And it does stop the BBC getting into "Oh God Series 19 of Friends" syndrome
Actually I think there have been some very good sitcoms in recent years - "Early Doors", "Royale Family" and off BBC "Spaced" and "Black Books" - but I think this is one of those areas where things are not held as a 'classic' until years after - for example "Surprisingly, or maybe not, as sometimes a new series can take some time to work its way into the hearts of the British public, none of the first series [of Fawlty Towers] in 1975 made an impact in its respective week's viewing figures. One newspaper sniped: Long John, Short On Jokes — The Daily Mirror" http://www.fawltysite.net/awards.htm On 23/02/07, Kirk Northrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Richard Hyett wrote: > He raises perhaps inadvertantly the old point about why we haven't > done many good 'Situation Comedies recently and when we do why they > only run for a fairly limited series. You can't imagine Friends or > Cheers or MASH closing after two series. But "Two series and out" is a very UK way of working. Life on Mars being a recent example. -- From the North, this is Kirk - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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