reggie perrin remake

[fat cherry]

anyone see this on the bbc last night - martin clunes as reggie perrin? funny in parts and good potential I'd say, though dont know why they decided to remake it. Written by simon nye who wrote men behaving badly with original author david nobbs and the only thing, as a nimber of reviewers have pointed out, a really over the top laughter track thats pretty unnecessary.

C.

[kook]

Can't see Martin Clunes in Leonard Rossiter's roll.

And, you're right - why remake it?

[guitarplayer on here too]

Other than not being able to come up with something new, I guess Reggie Perrin has some relevance even today. Boring jobs, boring commutes, etc, etc. The remake had its moments, but nobody can touch Leonard Rossiter's pure genius in that role. And the guy playing CJ, I mean "Chris". Didn't quite have the authority of the original character.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0PHn1agNf8[/youtube]

[Dr Cheese]

a really over the top laughter track thats pretty unnecessary.

The hysterical laughter that greeted every utterance ruined the whole thing imo, it was so OTT it was ridiculous.

[fat cherry]

And the guy playing CJ, I mean "Chris". Didn't quite have the authority of the original character.

he did use the 'i didn't get where i am today....' line though, so there's hope yet. I suppose they are hoping to get a whole new audience who weren't even born then. perhaps we should start a 'what classic comedies should we remake and who should be in them' thread. I vote for carry on camping - though they tried a new carry on a few years ago and stephen 'i got a bad review so i'm going to live in france and be gay' fry couldn't quite carry off the sid james part could he. or was he kenneth williams, dunno. lost the plot now, bye

[fat cherry]

wonder if they are going to politically correctify the mother-in-law-as-hippo gag?

[guitarplayer on here too]

The Hippo gag won't be used. Instead the gag will feature a bulldozer or one of those cranes with a ball used smash buildings, something like that.

[jumpingbean]

I've just watched Points of View because I'm so damn hungover and tired i really can't be bothered getting up and changing channel or finding the remote (Songs of Praise is now on for the same reason). The laughter that has irked so many people is actually recorded from the programme's live studio audience, so its their fault and not canned laughter.