Yup, not my age group - I’m on the younger side of gen X and I loved Allo Allo and so did most of my friends. Maybe it was specifically teenagers who were too cool for it. The restaurant I went to (it’s just an occasional thing, in London) was pretty much all proper in their 30s and 40s.
What a dad! I can’t even get my similarly-aged friends into it. Well, a few have done it and they are elite people in my eyes.
Long-distance duck à l’orange?
Knockwurst en pantalon?
Bombe surprise de Noël?
And did the cheese course come with a cabaret (or vice versa)?
Wikipedia explains all:
Filming took place mainly on location in the north Derbyshire town of Hadfield and consequently had no live audience.[3] A laugh track was added to the first and second series, by inviting a studio audience to watch a playback of the completed episodes as well as the filming of certain interior scenes, such as the Dentons’. The laughter track was dropped from the Christmas Special and series 3 when shown in the United Kingdom.
I remember the Denton house scenes - Benjamin drinking aqua vita, the house rules rhyme, Nude Day etc. The audience were cacking themselves.
Just in here to say that Taskmaster will be back with season 12 on Sept 23.
I’ve been watching Prime Suspect first episodes. I’ve noticed there are some, rather vague, similarities with how The Closer used the premise.
When we’re taking the mick out of EastEnders we always end up saying “I ain’t a grass!”
In my world it’s “Gerrahta my pub!”
When it’s not:
“You’re not my mother!”
“Yes I am!”
[Doof!Doof!]
“Either you tell him … or I will”
[Doof!Doof! etc]
That sense of comfort is why the remake of All Creatures Great and Small has just started broadcasting the second season, and someone is apparently remaking The Darling Buds of May.
And I’ll probably watch.
I really like McDonald and Dodds - that episode with Patsy Kensit and Martin Kemp et al was great. The casting was inspired.
I would love to see a reboot of The Professionals.
Twenty-Twelve was in the same vein as The Games - an Australian show broadcast in the lead up to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. John Clarke (a kiwi comic who did his best work in Australia) was just fantastic, and the 100m Track episode is awesome, with lines like
I don’t understand then, Mr Wilson, quite why in the construction of a 100-metre track you
would want to depart too radically from the constraints laid down for us by the conventional
calibration of distance.
Don’t miss Prime Suspect 1973, which goes back to Jane Tennison as a fresh WPC.
From wonderful The Day Today This is Britain, everything will be alright
Two new episodes of Vera season 11 just dropped.