Take a successful series from the past, bring in as much of the old cast as possible, come up with an updated scenario and a few new characters, and...you guessed it, you get a bunch of older actors going through the motions who fail to entertain the audience like they had done in the past. This was also the case with the 1995 "Get Smart" and "Life With Lucy".
The old Grace Brothers department store had closed, and with little in the way of retirement money, the old employees from the men's and women's departments are given an old country manor house to reside in and try to make money off of, and there are problems such as obnoxious locals to deal with, and episodes such as retrieving a 200-year-old cat from the property to put into a museum.
The whole scenario, besides being contrived, lacks the elements that made "Are You Being Served?" funny, such as dealings with various customers, having automated store displays malfunction, trying to sell inferior merchandise ("It will ride up with wear!") and so forth. It was a matter of reassembling the old cast and not having anything good for them to do.
The old Grace Brothers department store had closed, and with little in the way of retirement money, the old employees from the men's and women's departments are given an old country manor house to reside in and try to make money off of, and there are problems such as obnoxious locals to deal with, and episodes such as retrieving a 200-year-old cat from the property to put into a museum.
The whole scenario, besides being contrived, lacks the elements that made "Are You Being Served?" funny, such as dealings with various customers, having automated store displays malfunction, trying to sell inferior merchandise ("It will ride up with wear!") and so forth. It was a matter of reassembling the old cast and not having anything good for them to do.