Having Owen as the cameraman in the outside piece was odd, as it would be very unlike his character to be completely silently for the entire recording!
I'm not sure there is much mileage in a revival - if they were to do so I think having a new "Vicar of Dibley" would be the way to go with Geraldine retiring but still being in the show and very much a presence (and nusiance) to the new Vicar.
TBH though I don't think these lockdown specials are that great - they are what they are, but feel like they're months too late.
I'm not sure there is much mileage in a revival - if they were to do so I think having a new "Vicar of Dibley" would be the way to go with Geraldine retiring but still being in the show and very much a presence (and nusiance) to the new Vicar.
I suspect Richard Curtis probably wouldn't want to do a Vicar of Dibley revival with new characters, it'd end up being unfairly compared to the original. Not to mention, how could you make it different from the original?
Was something cut from the repeat of a original episode last night? We had Geraldine and David talking and then the camera angle changed with a slight sound drop and Geraldine said "well if you're going to start doing toilet humour" or something to that affect but what David said wasn't remotely crude. It seemed like it was a hasty cut, perhaps due to being pre-watershed, but it was close to 9pm and they've had family films with swearing and violence on before 6pm and didn't cut that out.
Was something cut from the repeat of a original episode last night? We had Geraldine and David talking and then the camera angle changed with a slight sound drop and Geraldine said "well if you're going to start doing toilet humour" or something to that affect but what David said wasn't remotely crude. It seemed like it was a hasty cut, perhaps due to being pre-watershed, but it was close to 9pm and they've had family films with swearing and violence on before 6pm and didn't cut that out.
I have watched the scene you mean, and this is exactly how it aired back in 1994, so unless they cut out a bit of scene just for timing in 1994, then this episode repeat is the same as it was back in 1994.
Was something cut from the repeat of a original episode last night? We had Geraldine and David talking and then the camera angle changed with a slight sound drop and Geraldine said "well if you're going to start doing toilet humour" or something to that affect but what David said wasn't remotely crude. It seemed like it was a hasty cut, perhaps due to being pre-watershed, but it was close to 9pm and they've had family films with swearing and violence on before 6pm and didn't cut that out.
I think the crude part was implying the parakeet might poo on everyones head, very mild joke yes.
Would be nice if they continued with the reruns and showed Series 2, which often gets overlooked compared to the seasonal episodes that make up the third series.
Would also be nice for them to rerun more than one series of something - quite clear the BBC strategy is to point people to the iPlayer for the rest but there is certainly still value in a once a week fix, especially of a comedy.
Was something cut from the repeat of a original episode last night? We had Geraldine and David talking and then the camera angle changed with a slight sound drop and Geraldine said "well if you're going to start doing toilet humour" or something to that affect but what David said wasn't remotely crude. It seemed like it was a hasty cut, perhaps due to being pre-watershed, but it was close to 9pm and they've had family films with swearing and violence on before 6pm and didn't cut that out.
I think the crude part was implying the parakeet might poo on everyones head, very mild joke yes.
The joke of course being that he’s using “TOILET humour” - not that he’s actually being too crude...
The omnibus edition that went out last night ends with a joke between Hugo and the Vicar, similar to the old Alice endings, in a very accurate looking vestry set. There's also a dedication to the deceased cast members and full credits and titles (with the choral theme).
On a similar note, the DVD of series 2 has a completely different ending to the episode Celebrity Vicar - Hugo makes a dedication to Alice from the stage, whereas on screen there was a very high shot of the Vicar and Alice outside the church with some brief dubbed VO from Dawn French and Emma Chambers. I'm guessing this was a new quicker ending made as the episode was over and they then reinstated the original ending on the DVD, but I've never seen it anywhere else. Britbox has the broadcast version.
Out of interest, how does the episode Happy New Year end on the DVD of that series? The original TV version had no end credits and controversially (at least to TV forumers) ended with the Make Poverty History film.
