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Bang on !



Anyone who watches Dave enough in the UK will know there's a shitload of these ad's and anyone who remembers BBC comedy in the 80's or early 90's will spot Rik Mayall a mile off, good to see him doing shit after he stopped working cos he dropped a bike on his head like 15 years ago ?, also seen he's doing a new series with Ade Edmondson called Hooligan Island, revolving around the bottom series, said it wont be long before it's on the BBC so *dances neked*, proper ledge

seremtan wrote:

Maybe some Lord Flashheart instead ? :/



Woof Woof !

Awesome. We used to watch stuff like Bottom and The Young Ones and Blackadder of course. Great to see those familiar faces coming back. This reminds me, I still have to find the Olympics special from Absolutely Fabulous somewhere. Heard about it after it was aired.

Then this should be straight up your street, starts 4th October



And just tried to dig up the Ab Fab special but must have got taken down from iPlayer, should be easy enough to find, I love Patsy Stone though, only women I think i'd marry

Red Dwarf? Really? That's just excellent

remember that one red dwarf comeback, where they got out of the show and into the real world?
that was beyond terrible.

MKJ wrote:remember that one red dwarf comeback, where they got out of the show and into the real world?
that was beyond terrible.

I will say approach with caution because of that :/, didn't know they officially labelled it series 9 as it was meant to be a 'spin off' series and never really understood why the cast signed up on such a pathetic budget (Starbug as a smart car wtf ?, that come out of Doug Naylor's own pocket money), but they got a budget for a full series so could say it was a good call ?. They have also lost both Hollies according to twitter which is also a shame but as you can see from the advert theyve ditched plastering everything in CG shit and started using models again, also filming in front of a live audience (again) who are giving some pretty decent reviews (from people that disliked RD IX n all) and have the funding for a complete series now so I reckon it'll be decent, or has the best chance that it's ever gonna get and there's talk of RD XI already

People always blame the shows demise (and series 9) on Rob Grant leaving which is bull imo, series 7 and 8 were worth just as much as earlier eps I reckon and the pair apparently never communicated from series 4 onwards anyway

Bombadier & Hooligans Island = awesomeness
New Red Dwarf = very sceptical

FFS you're celebrating an advert ...

Red Dwarf X: So they still haven't got the duo of writers back together, then? That makes me skeptical of it being good. Performing in front of a live audience = good. It looks like they are using CGI to me; you realise CGI looks like models now? If they really want they can now scan a model and then make it CGI. That's what Pixar do, but that's before colouring, I think. The car in The Incredibles looks better than a model actually, even more real.

celebrating

Ryoki wrote:celebrating

That was a typo, TYVM...

You're welcome.

MKJ wrote:remember that one red dwarf comeback, where they got out of the show and into the real world?
that was beyond terrible.

That was indeed quite horrible. Embarrassing to watch.
So disappointing on every level.

Let us keep the quality memories and do not resuscitate

DTS wrote:FFS you're celebrating an advert ...

Red Dwarf X: So they still haven't got the duo of writers back together, then? That makes me skeptical of it being good. Performing in front of a live audience = good. It looks like they are using CGI to me; you realise CGI looks like models now? If they really want they can now scan a model and then make it CGI. That's what Pixar do, but that's before colouring, I think. The car in The Incredibles looks better than a model actually, even more real.

Celebration time no ? , the return of all these series, Ruddy Hell it's Harry and Paul was the last time I was this excited . They're definitely using a model, have no idea weather it's scanned in or not and using some CG too, just meant that every scene that used models before was converted to CG, or made CG, which I hated cos it looked like shit when compared to the model work they done, even at the time (and it was never really very good, they were never meant compete with blockbuster movies like, it was just part of the charm).



And if you didn't like series 7 or 8 then you prolly wont like this, I wouldn't put series 9 as a yard stick for series 10 though, they have their own sets n all, which was another drawback Doug Naylor had to deal with in series 9 and said he was pretty much stuck with what he could do in the script when he had to use sets like Coronation Street (as a favour lol). It's the reviews that are keeping my hopes up anyway, still very skeptical like, but this series is making the noises that series 9 wasn't.

