Sitcoms you would bring back

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but are there any sitcoms of yester year (who the flip says yester year?) that you would like to bring back?

And when I say bring back, I mean a one off comedy special at the very least and not in a crappy Justin Lee Collins, let's put some elderly actors who haven't worked for 25 years in a room together for 15 minutes on the promise of $500 and a free lunch type way.

Just off the top of my head, I would love to see another outing of The Young Ones or Red Dwarf...but not Metal Mickey. (Unless he went all Robocop and Atomic Thunderbusted peoples heads off).

Any shows in the comedy closet you would like to dust off for one more spin?

I think it depends on the script, and how the show was left.

As good as The Office was, for example, no fan will ever really want it resurrected after such a fitting ending.

Other sitcoms of similar quality that weren't polished off quite as finitely - Only Fools and Horses and Fawlty Towers, say - are such national institutions that anything new would have to more than match up to the original quality. The latest Christmas OFAH specials are still a little painfully lodged in the memory for some.

And those two are particularly difficult as nobody would accept anything less than the original cast.

I think Yes Minister could make a return, especially with the current economic climate potential fodder for good, dark political satire. Embezzlement storylines and self-interested politicians would surely be on the cards.

And with Guy Jenkin finding new success with Outnumbered, a return of Drop the Dead Donkey would seem as plausible as it would be welcome.

I sort of don't want them to try and go back now, I think it's been too long, but I would have loved an extra series of Spaced.

I'd certainly like to see Simon Pegg, Edgar Rigt, Jessica Stephenson and Nick Frost do another TV show, but not Spaced. I tend to think there's a five year time limit on revisiting shows, after that it doesn't work.

If we can bring the dead back to life - then let's get Fletch and Lennie in Belmarsh with a load of terrorists and the like.

Quote: chipolata @ January 7 2009, 4:57 PM GMT

I'd certainly like to see Simon Pegg, Edgar Rigt, Jessica Stephenson and Nick Frost do another TV show, but not Spaced.

View original

That would be great, but I'd be surprised if Edgar Wright would give up movie directing to go back to TV for a while. At least not at the moment.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ January 7 2009, 5:05 PM GMT

That would be great, but I'd be surprised if Edgar Wright would give up movie directing to go back to TV for a while. At least not at the moment.

View original

Yeah, I think Pegg and Wright will be very hard to tempt back to telly, except in a producing role (they've got their own production company, haven't they?).

Quote: chipolata @ January 7 2009, 5:08 PM GMT

Yeah, I think Pegg and Wright will be very hard to tempt back to telly, except in a producing role (they've got their own production company, haven't they?).

View original

I think so; I'm sure I read that Pegg's producing and helping to write some TV drama thing. I wonder why Pegg and Jessica Hynes/Stevenson haven't written a film together yet?? He's even written one with Nick Frost!

I get the impression that Jessica's more interested in her family now than writing and starring in stuff. Hope I'm talking out of my arse because she's a great talent.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 7 2009, 4:33 PM GMT

Just off the top of my head, I would love to see another outing of The Young Ones or Red Dwarf...but not Metal Mickey. (Unless he went all Robocop and Atomic Thunderbusted peoples heads off).

View original

I thought Red Dwarf was coming back for a special in March?

Quote: chipolata @ January 7 2009, 5:08 PM GMT

Yeah, I think Pegg and Wright will be very hard to tempt back to telly, except in a producing role (they've got their own production company, haven't they?).

View original

When the news of the American version of Spaced was released, Simon wrote the script for the internet viral. I'd like to see that actually filmed.

Quote: chipolata @ January 7 2009, 5:14 PM GMT

I get the impression that Jessica's more interested in her family now than writing and starring in stuff. Hope I'm talking out of my arse because she's a great talent.

View original

Maybe than writing, I don't know, but not acting as she still appears in plenty.

Although writing is one thing you *can* do when at home with the kids, I'd have thought.

Quote: Griff @ January 7 2009, 5:56 PM GMT

I know this is suicide on this forum but... I'd like to see another series of Phoenix Nights, rather than all the other stuff Peter Kay's done since.

View original

This saves you.

Quote: Griff @ January 7 2009, 5:56 PM GMT

I know this is suicide on this forum but... I'd like to see another series of Phoenix Nights,

View original

Why suicide? Phoenix Nights is great!

Quote: Griff @ January 7 2009, 5:56 PM GMT

I'd also like another series of Black Books (which doesn't seem impossible) and I hope we haven't seen the last of Alan Partridge.

View original

Yes to both of those too.

Vic & Bob in Catterick.

Quote: Leevil @ January 7 2009, 6:42 PM GMT

Vic & Bob in Catterick.

View original

Vic and Bob in anything.