I'd love to see Robert Lindsay in another sitcom again. He's a great comic actor, and this show's enduring success was mainly down to him and Zoe Wannamaker.
Quote: zooo @ March 25 2011, 3:01 PM GMTStott wants to put his wrong in you.
Oh dear.
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Is Nick in the final series at all?
Quote: zooo @ March 25 2011, 3:17 PM GMT
Is Nick in the final series at all?
I used to watch it when he was in it, stopped shortly after he left; the other two 'children' weren't really up to much.
Quote: zooo @ March 25 2011, 3:17 PM GMTIs Nick in the final series at all?
Probably not.
As for needing to try that hideous system here, my view is 'Yanks Go Home! Keep your commercially based practices to yourselves.' Their naff comedians and sitcom actors can buggar off too, they're only here because they can't make it in their big pond.
I'd quite like to see more team-written stuff here but the American way, as there's obviously some massive difference in the way they do it here.
Dan
Quote: zooo @ March 25 2011, 3:17 PM GMT
Is Nick in the final series at all?
No, too busy 'getting married'. Haven't you been on line to vote yet about the wedding of year?
I think he's in an a new American sitcom at the moment, too.
Quote: KLRiley @ March 25 2011, 4:48 PM GMTNo, too busy 'getting married'. Haven't you been on line to vote yet about the wedding of year?
Adam and Jane?
I voted last time round to cancel their unborn child (I can't remember the exact terminology), but it didn't happen.
Quote: Splodge @ March 25 2011, 6:26 PM GMTAdam and Jane?
I voted last time round to cancel their unborn child (I can't remember the exact terminology), but it didn't happen.
I voted that it was
A) An Alien
or
B) His best mate's baby.
Neither are original but they'd have been funny!
Sad to see it go, but it is time it ended. I would have liked a special hour long final episode though, seeing as they didn't know it was definitely ending when they filmed it last year.
Quote: David Carmon @ March 26 2011, 12:15 AM GMTSad to see it go, but it is time it ended. I would have liked a special hour long final episode though, seeing as they didn't know it was definitely ending when they filmed it last year.
I would expect that a couple of years down the line there will be a Christmas Special.
No Christmas specials please, no re runs, burn the show completely, re-edit all the back copies of Radio Times and try and make out it never happened. Let's try and forgive the BBC this one big slip up. As for Lindsay, probably the main reason why so many people watched it, don't worry, in a couple of years people will remember you as Wolfie Smith, or the bloke in GBH, you'll soon be able to show your face again. As for Wannamaker, hmm, that's not a face you'd want to show again, is it. Maybe radio?
Quote: David Carmon @ March 26 2011, 12:15 AM GMTSeeing as they didn't know it was definitely ending when they filmed it last year.
They did know it was the end when they filmed it. The only reason the BBC has taken the decision to axe the programme is because Robert Lindsay announced his intention to leave in 2009 and the BBC knows that My Family can't continue without him.
That's not saying the last episode was written to be a last episode though, but they were pretty much in the know that it was the last one.
Well it's certainly fair to say that they were aware it could be the final lot of episodes, but as both Lindsay and Wannamaker have been saying for years that they don't wish to continue, only to agree to more money, to suggest that the team KNEW they were final is slightly misleading.
Let's not forget that the series has had some wonderful comedy cameos over the years - Hugh Lloyd and Leslie Randall spring to mind.