It never will be a return to the earlier series (1-3) n all, the best we can hope for is the level of quality that series 4 onwards had

oh look another franchise reboot

I wouldn't mind seeing Brittas Empire remade too

i wouldn't mind if people would come up with some new ideas for a change instead of milking the fat, syrup-bloated cash cow of nostalgia for every last drop

IT Crowd, QI, Mitchell and Webb, Peep Show, Black Books, Mock the Week, Russell Howards good news, Shameless, Celeb Juice, Benidorm even Gavin and Stacy or Harry Hill if that's what your into were all within the last 5 years ?, go back a little further you can drag up shit like Little Britain n all and League of Gentlemen, the Office, Bo Selecta etc, which is more than the 90s or 80s ever gave us.

Nowt wrong with returning to your roots if done properly, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse managed it with little drama, along with Only Fools and Horses and Shooting Stars, with them and RD IX or X, I cant think of many series that has been dragged up for a remake or been called back ?, the majority of those that have were considered successes or 'specials'

tbh i was thinking outside just the small box of british sitcoms. also, some of those examples may not be remakes, but they sure as fuck ain't original:

mock the week = have i got news for you for people under 40
mitchell & webb = standard sketch show, nothing ground-breaking (though they were funny at times)
black books = cultish but short on funny, and not the best use of bill bailey
russell howard = wanky, laddish stand-up, not a patch on stewart lee

QI on the other hand genuinely stands out, both for its premise, and the fact that it doesn't assume the viewer is a lobotomised ASBO-goblin with the attention span of an chav in a JJB Sports outlet

Only good sitcom to be made for ages was that one set in a lab with scientists played by stand-up comedians, and that was a while back now.

(In the first episode, the main character was wearing a pink lab coat cause it got mixed up in the wash. Then after that in the other episodes it was white.)

seremtan wrote:tbh i was thinking outside just the small box of british sitcoms. also, some of those examples may not be remakes, but they sure as fuck ain't original:

mock the week = have i got news for you for people under 40
mitchell & webb = standard sketch show, nothing ground-breaking (though they were funny at times)
black books = cultish but short on funny, and not the best use of bill bailey
russell howard = wanky, laddish stand-up, not a patch on stewart lee

QI on the other hand genuinely stands out, both for its premise, and the fact that it doesn't assume the viewer is a lobotomised ASBO-goblin with the attention span of an chav in a JJB Sports outlet

In that case Ab Fab was just a Brit version of Friends, Harry Enfield was just another sketch show, Shooting Stars was just another gameshow, Bottom was just Young One's with different ego's (or insert any show that used slapstick) and Red Dwarf was a classic example of a comedy where you get 2 people that hate each other then throw them in a room.

There are very, very few comedies that you can consider genuinely unique and break the mould imo, Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Ronnie Corbett which all pretty much laid the foundation of what you see today, when you said 'new ideas' obv I thought you meant new shows, asking for a comedian to re-write Brit comedy like those 3 did though (and there are more) would be like waiting for the return of the messiah ?

Dont have to be Brit specific either, just if I started getting yank comedies these posts would be getting a lot bigger, Simpsons was another ground breaker if you wanna mention from outside the UK n all but I actually prefer Futurama, which shows you what doing the same shit in a different setting can do.

If you want to start going off-topic:
Sealab 2021 > Futurama > American Dad > Family Guy > The Simpsons

The Simpsons ate itself a long time ago and is now worse than The Flintstones which it was inspired by.

Sealab 2021 lost its touch, pretty much, with the death of the voice actor who played Captain Murphy (he was old).

Having seen some earlier episodes of American Dad I know that it has improved a lot since its early days, it rivals Futurama for humour now (partly cause Futurama has become dated), so if you wrote it off before I recommend you watch some more recent episodes.

American Dad has so eclipsed Family Guy, that Family Guy is now a poor-man's American Dad.

Still planning to watch some more Sealab 2021 some day, only seen a few of the most popular episodes (thanks to filesharing, which is how I even know about the show, found it by chance). The thing with a lot of Sealab 2021 was it featured the latest in pop culture a lot, so recent episodes would be the ones to watch except the best ones featured Captain Murphy, who is now gone.

That's pretty much what I meant and I agree with what you've said despite not having seen Sealab 2021 . I havn't watched Simpsons in years or Family Guy, catch American Dad and Futurama pretty frequently though and despite Simpsons being based on Flintstones I wouldnt say it's copied it ?, id say it was pretty unique, but I havnt watched Flintstones since I was a sprog and I'm not as clued up about Yank comedies as I am with Brit