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Originally Posted by richard1960
The one exception to that was the american version of "fawlty towers" which was so pc it made your eyes water,and the comedy had been completely written out of it you may have seen it,if not i doubt it will ever re-surface on uk tv again.LOL  |
American remakes of pretty much anything seem to miss the point and lose all the humour.
I will say that good old fashioned classic british comedy is second to none. The likes of fawlty towers (can you think of any other show that would dare to have the opening title say "flowery ****s"?), dads army, allo allo, are you being served, open all hours... you just can't beat them. But sadly I doubt we'll ever reach those heights again as most of them would be ruled completely un-pc that I doubt they'd get away with most of the comedy in them.
What seems to pass for comedy these days with things like the mighty boosh and the inbetweeners just doesn't compare, and definitely won't stand the test of time.
That's what we need though, gold in HD!
Personally I think the biggest benefit in these channels will be finally being able to watch FX in widescreen.