labelled "offensive" by someone. :erm:

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They kept this quiet i didnt even know they had rebooted the series.

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Anybody for a Are You Being Served reboot.;)

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Didn't they try a pilot reboot ? It was appalling, very much like the original in fact ... Only so many jokes you can do about Mrs Slocombe's pussy !

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Shame. I enjoyed it..and frankly there is no other present sitcom that I would watch anyway. The sitcom seems to have died.

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I agree, it is getting ridiculous. Forget trying to be funny, nobody can make a statement about anything these days without one person out of thousands being an absolute **** and twisting some phrase or meaning and saying they are offended by it.

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I enjoyed it, too.