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VM
VMPhil
AJ posted:
Isn't it more that writers are going elsewhere with their new material because they feel that the BBC can't offer them the creative freedom they want?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9536262/BBC-interference-caused-Alan-Partridge-to-move-to-Sky-says-Armando-Iannucci.html


A more recent example is The Trip, the third series of which will be going out on Sky Atlantic instead of BBC Two.
HC
Hatton Cross
DVB Cornwall posted:
It's just a one off, which if it's reception is like 'Open All Hours' might get a run.

Read the press release on the BBC Press Office, and they use the word 'scripts' at least once when quoting the writer.
Leads me to think there's a series waiting to go depending on audience reaction.
WH
Whataday Founding member
London Lite posted:
james-2001 posted:
Is it going to be a period piece? Will seem a bit strange if it's a contemporary setting seeing as there aren't really department stores like that any more. But then there's Still Open All Hours...


No, the publicity surrounding the series has mentioned it would be a modern adaptation and while there isn't as many department stores as there were in the 70s, they still exist, which I'd hope would be reflected in the new series.


That's not true actually. It's going to be set in the late 80s, a year or two after the original series finished.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
According to the press release from the BBC media centre it's 1988...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/are-you-being-served
CA
Cando
AJ posted:
Isn't it more that writers are going elsewhere with their new material because they feel that the BBC can't offer them the creative freedom they want?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9536262/BBC-interference-caused-Alan-Partridge-to-move-to-Sky-says-Armando-Iannucci.html


Coogan being economical with the truth there. The first series of Mid Morning Matters was funded by Fosters like the Fast show revival. Sky Atlantic just picked up the repeat rights as the BBC wouldn't for obvious reasons.
The film Alpha papa was made by BBC films afterwards.

Broadcast reports BBC TWO turned down The Trip 3. So his "creative freedom" wasn't curbed too much then.
JA
james-2001
Whataday posted:
That's not true actually. It's going to be set in the late 80s, a year or two after the original series finished.


Makes sense, will be the era of the dying end of that sort of store, and reading the press realease, seems it will be based around them trying to stay relevant.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Whataday posted:

That's not true actually. It's going to be set in the late 80s, a year or two after the original series finished.


Conveniently ignoring the whole store closing storyline in Grace and Favour?
LS
Lou Scannon
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Whataday posted:

That's not true actually. It's going to be set in the late 80s, a year or two after the original series finished.


Conveniently ignoring the whole store closing storyline in Grace and Favour?


Grace & Favour was aired (and presumably also set?) in the early-1990s.

Did anything mentioned in G&F specify exactly *when* the store had closed?

If not, then the store still going in 1988 (and perhaps closing by the end of that very year?) would be perfectly fine?
SW
Steve Williams
Brekkie posted:
They're reviving a few but this is the one they really seem to be pushing. Would rather they celebrate 60 years since Hancock's Half Hour by commissioning and airing six brand new pilots.


Well, they're already airing three, starting this Friday.
JA
james-2001
Surely we can argue the new show's set in a different continuity from the original as well?
PF
PFML84
Will they talk about Mrs. Slocombe's pussy in the new episodes or is that too much for today's audience to cope with?
JA
Jake
Cando posted:
AJ posted:
Isn't it more that writers are going elsewhere with their new material because they feel that the BBC can't offer them the creative freedom they want?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9536262/BBC-interference-caused-Alan-Partridge-to-move-to-Sky-says-Armando-Iannucci.html


Coogan being economical with the truth there. The first series of Mid Morning Matters was funded by Fosters like the Fast show revival. Sky Atlantic just picked up the repeat rights as the BBC wouldn't for obvious reasons.
The film Alpha papa was made by BBC films afterwards.

Armando Iannucci, not Coogan. Am I missing something, what are the obvious reasons? The BBC aired the Fosters Fast Show material, I'm sure they were interested in Mid Morning Matters.

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