Thread: My Family & Barrowman
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2nd Apr 2007, 8:57 AM #1
My Family & Barrowman
Zoe Wanamaker has admitted that she is no longer impressed with the quality of My Family.
The actress, who plays Susan Harper in the BBC One comedy show, revealed that she and co-star Robert Lindsay even refused to film one episode because it was so poor.
"What attracted me to the first scripts was that they had a slightly quirky, American Jewish quality to them. That's my humour. Critics absolutely hated it. The public liked it. But it's turned into a machine," Wanamaker told The Daily Telegraph.
"Robert and I even refused at one point to do one, it was so bad. That caused a lot of problems, but we just felt it was not good enough. We had practically a football team of scriptwriters working on the last series."
However, Wanamaker added that she is grateful for the financial rewards of appearing on the programme.
"I shouldn't knock it. Hey, I bought three paintings. I also planted 23 trees the other day in my cottage."
My Family returns for a seventh series next week.
Si.
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2nd Apr 2007, 9:27 AM #2
I refused to watch it from the start
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2nd Apr 2007, 9:53 AM #3
Given the low quality of the product anyway makes you wonder how bad the boycotted script must have been.
Bazinga !
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2nd Apr 2007, 11:13 AM #4Close embrace
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From day one it was absolutely the worst sitcom I have ever seen.
And I've seen The Green Green Grass and My Hero.
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2nd Apr 2007, 12:35 PM #5
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2nd Apr 2007, 12:50 PM #6
It's only worth watching for Danielle Denby-Ashe, isn't it?
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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2nd Apr 2007, 12:55 PM #7
It's not necessarily the worst comedy there's ever been, but I do find it incredibly irritating, to the extent that I rarely have the patience to stay with it all the way through an episode.
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2nd Apr 2007, 12:59 PM #8
I agree with Perry Vale.
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2nd Apr 2007, 3:03 PM #9Pip Madeley Guest
This reminds me of that time that Hartnell, Purves and O'Brien refused to do 'Mission to the Unknown' because it was so unbelievably rubbish. The arguments between the regulars and the production team were so intense that O'Brien was sacked for verbally abusing Donald Tosh - he hastily wrote her out in the scripts for the next story 'The Myth Makers'. Meanwhile, the script for 'Mission' for rewritten to remove the TARDIS crew and Verity Lambert handed in her resignation.
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2nd Apr 2007, 3:06 PM #10
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2nd Apr 2007, 3:56 PM #11
I think the original cast left and went on to better things as opposed to being got rid of!
I like it - I've got the first 5 series on DVD. It has markedly declined in quality after season 3 though, so I don't know if I'll bother getting any more.
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2nd Apr 2007, 7:34 PM #12
What's Pip been drinking?!
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2nd Apr 2007, 11:48 PM #13
It used to be wathcable in a "leave your brain at home sort of way" but that cousin or whatever she is is very irritating and it's a waste of three very good actors (Linday, Wanamakelovetoyoubaby and Denby's-Gash). It had it's day when Kris Marshall spacked off but you can see why the Beeb keep going as they're not excatly falling over with popular sit coms at the moment.
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3rd Apr 2007, 8:09 AM #14WhiteCrow Guest
I live in fear of "My Family" themed nights on UK Gold. I never found it anything too special.
I swear the BBC have lost the knack for making comedy. All they seem to churn out now is hospital/police drama. I'm sure Doctor Who only came back because someone saw the word "Doctor".
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3rd Apr 2007, 12:22 PM #15Pip Madeley Guest
I think that's the generalisation of the decade, surely?
Extras
The Mighty Boosh
The Catherine Tate Show
Ideal
Little Britain
Mock The Week
Have I Got News For You
Saxondale
That Mitchell And Webb Look
The Thick of It
Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe
Rush Hour
Dead Ringers
Help
and
Hyperdrive (well yes, I'll give you that one)
Off the top of my head. They're making just as many comedy shows as they always did.
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3rd Apr 2007, 12:33 PM #16
The trouble is, history only remembers the winners. So you look back and say "They used to have Fawlty Towers and The Good Life and Porridge, what have we got today?", whence you have plucked the best three comedies from a ten year spell ignoring the dozens of crappy shows that had to also be churned out.
If you look back on our most recent complete decade, (the nineties) you can see it turned out many, many shows that are easily the equal of the best of the previous decades - "Men Behaving Badly", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "One Foot In The Grave", "Dinnerladies", "Red Dwarf"...
Si.
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6th Apr 2007, 3:18 PM #17
Turlough speak the truth.
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9th Apr 2007, 10:06 PM #18WhiteCrow Guest
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10th Apr 2007, 11:52 AM #19Pip Madeley Guest
Take A Letter Mr Jones has had a bit of a comeback since John Inman, certainly on the Internet.
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10th Apr 2007, 1:23 PM #20Extras
The Mighty Boosh
The Catherine Tate Show
Ideal
Little Britain
Mock The Week
Have I Got News For You
Saxondale
That Mitchell And Webb Look
The Thick of It
Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe
Rush Hour
Dead Ringers
Help
and
Hyperdrive
I'm looking at all the comedy that I've really loved over the last couple of years, and nearly all of it is being made in the US, eg. Arrested Development, Wonder Showzen, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill, The Sarah Silverman Program, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Trailer Park boys, etc, and I just wish we were making more that's comparable to that. Even people who were previously wonderful have made a couple of dud shows recently (Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci), I'm just hoping the new Enfield / Whitehouse sketch show and Peep Show are both something to get excited about when they return on Friday."RIP Henchman No.24."
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10th Apr 2007, 1:37 PM #21Extras
The Mighty Boosh
The Catherine Tate Show
Ideal
Little Britain
Mock The Week
Have I Got News For You
Saxondale
That Mitchell And Webb Look
The Thick of It
Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe
Rush Hour
Dead Ringers
Help
Hyperdrive
Off that list I don't like much of Catherine Tate or Little Britain & don't like Extras (or the Office). I really don't think much of Gervais at all. That Comic Relief bit he did was his best work IMO.
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14th Apr 2007, 12:27 AM #22Dave Lewis Guest
It's all about the threes...
Three of these are works of timeless genius...
Three of these are sometimes brilliant, sometimes bollocks...
Three of these are crappy, but with the occasional moment of joy...
Three of these are God-awful piles of effluent...
Three of these I've never even heard of...
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14th Apr 2007, 12:59 AM #23Pip Madeley Guest
I'm guessing the Mighty Boosh, The Thick of It and Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe are your works of timeless genius?
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14th Apr 2007, 1:02 AM #24
Pip! I've just noticed you've missed off Look Around You from that list! No no no! Bad Pip!
"RIP Henchman No.24."
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14th Apr 2007, 1:06 AM #25Pip Madeley Guest
Well, in my defence, the list was off the top of my head
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