Quote: David Bussell @ October 6 2010, 9:24 PM BSTYeah. Jews and comedy just don't mix.
yeah. right. Jewish humour is the best in the world, most American sitcoms are written by them and many British
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Let me try that again...
Quote: David Bussell @ October 6 2010, 9:24 PM BST*sarcasm* Yeah. Jews and comedy just don't mix.
isn't the jewish theme hava nagila?
Quote: bushbaby @ October 6 2010, 8:49 PM BSTI won't comment on the others but just say this. Every time one submits a short story or a play or a sitcom idea, it is absolute death to do one on a lottery win theme [everyone knows that except the beeb seemingly] no magazine or theatre will touch it........the mind boggles.
My entry was scripted from a published novel....my husbands [with full permission to do that BTW] and whilst it is obviously good enough for publishers, it's not good enough for the beeb. It's hilarious/sad/pathos/true and could have gone on for years.........
Surely Life with the Braithwaites covered all that - and then stretched it to the limit and back again.
(I'll excuse it though because it starred the gorgeous Amanda Redman.)
Quote: Chappers @ October 6 2010, 11:42 PM BST(I'll excuse it though because it starred the gorgeous Amanda Redman.)
Didn't you "excuse" Big Top for similar reasons, David?
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 7 2010, 12:20 AM BSTDidn't you "excuse" Big Top for similar reasons, David?
Um - I don't think so!
One could say that since My Family is about a family, then families have been done. It's how an idea is treated - even an unpromising one from which broadcasters traditionally shy away - that makes the difference.
Quote: bushbaby @ October 6 2010, 8:49 PM BSTI'm not impressed with the choice of the Beeb but then again I haven't read them...
Astonishing.
Quote: Chappers @ October 6 2010, 11:42 PM BSTSurely Life with the Braithwaites covered all that - and then stretched it to the limit and back again.
Wasn't it like the English update of the Beverley Hillbillies? Similar premise, anyway.
Quote: Lazzard @ October 7 2010, 2:22 PM BSTAstonishing.
Astonished, Tunbridge Wells.
Some years ago there was a sitcom titled Joking Apart. The head of the beeb at that time said he didn't regard divorce as a proper subject for a sitcom and it was nothing to laugh about.
Here we have one about a woman that doesn't know out of four men who the father of her baby is. How times change and as I said.... try selling any story about a lottery win.
The other choices seem fine.
Times have changed, yes. Surely it's only natural entertainment follow suit?
But *who* is allowing all this time to change!? It's, quite frankly, a disgrace!
Astonished, Orson Welles
Quote: bushbaby @ October 7 2010, 2:58 PM BSTtry selling any story about a lottery win.
Also, Waking Ned proves that lottery win stories aren't the no-sell you seem to think they are.
Quote: swerytd @ October 7 2010, 3:06 PM BSTBut *who* is allowing all this time to change!? It's, quite frankly, a disgrace!
Astonished, Orson Welles
Ah, go play with yer sled!
Quote: David Bussell @ October 7 2010, 3:00 PM BSTTimes have changed, yes. Surely it's only natural entertainment follow suit?
I guess people today would have a right hoot then if their wife or daughter announced she didn't know which man's baby she was carrying.
Perhaps it's my age and I'm old fashioned