A reboot of the classic sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972).A reboot of the classic sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972).A reboot of the classic sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972).
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- TriviaA picture of the original Young Mr. Grace (Harold Bennett) hangs in Mr. Rumbold's office.
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Mr. Rumbold: I can't see your H O D.
Miss Brahms: I'm not wearing one!
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The creature from the black lagoon rises again!..
I was never a great fan of the original series, finding it puerile, crass, and just plain silly. I fail to understand what the BBC are trying to achieve here-if one is a fan of the original, one would watch the original-this is never going to grab a new audience's attention, because it's simply too awful for words... Matthew Horne proves (once again) that he just cannot act, and that Gavin and Stacey was a fluke, Jason Watkins as Mr Humphries does such an awful impression that any first-former could do better, Niky Wardley (Miss Brahms) isn't nearly pretty nor slutty enough, Sherrie Hewson (Mrs Slocombe) needs to learn that one scowling expression does not a lexicon make... And so on... The only glimpses of salvation are John Challis as Captain Peacock, who at least has a vague idea of comic timing, ditto Roy Barraclough (Mr Grainger) and Arthur Smith as Mr Harman (not surprising, given his pedigree)... Justin Edwards needs to learn that simply putting on a bald wig won't turn him into Nicholas Smith, who was genuinely follicly challenged, not simply (not) wearing it for a bet...The 'new' member of staff, Mr Conway (Kayode Ewumi) seemed to realize his feeder lines were long past their best in 1988!.. And finally, when will commissioning editors learn that canned laughter has a dilatory effect on the audience at home-this really did die a death in 1988.. It sounds like what it is, a travesty of an attempt to revive a long-dead corpse of a comedy that should have been buried decades ago... It's revival is merely symptomatic of the ailment that dogs the BBC-desperate, and bereft of any new ideas, and a complete lack of confidence in showing the originals -unlike BBC2 which is quite happy, and earns good viewing figures by doing so... Dad's Army, Open All Hours (the original), and Porridge all see respectable numbers on their umpteenth re-run attempts... But the real victim here is 'new' comedy... The BBC proved that BBC3 couldn't survive, because its writers were so universally awful, and seems now determined to shoot its flagship channel in the foot by offering this drivel for prime-time viewing... This is part of the BBC's 'Landmark Comedy Sitcom' season (although Gawd knows why-this was super-dated when it originally aired, in 1972)-we next move on to 'Porridge'-Lawd knows what a mess they've made of that... How could it ever work without Ronnie Barker?..
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