General Favourite Sitcoms - Page 3

denphone · 02-07-2011, 21:05

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Originally Posted by royaltiger

I forgot Home to Roost.

Was not the late great John Thaw in that.

royaltiger · 02-07-2011, 21:08

Yes, and it was probably his first comedy role as up till then was type cast as the great Jack Reagan From the Sweeney. Reece Dinsdale played the son.

**Maggy** · 02-07-2011, 21:19

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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J

Oh, and Love Thy Neighbour.

Another very unfunny sitcom.

Stuart · 02-07-2011, 22:49

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Originally Posted by Chris

My Family is well past its sell-by date, for example. Goodness only knows how it has kept going for so long ... a house full of characters that are still utterly two-dimensional after so many years on-screen is unforgivable, even in a sitcom. And its writers have still not twigged that if you derive all your comedy from making your characters irritating and unsympathetic, you make your entire programme irritating and unengaging.

I think that My Family is average comedy at best. I also think that the reason it's still going is simply because we have very little home produced comedy on TV now.

The only terrestrial channels I can think of who produce even a little comedy are the BBC and Channel 4. Of those two, only Channel 4 appears to be investing in a lot of new comedy series. The BBC is investing in 1 or 2, but that's it.

ITV and Channel 5, for their part, appear to be investing nothing in comedy at the moment.

ITV have apparently said that when Coronation Street moves back to Wednesdays next year, they are hoping to use the prime-time slot that it's vacating to introduce new comedies, so hopefully that will happen, and hopefully whatever they produce will be funny and successful.

I also hope that if the comedy produced is good, and not successful, that ITV stick with it for more than one series. Some shows do take a series or two to really get the formula right. Look at Only Fools and Horses (the first series wasn't that good, but future series have produced what are arguably some of the funniest storylines in comedy) and Men Behaving Badly, which didn't really take off until they paired up Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey.

Jimmy-J · 02-07-2011, 23:35

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

Another very unfunny sitcom.

Do you have any favourite sitcoms you would like to list Maggy?

Angua · 03-07-2011, 08:31

Outnumbered

Dinner Ladies
Just Good Friends
Keeping Up Appearances
Open All Hours

Scrubs

To name but a few.

ZrByte · 03-07-2011, 08:43

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Originally Posted by Niles Crane

Most of these aren't in the poll unfortunately:

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
Frasier
How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory
The Office (US)
Peep Show
The Inbetweeners
The IT Crowd
3rd Rock From The Sun
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The King of Queens

Nice to see someone mention these two in particular as they are my two favourite current comedies.
Other favs of mine (Most of which have ended) include....
The young ones
Bottom
Father Ted
Black Books
Arrested Development
Green Wing
30 Rock
Friends
Game on
Garth Marenghis Dark Place.
Modern Family
Phoenix Nights
Scrubs
Red Dwarf
Spaced
The IT Crowd

denphone · 03-07-2011, 08:59

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Originally Posted by ZrByte

Nice to see someone mention these two in particular as they are my two favourite current comedies.
Other favs of mine (Most of which have ended) include....
The young ones
Bottom
Father Ted
Black Books
Arrested Development
Green Wing
30 Rock
Friends
Game on
Garth Marenghis Dark Place.
Modern Family
Phoenix Nights
Scrubs
Red Dwarf
Spaced
The IT Crowd

Sorry l could not list a lot of sitcoms in the poll but it is so difficult but yes some real gems in your list.

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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J

Do you have any favourite sitcoms you would like to list Maggy?

Yes Maggy tell us something you like.

**Maggy** · 03-07-2011, 10:00

Only fools and Red Dwarf.

I have liked many over the years but frankly after you have seen some of them repeated endlessly they do lose their charm.

My Family has to be one of the very worst of the modern offerings. Well I thought so until I saw an episode of Outnumbered and realised that it could get worse.One could let the kids write the lines...

denphone · 03-07-2011, 10:32

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

Only fools and Red Dwarf.

I have liked many over the years but frankly after you have seen some of them repeated endlessly they do lose their charm.

My Family has to be one of the very worst of the modern offerings. Well I thought so until I saw an episode of Outnumbered and realised that it could get worse.One could let the kids write the lines...

Yes there were some classic episodes in OFAH like Del-boy when he is standing by the bar,The chanderliers, Batman and Robin and the inflatable dolls just to name but a few.

Kymmy · 03-07-2011, 10:54

Not a great lover of Sitcoms and never watched an episode of Only fools and horse and only one episode of Dad's Army... but the three that I most enjoyed was

Open all hours
Red Dwarf

and the best one of the lot...

THE BRITTAS EMPIRE

denphone · 03-07-2011, 11:18

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

Not a great lover of Sitcoms and never watched an episode of Only fools and horse and only one episode of Dad's Army... but the three that I most enjoyed was

Open all hours
Red Dwarf

and the best one of the lot...

THE BRITTAS EMPIRE

Open All Hours was a favourite of mine with the legendary Ronnie Barker as Arkwright and David Jason as Granville.

royaltiger · 03-07-2011, 15:51

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Originally Posted by Stuart

I think that My Family is average comedy at best. I also think that the reason it's still going is simply because we have very little home produced comedy on TV now.

The only terrestrial channels I can think of who produce even a little comedy are the BBC and Channel 4. Of those two, only Channel 4 appears to be investing in a lot of new comedy series. The BBC is investing in 1 or 2, but that's it.

ITV and Channel 5, for their part, appear to be investing nothing in comedy at the moment.

ITV have apparently said that when Coronation Street moves back to Wednesdays next year, they are hoping to use the prime-time slot that it's vacating to introduce new comedies, so hopefully that will happen, and hopefully whatever they produce will be funny and successful.

I also hope that if the comedy produced is good, and not successful, that ITV stick with it for more than one series. Some shows do take a series or two to really get the formula right. Look at Only Fools and Horses (the first series wasn't that good, but future series have produced what are arguably some of the funniest storylines in comedy) and Men Behaving Badly, which didn't really take off until they paired up Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey.

Am I right in thinking the first series of Men behaving badly was on itv, then it moved to bbc

MadGamer · 03-07-2011, 15:59

Just Good Friends was another one. My mum got me into that show

denphone · 03-07-2011, 16:04

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Originally Posted by MadGamer

Just Good Friends was another one. My mum got me into that show

Yes it starred Paul Nicholas and Jan Francis and was underrated in my mind.

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Originally Posted by royaltiger

Am I right in thinking the first series of Men behaving badly was on itv, then it moved to bbc

Yes you are right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Behaving_Badly