BBC have 'pulled out the stops' for Christmas TV

[Ifailed]

...and the best they came come up with is Mrs fucking Brown! A Les Dawson drag act from the 70s - it wasn't funny then and it still isn't now.
Surely they could have done better?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55042114

[Caelano]

Yes @Caelano but the point is, this is hardly pulling out all the stops, is it? bellinisurge I agree with you!

It’s a tad frustrating when people confuse the fact that people have different tastes in comedy and think it must mean that all comedy is equal in quality.

I mean, some people really enjoy reading Mills and Boon and would hate to read a novel by Virginia Woolf. That’s undeniable. It’s a subjective thing. But if anyone thinks that means those two are similar in skill and quality they’re deluded

[Lancelottie]

@sashh

Oh bloody hell, are we getting the 1973 Morecambe and Wise and and The Great Escape?

I'd be up for that as an option.

[VinylDetective]

@Holothane

I loathe morcambe and wise not once have I ever laughed at them utter drivel the only reason they got high rating was there was little contest, today they wouldn’t get the rating.

They might easily. Our millennial kids love Morecombe and Wise.

[bellinisurge]

By all means have Mrs Browns Boys. Even tedious Miranda if you must. But some other stuff would be great. Those can't be the big ticket items. Just broadcast some popular reruns if you can't get enough new productions because of Coronovirus
As I said a Ghosts Christmas Special sounds good. That's it.

[Ifailed]

I couldn't care less because I don't watch commercial TV either.

But you pay for it, unless you don't shop in any of the places that advertise on TV, not buy any products that do.

[BashfulClam]

@Holothane I no agree I find it so boring. DH keeps telling me it’s funny but I just can’t understand why.

[goose1964]

There's a new Vicar of Dibley,and upstart crow, set during a pandemic, plague not covid.

[Holothane]

My dh has tried for years to get me to laugh at them he says it’s funny, er no it isn’t. He’s the same with monty python, the Simpson’s which I loathe big time. Only fools and horses is another doesn’t make me laugh.

[Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel]

@bellinisurge me too! I bloody love Ghosts!

[user1471565182]

Put simply, good comedy doesnt age. Porridge, Monty Python, Wodehouse and even Aristophanes are still funny.

[user1471565182]

As soon as I hear that pissing 'bring me sunshine' thing start the TV gets launched.

[user1471565182]

Why cant just do some decent old russian novel adaptions? WITHOUT bloody Lily James

[MorrisZapp]

No no no, War and Peace was brilliant and LJ was only a teeny part of it. More of the same please.

I'm still furious they didn't make any more Dickensian. Christmas needs a good Dickens.

[Onceuponatimethen]

Ooh this thread has been brilliant for alerting me to excellent Xmas telly. Loving the idea of Crow special thanks @goose1964

[user1471565182]

Well BBC's War & Peace made me want to punch pierre so I suppose that bit was successful. What a mental bit of casting that was. Who was he?

[Alexafrost]

"I mean, some people really enjoy reading Mills and Boon and would hate to read a novel by Virginia Woolf. That’s undeniable. It’s a subjective thing. But if anyone thinks that means those two are similar in skill and quality they’re deluded"

OK, show me the objective, scientific proof that Virginia Woolf is better than any Mills and Boon novel. So far yours is a dogmatic statement of subjective opinion, despite you thinking it is otherwise.

[Alexafrost]

"Put simply, good comedy doesnt age. Porridge, Monty Python, Wodehouse and even Aristophanes are still funny."

Topical comedy ages. Are you saying that no topical comedy is never good? And what of those people who don't like Porridge, Python, Wodehouse and Aristophanes? Are they wrong and you right?

Name one comic or comic novel/play that is found universally funny among all people, all cultures and for all time.

[Alexafrost]

"Oh yes the black narcissist I’ll buy that on blu ray if I can."

That would be Kanye West.

[7Days]

Wow lads this thread is sharp!
It's only telly.

I haven't come across Upstart Crow, what's it about?

[user1471565182]

Im saying even if people dont like that comedy, its undeniably extremely well put together, original, intelligent and worthwile.

[Holothane]

Whose Kenya West?

[Alexafrost]

Lol, typo, but it could be Kanye's sister.

[Alexafrost]

Actually, I wrote Kanye.

[Onceuponatimethen]

@7Days comedy based on William Shakespeare’s household. We find it really funny in our house!

[Holothane]

Oh here we go again a typo, so sorry