Pissing all over Leonard Rossiter's Grave

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7828224.stm

Next month they are going to dig up the body of Tommy Cooper and let the controller of BBC One sodomize him live on TV. You heard it here first!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2009 13:38

I miss Mr Dave.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2009 13:38

No. Just no.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38635

The Rise and Fall of Keith Chegwin: Follow his career from promising child actor to embarrassingly todgered joke!

Daniel · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 139

There's no reason why a new version of Perrin should not be any good. They're not doing a remake of the Rossiter version to my knowledge, just a new series based on the same story. Clunes is definitely a great choice for the role; look at any of his scenes set in his office in Men Behaving Badly, and add fifteen years of life further beating him down.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Daniel wrote:

There's no reason why a new version of Perrin should not be any good. They're not doing a remake of the Rossiter version to my knowledge, just a new series based on the same story. Clunes is definitely a great choice for the role; look at any of his scenes set in his office in Men Behaving Badly, and add fifteen years of life further beating him down.

Absolutely agreed, actually. Remakes don't necessarily have to be bad. Granted I can't think of any good examples (except perhaps Survivors), but there's no reason it shouldn't work. Clunes is a very good comic actor, as well.

Daniel · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 139

Also see Staggered, which features Clunes in several flights-of-fancy scenes.

Honestly, this could be great.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2009 22:16

Dawn of the Dead was good, but in a different way.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Mr Chris wrote:

Daniel wrote:

There's no reason why a new version of Perrin should not be any good. They're not doing a remake of the Rossiter version to my knowledge, just a new series based on the same story. Clunes is definitely a great choice for the role; look at any of his scenes set in his office in Men Behaving Badly, and add fifteen years of life further beating him down.

Absolutely agreed, actually. Remakes don't necessarily have to be bad. Granted I can't think of any good examples (except perhaps Survivors), but there's no reason it shouldn't work. Clunes is a very good comic actor, as well.

They don't have to be bad, no. But this will be. Nobbs is a has-been and Nye's a jobber.

It'll be on BBC1 I bet. That's all you need to know.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

throughsilver wrote:

They don't have to be bad, no. But this will be.

So very much :this:

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For me, Reggie Perrin was basically flawless, and Rossiter, peerless in that role. Why remake (or whatever word you want to use) it? Hope it dies on its arse.

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

throughsilver wrote:

Mr Chris wrote:

Daniel wrote:

There's no reason why a new version of Perrin should not be any good. They're not doing a remake of the Rossiter version to my knowledge, just a new series based on the same story. Clunes is definitely a great choice for the role; look at any of his scenes set in his office in Men Behaving Badly, and add fifteen years of life further beating him down.

Absolutely agreed, actually. Remakes don't necessarily have to be bad. Granted I can't think of any good examples (except perhaps Survivors), but there's no reason it shouldn't work. Clunes is a very good comic actor, as well.

They don't have to be bad, no. But this will be. Nobbs is a has-been and Nye's a jobber.

It'll be on BBC1 I bet. That's all you need to know.

I agree with Mr Chris and Daniel - it could be great. It will be very different to the original series, but that was very different to the books.

Not sure about Nobbs being a has-been. Yes, the Legacy of Reginald Perrin was bad, but his books are still good. I think the problem was that removing the central character kind of removed the point of one person being driven mad by the world.

Totally disagree about Nye being "a jobber". At least I think I do - what does that even mean?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2009 23:25

It means Hulk Hogan will pin him every night, shortly before he sucks off Pat Patterson.

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

Dimrill wrote:

It means Hulk Hogan will pin him every night, shortly before he sucks off Pat Patterson.

Disagreement withdrawn.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Dimrill wrote:

It means Hulk Hogan will pin him every night, shortly before he sucks off Pat Patterson.

I might watch him in that case.

I meant it in the non-carny sense. A bod who'll do whatever pays the rent. Not a bad thing in itself, but not something that'll attract me on its artistic/humorous merit.

That, and I hate Clunes. It's pretty much a match made in hell. Maybe I was a tad harsh on Nobbs (surely 'Saggs' would be a more relevant moniker at his age, no?), but he doesn't have it in him to make this good.

I wold love to be proved wrong though.

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