Quote: chipolata @ October 16 2008, 3:56 PM BSTYes, but surely they're doing it to try and cash in on the success of the old show. To get people tuning in to see what thew new version's like?
Also true...but a dangerous game as people are already prejudiced against it. What next? Remakes of Fawlty Towers and Dad's Army?
Quote: Tuumble @ October 16 2008, 4:14 PM BSTAlso true...but a dangerous game as people are already prejudiced against it. What next? Remakes of Fawlty Towers and Dad's Army?
If this succeeds (ie., gets a big audience) then I wouldn't rule it out.
Sadly I can confirm that they are doing this, before Christmas they filmed the new opening credits of Martin Clunes running into the sea near the village where my folks live in Sussex.
Why they're tampering with tamper-proof classics is a mystery, why not write a new thing about mid life crisis and call it something different?!
Adam
Oh Shit
On the (very small) plus side they did it in November so it would've been freezing cold!
Suffer for your art you comedy scavengers!
As with songs, why bother to remake an already really good thing? Surely the really bad things are the things that need remaking.
There are plenty of shocking sitcoms out there which could be made better, no?
About the only example of that not being the case is with Ocean's Eleven where (I understand) the original is pretty poor and the updated version very good.
Dan
Good point, although I still have no idea what happens at the end of Ocean Eleven (remake)?
Is it a fake room? and if it is why bother putting the stolen money in a fake room and then film themselves stealing it? and if there was no way of breaking into the real room anyway how did they get the money? it. just. doesn't. make. sense!
Wow. Still a sore point with me after all these years I guess....
Need some neurofen and a lay down now...
Ah no! Say it ain't so! 
I know, we'll take something regarded as perfection and then make it even more perfecter and betterer and that.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Perhaps after this is made the "team" should turn their attention to reinventing the wheel. I've always thought that it could be improved - no flat edges you see.
Quote: ADuck @ January 9 2009, 10:17 AM GMTSadly I can confirm that they are doing this, before Christmas they filmed the new opening credits of Martin Clunes running into the sea near the village where my folks live in Sussex.
Oh dear God. Really? I thought if they were going to be stupid enough to re-make the show they'd at least try and avoid the 'classic' scenes so it wasn't possible to easily compare the two shows. They're setting themselves up for a big fall here!
If anyone goes to any of the studio recordings, please post a report here!
Quote: ADuck @ January 9 2009, 3:57 PM GMTGood point, although I still have no idea what happens at the end of Ocean Eleven (remake)?
No, see, it was a fake room and a fake robbery just staged for the cameras, and then when the casino saw the video they thought it was really happening, so they called a SWAT team in, but the SWAT team were fake as well, and it was them who did the actual robbery of the actual room... I think. Though I missed how they managed to get the casino to call the fake SWAT team rather than the real police.
Anyway, it wasn't nearly as bad as Ocean's Twelve.
I wish they'd just put the original Reggie Perrin back on TV and let us watch that.
Quote: Mike Greybloke @ January 10 2009, 2:20 PM GMTNo, see, it was a fake room and a fake robbery just staged for the cameras, and then when the casino saw the video they thought it was really happening, so they called a SWAT team in, but the SWAT team were fake as well, and it was them who did the actual robbery of the actual room... I think. Though I missed how they managed to get the casino to call the fake SWAT team rather than the real police.
Anyway, it wasn't nearly as bad as Ocean's Twelve.
I wish they'd just put the original Reggie Perrin back on TV and let us watch that.
Riiiight. That does make sense. I think. I guess they must cleverly diverted the SWAT teams phone number to their own fake one! genuis! oh no hang on, that would mean they'd have to take lots of phone calls of people wanting SWAT teams? I give up! Good soundtrack (by the awesome David Holmes) though! I'm afraid to watch "Oceans 12" for fear of having a ranting episode about logic and bursting something important.
Stick to the DVDs of Reginald Perrin, they were about £12 for the whole series on Amazon! if you really want to pretend BBC aren't butchering old sitcoms make sure you watch one a week (on the day of your choice) at 8.30, just like the old days!
Of course, I'll be fair and wait till I've seen the new one before judging...
Quote: Mike Dan-Carter @ October 16 2008, 3:39 PM BSTWhat a bloody terrible idea. There are so many promising writers out there yet the BBC seem to love giving Simon Nye re-hashed ideas to write i.e. this and the Rising Damp thing.
What Rising Damp thing?
With the new Reggie Perrin being self-contained episodes, it looks like he won't be faking his own death, which was really the genesis of the idea (the book was called The Death of Reginald Perrin, after all). It might seem too middle-class and old-fashioned now.
Elizabeth: Have a nice day at the office.
Reggie: I won't.
Smashing!
Quote: Aaron @ January 12 2009, 9:34 PM GMTSmashing!
I thought it was "great" and "super".
IIRC, it varies.
I certainly heard "smashing" in an episode I saw part of yesterday.
