Who else is looking forward to this tonight?
My Hero: Hugh Dennis On Ronnie Barker
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Me!
It's on a bit late though, I wonder why they didn't put it on in a more suitable time slot
Yes, I was just thinking that myself!
If the BBC like doing these, they could make loads of these My Hero documentaries. The list is endless I should imagine.
It is a mind-bogglingly late time. I cannot begin to fathom what they think they're doing. This should be on at closer to 6pm than 11.
A third (and for now, final) episode will be on later this year. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/ben_miller_on_tony_hancock/
That Hancock one should be good. I like Ben Miller, Armstrong and Miller's nice spoof on Flanders and Swann show he is steeped in comedy history.
Awaiting this to come on... That's if I don't fall asleep because of the stupid time slot.
Very interesting.
That were good, that.
I do feel sorry for Ronnie's statue having to spend eternity in Aylesbury, though.
Yeah.I really enjoyed that.
It was a really fascinating documentary, few things in there I didn't know about Barker. Very good!
Quote: G180e @ May 26 2013, 11:49 AM BSTIf the BBC like doing these, they could make loads of these My Hero documentaries. The list is endless I should imagine.
But then it would just become another cheap TV 'franchise' or slot with all the usual panel show regulars lining up to get more work barely related to them 'doing comedy'. Russell Addison asks prod 'Who haven't you done yet on that heroes show?' Prod says 'Er, Ronnie Chuckle hasn't been done yet'. 'Oh I'm his biggest fan I am.' 'Here you are then'.
So No.
Last night's was interesting but if Dennis really didn't know much of that, like he said, then Barker was hardly his hero, imo. A little odd, as I tend to find Dennis himself, with his gurning pauses making you wonder what he's thinking.
Barker was an enigma, a hugely talented man who could act, write and perform with equal brilliance but he retired! (A very rare thing to do in showbiz, if you're in demand)
A more critical prog would have asked 'Why did he retire?' And the rumour always was that he did so in protest at the media, The Sun printing untrue stories of his relatives and at the shabby treatment he got from the new wave of comedians like NTNON and others. For years he was like the forgotten man of comedy until a revival of interest in him, like there was for Monkhouse.
That Punt and Dennis sketch of Porridge looked great. I can't seem to find it anywhere, though. It's not on YouTube.