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  • #3476
    hummingbird
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    I can’t decide whether to watch Reggie Perrin tonight, for fear that it will quite possibly be the worst thing ever in the history of … really, really bad things.

    #98013
    Carlito
    Participant

    Didn’t realise it was on… got it on now…

    hmmm… BBC1 studio audience sitcom… how passe…

    #98014
    Carlito
    Participant

    Clunes is looking a lot older and fatter than the last time I saw him in anything… which was probably Men Behaving Badly, to be fair… 11 years can do that to you (certainly done it me!)

    #98015
    Carlito
    Participant

    heard that “bleed for five days without dying” line before… maybe on MBB actually :S

    #98017
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster

    The South Park film?

    #98019
    SkyAndSun
    Participant

    It reminds me how old-fashioned canned laughter (and, by association, a live audience) feels and reinforces my view that BTE was right to lose it.

    #98020
    littlesmegger
    Participant

    Gonna watch it on iPlayer me thinks, but wasn’t aware it’d have an audience :S probably going to be a nostalgia trip rather than a revamp then.

    Last time I saw Clunes was probably in that Goodbye Mr Chips, which I must admit he was very good in.

    #98022
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    Well, that was depressingly awful.

    Nothing worse than the banshee wails of a studio audience laughing at shit. This, unlike BTE, would have benefited from the absence of a laugh-track.

    There was a great opportunity to reinvent the show as a comedy drama, but they sadly went for something very broad. There was still hope for it, but not when it’s this weak and unfunny. The original series (and, by that I mean the first six epiosdes of Leonard Rossiter’s version) is genuinely dark and interesting. This isn’t.

    I should have liked this as I like Clunes, and I think Nye’s MBB was one of the last good traditional sitcoms, but it was crap.

    #98023
    Carlito
    Participant

    > The South Park film?

    Must have been. Then again, I suppose it’s hardly original anyway, many variations over the years. Plus it seemed so shoehorned in to Perrin, and was the only gag in a completely unneccesary scene, meaning some writer was so proud of it, he concocted a scene especially to showcase this plagiarised joke.

    Oh well… I only saw about 10mins of it, so I’m not going to judge it TOO harshly just yet, but early impressions are Clunes is likeable as he usually is, but the show isn’t very good. Like I said, only saw 10 mins, don’t take my word for it!

    #98027
    hummingbird
    Participant

    I gave up after the first few minutes. That was terrible.

    #98029
    p2p_productions
    Participant

    >The South Park film?

    Yep. A Mr. Garrison line, if I recall…

    #98030
    Carlito
    Participant

    Strange to see duelling ‘lad sitcom’ leads Martin Clunes (Men Behaving Badly) and Neil Stuke (Game On) in the same scene, playing proper grown-up types. Stuke’s another guy I haven’t seen on TV in years.

    In fact, if he popped up on EastEnders that would complete the hat trick of Stuke-era Game On stars in Easties.

    #98071
    Turk Thrust
    Participant

    I quite enjoyed it and it seems that a lot of the reactions to it have been pretty positive which is unusual for a revamp.

    Certainly broader than the original but taken on its own merits it had some nice jokes and some promise for future episodes. Laughter should have been toned down though.

    #98078
    Steve Harris
    Participant

    Yes, I quite enjoyed it and I’m a huge original ‘Reggie’ fan.

    I like Clunes and this is the kind of character he plays well. It was never going to be a direct re-make and he aint no Leonard Rossister but the potential is there.

    MBB was great but very much of its time, I really enjoyed Clunes in ‘Saving Grace’ and ‘Doc Martin’ I find, is one of those comfy easy to watch kind of shows.

    This had some nice touches with links to the original, personally I think, they made a reasonable job of bringing it up to date and I found it quite funny.

    A lot of us ‘middle aged’ types will relate to this so there’s a definate audience for it..

    #98097
    thomasaevans
    Participant

    Clunes was good. The supporting cast was very weak.

    When Clunes was sarcastic, he was funny, and when he was funny, It felt like Gary’s gotten old.

    I seriously think that MBB should return, with Gary & Tony being alot older, but unbelievably imature. THAT would be better than this.

    #98098
    Turk Thrust
    Participant

    > I seriously think that MBB should return, with Gary & Tony being alot older, but unbelievably imature. THAT would be better than this.

    Caroline Quentin doesn`t want it to return and she is probably sensible. I`m not sure why it would be better as well. It would still be written by Nye but he wouldn`t have someone of David Nobbs` calibre to work with.

    #98124
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    Caroline Quentin also stopped doing Jonathan Creek, so fuck her.

    #98129
    Muzzy
    Participant

    I heard her say recently that she wouldn’t mind doing Jonathan Creek again actually. Don’t know the details around why she left originally but it’d be nice to see her back in the new special they’re prepping for next year.

    #98140
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    As long as it’s better than the shit they did for January the 1st.

    #98183
    Carlito
    Participant

    I didn’t mind that episode… in fact, it was the first Creek I’d ever seen, and I was suitably impressed enough to have watched them all in the interim.

    It was definitely too long though, and the last minute additional mystery at the end was pretty contrived.

    Then again, throughout its whole run, the show always had a lot of contrivances but you can forgive them because its almost part of its charm, but the newest episode was tiresome by the time it ended. Good idea, fine performances, but at 2 hrs just too damn long.

    #98187
    Dave
    Participant

    >As long as it?s better than the shit they did for January the 1st.

    I bet you did a shit on January the 1st as well.

    #98190
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    The first and second series (of Creek) are awesome, culminating in the 1998 Christmas special which is the show at its very best and one of my favourite pieces of television, like, ever.

    The third series was patchy with only a couple of classic episodes, the fourth very disappointing. The NY special was slightly better than Gorgon’s Wood (which would have been the last episode) but still very muddled and daft.

    #98199
    Carlito
    Participant

    I found series 4 an improvement over the fairly weak 3rd series.

    #98200
    Carlito
    Participant

    > the 1998 Christmas special which is the show at its very best

    Yeah, ‘The Black Canary’ is my favourite Creek episode for sure.

    Really enjoyed the other Christmas special, ‘Satan’s Chimney’ too. Neither of these episodes suffered from being feature length, unlike the New Year’s special.

    #98253
    Tanya Jones
    Participant

    My review.

    #98258
    pfm
    Participant

    > As long as it?s better than the shit they did for January the 1st.

    It was fucking good, you prick.

    Not as good as the Caroline Quentin-era episodes, granted. The show still has life though and the BBC should have made a series happen instead of a 90 minute special (incidentally, better running time than 2 hours FFS)

    #98346
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    >It was fucking good, you prick.

    No, it wasn’t (you twat). It was overlong and reminiscent of what Renwick was doing in Series 4. Gizmos and gadgets rather than ingenuity. Compare it to the simplistic genius of “Jack in the Box” or “Black Canary”, and it’s awful.

    And when the central mystery fails, you used to be able to rely on the comedy to redeem things. Alas, the 3D porn plotline was embarrassing and the stuff with Jonathan’s bird (wotsit from the IT Crowd) was meandering and pointless.

    #99474
    John Hoare
    Participant

    Full set of reviews from me and Tanya now online:

    http://www.noisetosignal.org/archives/tag/reggie-perrin

    #99475
    si
    Participant

    >Full set of reviews from me and Tanya now online

    They’re like the new Pip and Jane Baker.

    #99477
    John Hoare
    Participant

    We uploaded them using our megabyte modem.

    #99526
    Dave
    Participant

    I can’t think of a more aposite epithet.

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