Quote: clueless @ November 26 2010, 12:32 AM GMT
I have a teenage daughter who has recently discovered... Ab Fab, Fawlty Towers and the Good Life. She loves ALL of them despite the fact the protagonists are much older.
Many teenagers express angst-fuelled contempt for their parents while simultaneously adoring an unconventional aunt, uncle or schoolteacher of similarly advanced years.
It's great that your daughter likes the above sitcoms but is she similarly smitten by 'Last of the Summer Wine' and 'Waiting for God'? I doubt it.
In 'Ab Fab', your main character is a most unconventional adult. One might say she's a teenager in an adult body.
In 'Fawlty Towers', your main character is another very unconventional adult.
in 'Good Life', your title-characters are unconventional adults in perpetual conflict with societal norms in general and their ultra-conservative neighbour in particular.
If the mature students in the proposed sitcom are going to be representative of the nation's mature students, I doubt they'll have much appeal for teenagers or younger people in general.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ November 26 2010, 7:37 AM GMT
Look, you're wrong, if it's well written and funny, people will watch, whether they want to be the main character or not.
I never mentioned wanting to be the main character.
