On 19 Mar, 18:00, hulahoop <sweeney...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > hulahoop <sweeney...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Mar 19, 11:54 am, "solar =A0penguin"
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> > >>>> There's no such person. It's just Graeme Garden in disguise!
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> > >>> Must you make light of the late Arthur of 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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> > >> And yet another shared cultural reference is wasted on you!
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> > >> For such a devoted anglophile you really do know very little about
> > >> classic British comedy, don't you?
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> > > Was that BBC Goodies or ITV Goodies?
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> They never quite managed to replicate the sophistication of the BBC
> series when they transferred to ITV did they? =A0 Mind you I also felt
> that Morecambe and Wise were better on BBC than on ITV. =A0 =A0And while
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> succeed in producing the number of good comedies that the BBC did?
In fairness, who has? I can think of only two British sitcoms worth
watching that were not made by the BBC: Drop the Dead Donkey and Black
Books, both from Channel 4. And while the BBC has produced a few gems
over the years, it simply produces more comedy full stop than anyone
else. It's had goodness knows how many turkeys down the ages for every
Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army or Reggie Perrin. Look at the pair who did
'Allo, 'Allo - everything else they ever produced was unremittingly
diabolical (It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Are You Being Served? etc.). One
solid sitcom out of goodness knows how many efforts is pretty much par
for the course. And an awful lot of the best sitcoms the BBC have
produced came from a small numberr of writers on the BBC payroll.
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> fact the only decent ITV comedy I recall was Rising Damp,
So that's a total of no good ITV comedies, then.
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Not sitcoms, but then this is a symptom of the essential fact that ITV
does everything worse than everybody else, I think. However, I did
discover recently that TV Burp is on ITV, and that can sometimes be
pretty good. Also saw something called The Sketch Show when it reached
Australia, which had apparently first screened on ITV, and that had
its moments too.
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