You have to admire that kind of achievement.
Which sitcoms would you bring back? Page 6
There were great old shows and rubbish old shows.
There are great new shows and rubbish new shows.
Quote: zooo @ May 6 2008, 11:25 AM BSTYou have to admire that kind of achievement.
I actually did a little lol, it's that true.
Perhaps my proclamation that old stuff is rubbish was spoken with my tongue (pronounced 'tong') firmly in cheek. Perhaps.
How old is Mr. trendy chorlton?
Twenty seven. But I look 25. However I expect to hit my absolute peak in my early thirties (looks-wise and creatively).
Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ May 6 2008, 12:11 PM BSTTwenty seven. But I look 25.
Ha!
I don't want come across as an ass, but being good looking in this industry is not an advantage. anyone else have that problem? Or have any decent tips on uglying-up?
Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ May 6 2008, 12:56 PM BSTI don't want come across as an ass, but being good looking in this industry is not an advantage. anyone else have that problem? Or have any decent tips on uglying-up?
Wake up next to me in the morning, it worked for all the girls I slept with. 
Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ May 6 2008, 12:56 PM BSTI don't want come across as an ass, but being good looking in this industry is not an advantage. anyone else have that problem?
We all do. We're all f**king stunners.
Or have any decent tips on uglying-up?
Grow a beard. Gain many hundreds of pounds. Become Johnny Vegas.
From the last ten years, I'd like to see another series of Nighty Night.
And from longer ago, Chance in a Million as I think it had great potential but never really found its feet properly.
I find it to be a genuinely interesting observation that some folk cannot bring themselves to attribute value to anything which occurred before (or after) what they consider as 'their' time.
Would I be the only one to posit the possibility that this says more about THEM than anything else?
I've had more than the odd rant about the more modern stuff but I still reckon I can recognise inherently good productions when I see them.
Therefore, I give myself a smug, self-congratulatory pat on the back for being a renaissance-type person for all seasons and shuffle off down the Corridor of Ultimate Complacency, muttering dark things about the Intolerance of the Young...
I dunno, certainly in part that's true.
Generally, I think it's fairly self-evident that people would find the shows that they grew up with - whether first-hand watching, or discovered later but being the same kind of humour as they grew up with - to be, in general, preferable to those of earlier or later dates.
But then that's not a strict rule of course: personally, I'm open-minded and will watch anything from any era before making a decision about it. There is definite value, IMO, to pretty much any comedy from any year, I just find that I more consistently prefer shows from the 60s and 70s than shows from the 90s and 00s. But then, having not been around then, it could be argued that that's because I largely only get to see the better of the shows from that era (through DVD releases etc.), whereas I'm now exposed to every last piece of shit that's produced.
Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ May 6 2008, 11:17 AM BSTCorrection:
And Fawlty Towers is outdated crap! Old stuff is rubbish!
You should be beaten over the bonnet with a large tree branch until your brain starts working again and kick starts your good taste buds.
Quote: Afinkawan @ May 6 2008, 1:31 PM BSTAnd from longer ago, Chance in a Million as I think it had great potential but never really found its feet properly.
Oh, Chance In A Million was (takes long swig of beer) BRILLIANT!