David Jason

David Jason talks about whether he'd do more OFAH

Sir David Jason has revealed that under the right circumstances, he would return to the role of Del Boy one last time - but there's something getting in the way. The legendary actor, 76, believed that following the death of writer John Sullivan, the chances of it coming to pass is slim.

As the warm, milky sitcom sequel continues, knackered lothario Gastric (Tim Healy) is still having no luck with the grimly clenched Madge (Brigit Forsyth). David Jason's Granville concocts a plan that has comfortingly familiar comic elements - ladders, silly costumes - so nobody minds if it doesn't really make sense. Elsewhere, it's a torrent of produce-based innuendo, with leeks, custard and bacon rind pressed into
erotic service.

The Defining the Norm Awards: the nominees

Comedian Will Franken honours the most conformist acts at the Edinburgh Fringe.

David Jason accused of racism after mis-telling joke

David Jason has been accused of racism after mis-telling one of the Queen's jokes in front of w ill.i.am on live TV this afternoon.

David Jason sends letter ahead of OFAH funeral

Sir David Jason has written to the family of the late Keith Drew, whose funeral will have an Only Fools And Horses theme.

Radio Times review

Still Open All Hours is one of those comedies that lasts just 30 minutes, yet by the end of the episode you swear you've just lost three hours.

Maybe it's something to do with the leisurely/laboured comedy business and the well-signalled slapstick, tonight involving a gag with a vacuum cleaner than anyone born before 1960 could see coming from 30 miles away in a North Sea fog.

But never mind, a gentle, unexamined life potters on inside that corner shop on an unspecified street in an unspecified era, as wily owner Granville (David Jason) takes delivery of a parcel from North Korea and tries to fix up hopeless Gastric with a date.

Radio Times review

It's easy to see why Roy Clarke's revival of his much-loved Ronnie Barker comedy Open All Hours is such a blazing hit. It takes its audience back to comfortable times, when being from Yorkshire was inherently funny, when men were hapless fools, women were either battleaxes or well-upholstered sirens and when everyone loved a bit of mild smut.

There isn't a mean bone in Still Open All Hours's body as grown men have silly fun with an over-sized Christmas tree, a sinister one-eyed Santa mannequin and a trampoline. Parsimonious local shopkeeper Granville (David Jason) remains at the mercy of the supernaturally self-operating till and the terrifying women get all the best lines. "How long since you were in curlers on a Wednesday afternoon?" wonders flinty Mrs Featherstone of comely Gladys Emmanuel.