Open All Hours

[One_Matty_Lucas]

Just got a full series of the Still Open All Hours christmas special, great news for the town.

Shame that the BBC dont know we are a town.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25963719

"The new series will continue to be written by Roy Clarke, who based the show in his home city of Doncaster. "

[RTID75]

Well, at least they got it wrong in the right direction.  It'd have been a bit worse if they'd called Donny a village!

[idler]

If we were a village Mick would have the perfect job.

[River Don]

It has some potential. Some of the customers weren't bad, Jonny Vegas in particular.

I think Roy Clarke has made a mistake in trying to recreate Granville in the mold of Arkwright.

When you look at series like Summer Wine and Keeping Up Appearances, these days Clarke has a tendency to become very lazy in his writing and recycles lots of old jokes and situations. I'm not that optimistic.

[GM-MarkB]

Was one Xmas show I was looking forward to..and felt let down

[Donnywolf]

If we were a village Mick would have the perfect job.

Miiaaaaoooooww !

[idler]

Thanks Wolfy. 

[RTID75]

It did feel like he was trying to cram as many old characters and scenarios into half an hour at the expense of a story in case it didn't get a new series. That did spoil it a bit.

Hopefully with new episodes there'll be underlying stories there.

[Donnywolf]

It did feel like he was trying to cram as many old characters and scenarios into half an hour at the expense of a story in case it didn't get a new series. That did spoil it a bit.

Hopefully with new episodes there'll be underlying stories there.

I did not think that they were doing any more !  Thought the "failed" one-off had scuttled the idea

As Samuel Goldwyn once said "include me OUT"