tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901944301852919470.post5328547230538477150..comments2024-03-26T13:44:31.435+00:00Comments on Curious British Telly: Pygmalion SmithBen Rickettshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01749284122022718064noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901944301852919470.post-55184182084686995592019-05-25T13:31:31.558+01:002019-05-25T13:31:31.558+01:00I wonder if the Barbara Courtney mentioned in this...I wonder if the Barbara Courtney mentioned in this feature is any relation to Doctor Who's Nicholas Courtney?Ian Rushworthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901944301852919470.post-4410810054991982272018-03-22T23:02:14.797+00:002018-03-22T23:02:14.797+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.laudyachandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16893727366694569949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901944301852919470.post-32515899592772916272018-01-28T18:14:33.578+00:002018-01-28T18:14:33.578+00:00Still Open All Hours is somewhat of a guilty pleas...Still Open All Hours is somewhat of a guilty pleasure for me. I don't catch it every week, but when I do it's a nice bit of escapist fluff. And it appears to be one of the few trad sitcoms that are still on - I genuinely can't think of any others in the last few years, but maybe the rest have flown under my radar.<br /><br />Oh and LOTSW certainly trailed off for me too, I stopped watching regularly in the mid 90s. I know plenty of 'mature' people though who carried on tuning in til the very end. And I guess the vast majority of them probably watch Still Open All Hours religiously. I also know people my age who will be watching Red Dwarf 26 in 20 years time...Ben Rickettshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01749284122022718064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901944301852919470.post-34233383889903338012018-01-28T17:48:29.553+00:002018-01-28T17:48:29.553+00:00Oh cheers for the link, I've often wondered ab...Oh cheers for the link, I've often wondered about this whenever I've come across comment about it.<br /><br />I must admit though my critical eye is a little bit more critical when it comes to Clarke. I think he coasted for several years with Last of the Summer Wine effectively turning in the same script each week and I fear he's doing the same with Still Open All Hours now. Indeed, I actually feel Still...has more in common with Summer Wine than it does the original Open All Hours now, given its focus on the peripheral supporting characters, domineering matriarchs and henpecked hubbies. Even Tim Healy's Gastric has more than a touch of Summer Wine's Wesley about him. It's a shame because I really enjoyed the one off episode they did a few Christmases back but have felt each series that has followed has had the law of diminishing returns. It doesn't help that David Jason isn't as generous as Ronnie Barker was as evinced by the comic dead wood of a Granville replacement he has. I also get niggled by the age inconsistencies too: surely The Black Widow would have long been dead by now, given that Stephanie Cole was playing much older than she actually was back in the 1970s and '80s - but now she appears to be the same age as Granville, which leads you to wonder just how old Jason was supposed to be in the original as I always thought he was playing a much younger person!Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569732807130090838noreply@blogger.com