Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
15-11-2015, 19:29
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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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15-11-2015, 21:08
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
Will never work. Why do they keep doing reboots of these shows? Never be the same as the original.
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16-11-2015, 09:14
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
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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16-11-2015, 18:15
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
Actually l thought Still Open All Hours was pretty good personally but that's only my humble opinion Sir.
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25-02-2018, 15:44
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
The BBC have cancelled the reboot after just one series.
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
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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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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
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The BBC have cancelled the reboot after just one series.
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it was utter garbage so no surpise
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25-02-2018, 21:36
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
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.
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25-02-2018, 23:08
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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.
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
They kept this quiet i didnt even know they had rebooted the series.
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
Anybody for a Are You Being Served reboot.
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
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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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26-02-2018, 09:42
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
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The BBC have cancelled the reboot after just one series.
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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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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
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They are probably afraid that anything actually funny is probably going to be labelled "offensive" by someone.
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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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26-02-2018, 13:30
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Re: Porridge to be revived by the BBC?
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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 enjoyed it, too.
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