The Creeping Spleen
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And tickets for the first night of the show sold out within five minutes.
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Great News,lets hope they do make a few new series, it was a great show and deserves more
Philosopher Clegg
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I've felt for some time that it would come back, it was just a matter of time for Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill to sort out their differences, which for the most part seemed to be about the business side of things. Neither has been able to top Still Game since it originally ended in 2007. Kiernan had a couple of short lived sitcoms, Dear Green Place and Happy Hollidays, both of which can be found on YouTube. They had their moments but neither was as good as Still Game. Hemphill has largely been absent from TV screens.
Still Game is basically their gravy train. One of the best comedies to come out of Scotland. The fact that all the cast are young, but playing older people means that the six years it has been away doesn't mean anything in terms of time missed. Hemphill said at the reunion interview that they could still be doing this in 20 years time and all they would need is less makeup. They will simply start again from where they left off. A little like The Simpsons their characters will never age much from where they are in the series, around the 70 mark.
Interesting that the BBC currently have a number of comedies running where younger comedy actors play older characters, Count Arthur Strong and Citizen Khan have followed on from Still Game.
Adanor
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Not really sure if this is a new show, but I enjoy watching DCI Banks which is shot (I believe) in and around Leeds. Which brings to mind that in addition to DCI Banks, many shows, at least those shown on PBS in the States, are set and filmed in Yorkshire: LOTSW (of course), All Creatures Great and Small, DL and Pascoe, and Last Tango in Halifax to name a few.
I started off with 'Where the Heart is', 'Heartbeat', 'The Royal', but then found a complete page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_shows_set_in_Yorkshire
And you have to go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_shows_set_in_South_Yorkshire
to find 'Open All Hours'
Philosopher Clegg
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I've been watching a BBC comedy drama series called Ambassadors with David Mitchell and Robert Webb. I got quite a surprise when in episode 2 towards the end the President of the fictitious country Tazbekistan is in a private meeting with a British royal and tells him that his favorite British TV series is LOTSW. He then gets out his DVD collection and they watch an episode together while discussing human rights! The episode they are watching is The Pony Set.
It's on IPlayer, but only for another day or so.
The scene can be found in episode 2 at about 53.30 minutes (don't think it's available outside of UK though). Only lasts a minute though.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jd3vx
It's on IPlayer, but only for another day or so.
The scene can be found in episode 2 at about 53.30 minutes (don't think it's available outside of UK though). Only lasts a minute though.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jd3vx
Thanks for that,great comment there,why did they end the show,reply,BBC is full of lefties
Philosopher Clegg
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To be fair, it is a BBC satire, so they are having a go at themselves by presenting a view that critics would make of them. The irony is if it really was as their critics say, then a scene like that would never get past the "leftie" censors.
Philosopher Clegg
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I haven't watched this, but as there is a LOTSW connection others may be interested. On ITV today and is available via the itvplayer.
Lost for Words with Thora Hird and Keith Clifford in a supporting role.
https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/lost-for-words
Lost for Words with Thora Hird and Keith Clifford in a supporting role.
https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/lost-for-words
Philosopher Clegg
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Not a TV show, but on the radio, The Secret World is an impressions show and occasionally Peter Sallis appears. Well, someone doing his voice. I think it's done in good spirit and it always presents Sallis as down to earth getting involved in unlikely, confusing situations. This episode he does a backing track telling Summer Wine anecdotes for Lady Gaga when he's mistaken for a rapper, Peter Gunz.
Can be heard at 58 seconds, then at about 10 mins, then 21.30.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03mj1yd/The_Secret_World_Series_4_Episode_6/
Can be heard at 58 seconds, then at about 10 mins, then 21.30.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03mj1yd/The_Secret_World_Series_4_Episode_6/
Philosopher Clegg
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I've found another Summer Wine moment. I've been watching the new Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith series Inside No 9, a dark dramatic and at times horror comedy, which is what you would expect from the writing team of The League of Gentlemen.
Not to everyone's liking I know, but this series had twists in every episode and was very well done if you like what they do. Anyway, the final episode, The Harrowing, is perhaps the most horror based and dark of them all. It had elements of Carry on Screaming in it in the way it and the characters looked, but at around 10 minutes I got a surprise. The schoolgirl character picks up an old copy of the Radio Times and in it an early episode of LOTSW is circled. Totally out of place and I can't help but wonder why Pemberton and Shearsmith decided to put it in. Strange, if only to see an old copy of the Radio Times and short synopsis of a very old LOTSW from the Blamire era.
It can be found at around 10 minutes in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03y7n5p/Inside_No_9_The_Harrowing/
Not to everyone's liking I know, but this series had twists in every episode and was very well done if you like what they do. Anyway, the final episode, The Harrowing, is perhaps the most horror based and dark of them all. It had elements of Carry on Screaming in it in the way it and the characters looked, but at around 10 minutes I got a surprise. The schoolgirl character picks up an old copy of the Radio Times and in it an early episode of LOTSW is circled. Totally out of place and I can't help but wonder why Pemberton and Shearsmith decided to put it in. Strange, if only to see an old copy of the Radio Times and short synopsis of a very old LOTSW from the Blamire era.
It can be found at around 10 minutes in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03y7n5p/Inside_No_9_The_Harrowing/
brendalovescompo
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Very cool
, thanks for the links PC, I plan on checking it out this week. Have a good week!
, thanks for the links PC, I plan on checking it out this week. Have a good week!
Philosopher Clegg
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Very cool
If you are based in the US you might not be able to view those links as I don't think all of the BBC content is available to view on the iPlayer outside the UK. Even for UK viewers there is usually an end date after which it is not available.
From the Inside No 9 episode the schedule from the Radio Times for that night
8.30 (couldn't read this one).
9.00 Nine O'Clock news
9.25 Last of the Summer Wine - (the episode is Short back and Palais Glide. Doesn't say that but it says New Comedy Series and it's the one where Compo loses his key).
9.55 Sunday in New York - film
11.35 Late Night News
11.40 The Lord Mayors Banquet
I can just make out on BBC2 an episode of Alias Smith and Jones by the look of it.
Philosopher Clegg
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Here's a screenshot from the Inside No 9 episode.
