New Balamory anyone?

[Partridgewell]

My eldest daughter is about to turn 23, so she was just the right age for the original Balamory. I heard tell yesterday that there's a reboot.

When I got in from work, I tried to raise some nostalgia in my youngest child but at 13, he's too young to remember it so wasn't keen to watch it with me (fair enough). DS1 would remember it but he's away at uni.

This is how I found myself watching the new Balamory yesterday evening, alone. The nostalgia! I was genuinely quite upset to see Penny Pocket running the shop alone, the actress who played Suzie Sweet having died in 2013. There are a few replacement characters but Miss Hoolie and PC Plum are the same as ever. I felt a bit sad for Miss Hoolie that she never had kids of her own, given her career but then realised that she is, in fact, a fictional character.

Anyway, I hope kids love it. I would say as much as my elder two did but neither of them were over keen tbh - they preferred The Shiny Show and Storymakers.

I'm not interested, it's entirely for the next generation of parents. Loved The Shiny Show and Storymakers, but always found the original Balamory and even worse, Me Too, slightly depressing. If I was sat watching it with DDs we probably should be doing something more interesting.

Was Me Too the Granny Murray thing with the Shard as a hospital in Scotland?

Yes, that's right, except the hospital was the Gherkin. My kids thought it was a hospital for years!

Me too brings back horrid memories of being up far too early. It did have Chris mccauseland in though. Is that how you spell his name???

Edie McCredie is also still around, she drives a boat instead of a bus.

My youngest loved Balamory so I tried it with my grandson who loves the original but can take or leave the new version for some reason! PC Plum is still a big hit for him in both though

It did!

Where can you watch it? I didn’t know Suzie Sweet actress had died 😔

I was disappointed they didn't reprise the PC Plum song with its brilliant Bohemian Rhapsody pastiche.
My learning disabled 24 year old still loves that song.

Yes, I'd forgotten his song changed, it came out after Brian May played on Buckingham Palace didn't it, so PC Plum was on top of a castle.🤣

On iPlayer. I know, really sad.