Amazing, because when things are repeated we tend to think people remain that age forever.
Well I am the same with people from Corrie. I cant believe both Bill Roache and Barbara Knox are in their 70s and Betty Driver is 87. I keep thinking of them as younger!
Having said that, I notice from the cast list that the actor playing Herr Flick changed for the final season - so is the original Herr Flick actor (another "true regular", surely?) also deceased?
The "original" Herr Flick is still alive and well, as you can see from zis Gestapo website Richard Gibson
Susan Hodge, who played Mimi, was on Central News last year when she got married at a church in Lincs (all goes on in the East Midlands)
Amazing, because when things are repeated we tend to think people remain that age forever.
Well I am the same with people from Corrie. I cant believe both Bill Roache and Barbara Knox are in their 70s and Betty Driver is 87. I keep thinking of them as younger!
Thought I'd post this here...
I didn't realise Clive Swift and Judy Cornwell were both in the Victorian drama Cribb together. Its currently replaying on ITV3. That must be going back to the mid-eighties.
Is David Croft writing it? That's its only chance of working in my opinion.
That said, I'm not holding my breath. I can honestly say that the BBC's attempts at comedy during the past decade or so have been absolutely dire, with very few exceptions.
bit OT - but if you likeKeeping up appearances and rememebr Kitty from Victoria wood you have to try and listen to Ladies of letters.
BBC Radio 4 series starring Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. Fantascic peice of radio - well worth buying the CD's
Without looking it up, I think at least three different actors played LeClerc - Jack Haig (who died during the run), Robin Parkinson and Derek Royle.
Rather annoyingly, seeing as part of the delight of the series was its dense and increasingly convoluted ongoing plot, BBC One's Sunday lunchtime repeats seem to be totally random, for instance recently jumping from the penultimate series one week to the third or fourth the next. As Captain Bertorelli would say, "Whata mistake-a to make-a".
Perhaps this show is more along the lines of the recent Swap Shop reunion - i.e 'It's back but not really, it's just alot of people talking about it in a themed studio set' ?
Well here's an interesting article from Broadcast:
BBC looks to past for comedy idea
Jessica Rogers
8:00am
BBC1 comedy bosses are harking back to classic shows such as 'Allo 'Allo! and Are You Being Served? to find inspiration for "silly" ensemble comedies.
BBC head of comedy Jon Plowman and creative head of mainstream comedy Michael Jacob have written to writers asking them to come up with ideas for a "big, hilarious comedy" for the channel.
A brainstorming session was held at Television Centre last month, where ideas were thrashed out among some of the industry's leading comedy writers.
Jacob said the aim was to fill a gap that the comedy team had identified in the channel's output.
He said: "We think there is potential next year for an ensemble show for BBC1 in the spirit of shows of the past like Dad's Army. Something with a big cast and quite silly humour – there isn't really a recent example of BBC1 doing a show like that."
He added: "The meeting threw up a few ideas and the writers have now gone away to develop them further. We will wait and see which ones work out.
"We want to see if there is anything that can be learned from the past, rather than remaking shows that were a hit years ago."
The ideas that are generated could then be turned into in-house BBC productions. A previous brainstorming session resulted in the commissioning of BBC2 sci-fi comedy Hyperdrive, which is currently in production on a second series.
The Broadcast Comedy Conference – in association with Paramount Comedy – is being held on Friday 23 March at the Soho Theatre.
"We want to see if there is anything that can be learned from the past, rather than remaking shows that were a hit years ago."
The ideas that are generated could then be turned into in-house BBC productions. A previous brainstorming session resulted in the commissioning of BBC2 sci-fi comedy Hyperdrive, which is currently in production on a second series.
Well, that first bit seems like they've at last learnt their lesson, even if they do 'Allo 'Allo again. Then again, Hyperdrive wasn't all that great was it?
"We want to see if there is anything that can be learned from the past, rather than remaking shows that were a hit years ago."
The ideas that are generated could then be turned into in-house BBC productions. A previous brainstorming session resulted in the commissioning of BBC2 sci-fi comedy Hyperdrive, which is currently in production on a second series.
Well, that first bit seems like they've at last learnt their lesson, even if they do 'Allo 'Allo again. Then again, Hyperdrive wasn't all that great was it?
Yes I wouldn't be using Hyperdrive as an example of a funny successful sitcom.