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This is surely coming up in early Autumn, as it was initially promised for the Summer, so thought I would start a thread seeing as...
Another one off revival has been added to what looks to be a promising lineup:
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-07-05/goodnight-sweetheart-is-coming-back-with-nicholas-lyndhurst-returning-to-star
This means the following one off specials are now confirmed:
Are You Being Served?
Goodnight Sweetheart
Keeping Up Appearances (Young Hyacinth)
Porridge
Up Pompeii
Mrs Brown’s Boys (Live Episode)
There are also episodes of Steptoe & Son, Hancock's Half Hour and Til Death Us Do Part being recreated as the original shows are missing, presumed wiped, along with a specially commissioned panel show, "We Love Sitcom"
BBC Two will air a series of five brand new sitcom pilots under the "New On Two" banner, and BBC Four has a documentary marking 60 years of the sitcom.
Another one off revival has been added to what looks to be a promising lineup:
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-07-05/goodnight-sweetheart-is-coming-back-with-nicholas-lyndhurst-returning-to-star
Quote:
Goodnight Sweetheart is coming back with Nicholas Lyndhurst returning to star
The actor will reprise his role as time travelling lothario Gary Sparrow in a special episode of the classic 90s sitcom
Talk about a blast from the past! Goodnight Sweetheart, the much-loved 1990’s British sitcom which ran for six series on BBC1, is returning with Nicolas Lyndhurst reprising his role as time travelling romeo Gary Sparrow.
A one-off special episode is being made as part of the BBC’s landmark sitcom season, 17 years after the show ended.
Lyndhurst's Gary Sparrow is a TV repairman who finds himself leading an extraordinary double life as he time travels between present-day and the Second World War. In the 1990s he is married to ambitious Yvonne but in the war-torn capital he strikes up a passion for a second woman, Phoebe.
Now the original creators, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (Birds of a Feather, The New Statesman), have written a brand new script which sees Sparrow face the consequences of his time travel and go somewhere he’s never been before, as Goodnight Sweetheart is about to be catapulted into the 21st century.
The show will be part of the BBC’s landmark sitcom season celebrating the heritage and legacy of BBC comedy over the past 60 years.
The season, which runs in the autumn, will revisit some of Britain’s iconic comedies including Are You Being Served? and Porridge and will also feature Young Hyacinth, a prequel to Keeping Up Appearances.
Marks and Gran, creators and writers of Goodnight Sweetheart, said: “Gary has been trying for the last 17 years to find a way back to the present. Now he’s found one, and he’s asked us to turn it into a TV show, featuring much-loved old Goodnight Sweetheart friends and one or two new ones.”
Shane Allen, Controller of BBC Comedy Commissioning added: “The whole sitcom season is geared towards giving comedy royalty their due recognition and in Goodnight Sweetheart we have heavy-weight writing and performing talents reunited in this hugely popular and fondly remembered show. The conceptual update is sublime and it was heart-skipping stuff to read – it’s an absolute belter.”
Jon Rolph, Executive Producer of Goodnight Sweetheart said: “I’ve long been keen to catch up with the life and various times of Gary Sparrow, so it’s an absolute delight to see Goodnight Sweetheart take its place in the landmark sitcom season”.
The actor will reprise his role as time travelling lothario Gary Sparrow in a special episode of the classic 90s sitcom
Talk about a blast from the past! Goodnight Sweetheart, the much-loved 1990’s British sitcom which ran for six series on BBC1, is returning with Nicolas Lyndhurst reprising his role as time travelling romeo Gary Sparrow.
A one-off special episode is being made as part of the BBC’s landmark sitcom season, 17 years after the show ended.
Lyndhurst's Gary Sparrow is a TV repairman who finds himself leading an extraordinary double life as he time travels between present-day and the Second World War. In the 1990s he is married to ambitious Yvonne but in the war-torn capital he strikes up a passion for a second woman, Phoebe.
Now the original creators, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (Birds of a Feather, The New Statesman), have written a brand new script which sees Sparrow face the consequences of his time travel and go somewhere he’s never been before, as Goodnight Sweetheart is about to be catapulted into the 21st century.
The show will be part of the BBC’s landmark sitcom season celebrating the heritage and legacy of BBC comedy over the past 60 years.
The season, which runs in the autumn, will revisit some of Britain’s iconic comedies including Are You Being Served? and Porridge and will also feature Young Hyacinth, a prequel to Keeping Up Appearances.
Marks and Gran, creators and writers of Goodnight Sweetheart, said: “Gary has been trying for the last 17 years to find a way back to the present. Now he’s found one, and he’s asked us to turn it into a TV show, featuring much-loved old Goodnight Sweetheart friends and one or two new ones.”
Shane Allen, Controller of BBC Comedy Commissioning added: “The whole sitcom season is geared towards giving comedy royalty their due recognition and in Goodnight Sweetheart we have heavy-weight writing and performing talents reunited in this hugely popular and fondly remembered show. The conceptual update is sublime and it was heart-skipping stuff to read – it’s an absolute belter.”
Jon Rolph, Executive Producer of Goodnight Sweetheart said: “I’ve long been keen to catch up with the life and various times of Gary Sparrow, so it’s an absolute delight to see Goodnight Sweetheart take its place in the landmark sitcom season”.
This means the following one off specials are now confirmed:
Are You Being Served?
Goodnight Sweetheart
Keeping Up Appearances (Young Hyacinth)
Porridge
Up Pompeii
Mrs Brown’s Boys (Live Episode)
There are also episodes of Steptoe & Son, Hancock's Half Hour and Til Death Us Do Part being recreated as the original shows are missing, presumed wiped, along with a specially commissioned panel show, "We Love Sitcom"
BBC Two will air a series of five brand new sitcom pilots under the "New On Two" banner, and BBC Four has a documentary marking 60 years of the sitcom.
