Same reason I don't think you could have another Rigsby or Basil Fawlty.
I think with Porridge this time they would have been better off with the same or similar screws, your Barraclough's and your MacKay's and your Bunny Warren's and your Grouty's, but then have a completely different...
Yeah, some nice touches and I liked the old lag character and the nasty Mr. Big, but it was young Fletcher that let it down for me. Lacked all the skills of the late, great Ronnie Barker.
Didn't like Are You Being Served at all.
Just reminded me of all the things I didn't like first time round. Any little bits of decent comedy squashed, bashed and bludgeoned into submission by naff gay jokes and any mention of pussy.
Porridge was completely miscast. Kevin Bishop totally lacked...
Yeah, sort of. Script was witty in places, but that Kevin Bishop totally lacked the skills and comic timing of Barker.
I take it you are talking about the new one, Daz. ;)
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Bang on course, Don, bang on course.
He's done his luring defences into a false sense of security and now he is ready to pounce like a cobra.
My wife's genial, pet nickname is You Vindictive, Twisted, Utterly Contemptible Bitch.
When I'm not happy and in a mood with her it is obviously something a bit worse than that .:)