Still Open All Hours
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2013 - 2019
- 41 episodes (6 series)
Update of classic 1970s/80s sitcom Open All Hours, starring David Jason as Granville, now the owner of Arkwright's grocery store. Also features James Baxter, Stephanie Cole, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Brigit Forsyth, Johnny Vegas and more.
- Series 3, Christmas Special repeated tomorrow at 12:20am on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 8,456
Press clippings Page 2
National Television Awards shortlist published
Car Share, Benidorm, Celebrity Juice and All Round To Mrs. Brown's are amongst the nominees shortlisted for the National Television Awards.
British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2018This Christmas special bubble of nostalgia - charmingly outdated even when Ronnie Barker was the stuttering shopkeeper and Granville was a tousled lad in a tank-top - isn't so much a sitcom as half an hour of small talk.
The assorted widows and divorcees of the street met, as they always do, around a kitchen table, to exchange gossip about any available middle-aged men.
Granville's son Leroy (James Baxter) was on the pull as ever, this time chatting up a local vegan lass waving a 'meat is murder' placard outside the shop.
One day it'll be Leroy in the brown apron, battling the dyspeptic cash register and diddling customers out of pennies. But in the outside world, the ants will have control.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 29th December 2017It's Christmas at Arkwright's, and many of the shop's most important customers are planning trips out of town. Mr Newbold is among them, leaving Granville exposed to the amorous intentions of Mrs Featherstone, and Madge is planning to take Mavis away, too. Plans must be hatched to prevent the exodus. Meanwhile, Leroy has his head turned by a vegetarian outside the shop, and Granville has to shift a load of duff crackers.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 28th December 2017Johnny Vegas interview
Johnny Vegas is Still Open to learning from Sir David​ Jason.
The Sunday Post, 24th December 2017David Jason guarded by minders around the clock
Two minders have been assigned to watch the Still Open All Hours actor after he was threatened by a 'rogue nutter'.
Andy Halls, The Sun, 23rd September 2017Pictures: David Jason larks about on set
David Jason, 77, proved he knew exactly how to steal the scene, as he larked about while filming on Still Open All Hours in Doncaster on Monday.
Daily Mail, 19th September 2017Pictures: David Jason with a bushy beard
Sir David Jason sported a bushy beard while out filming.
The Mirror, 14th September 2017Sir David Jason gets second autobiography deal
Sir David Jason is to publish a second autobiography volume later this year. My Lives will focus on his acting work and the characters that made him famous.
British Comedy Guide, 1st March 2017The BBC treated Only Fools stars as 'poor relations'
Del Boy, Pop Larkin, G-g-Granville... David Jason is pure TV gold and now he's back, aged 76, in Still Open All Hours. 'But don't get me started on BBC salaries,' splutters our f-f-favourite shopkeeper - or swearing, fame and those PC plonkers...
Louise Gannon, Daily Mail, 14th January 2017As 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.