Quote: Aaron @ August 17 2009, 3:01 PM BSTand the pub next to the studio has a mediocre menu at heart-stopping prices.
Yes, to be honest, in the days I used to go to recordings there it had alcohol, which pretty much fulfilled my requirements completely. (In my defence I needed to be drunk to laugh at the Rory Bremner show I once saw there.)
Quote: Aaron @ August 17 2009, 3:05 PM BSTI'd recommend going to Waterloo (by Tube). Then you don't have to change on the main line, just go straight to Teddington.
Ah, I'll look into it. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 17 2009, 2:49 PM BSTSaying that, the pilot was definitely not a team written show. Penny Croft wrote it by herself (before shooting off to the US to work on Frasier).
I don't know to be honest. My flatmate was trying to get into writing sitcoms and brought it home. It pretty much looked like I imagined it when it finally aired, although I'm sure I saw something a bit darker in the script.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 17 2009, 3:10 PM BSTI don't know to be honest. My flatmate was trying to get into writing sitcoms and brought it home. It pretty much looked like I imagined it when it finally aired, although I'm sure I saw something a bit darker in the script.
That's the only problem with My Family. It has no depth.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 17 2009, 3:10 PM BSTI don't know to be honest. My flatmate was trying to get into writing sitcoms and brought it home. It pretty much looked like I imagined it when it finally aired, although I'm sure I saw something a bit darker in the script.
Probably a coffee stain. Or dried writer's blood.
I would say that's far from the only problem, but fair point...
Or a splodge of Fred Barron's big f**k off ego.
Quote: john lucas 101 @ August 17 2009, 3:12 PM BSTProbably a coffee stain. Or dried writer's blood.
It was my soul slowly leaking out of my eye holes.
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 17 2009, 3:13 PM BSTI would say that's far from the only problem, but fair point...
Other problems, to name a few...?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 17 2009, 3:13 PM BSTIt was my soul slowly leaking out of my eye holes.
Ah, and such lovely eye holes! *sigh*
Quote: john lucas 101 @ August 17 2009, 3:17 PM BSTAh, and such lovely eye holes! *sigh*
But my soul is evil so just as well.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 17 2009, 3:19 PM BSTBut my soul is evil so just as well.
'She's just a Devil Woman...'
Quote: Robert D @ August 17 2009, 3:13 PM BSTOther problems, to name a few...?
Poor quality writing with weak, repetitious set-up gags. A lack of warmth and empathy for the characters. Predictable plots and obvious denouements.
The cast have admitted as much and do you remember the girl on here who wrote for the show who didn't sound that keen on it herself?
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 17 2009, 3:24 PM BSTPoor quality writing with weak, repetitious set-up gags. A lack of warmth and empathy for the characters. Predictable plots and obvious denouements.
Agreed. And yet for all that, it's one of the Beeb's - indeed any channels - few mainstream comedy successes of recent years. It may only be the star power of the two leads, but it has something that works for a wider audience.