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The Office
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Whatever happened to the likely lads (1974)
The Office
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Whatever happened to the likely lads (1974)
Mrs Brown's Boys.
The Office and the Royle Family (although on this the Christmas Specials were not usually as good as the standard episodes).
I hope you are joking!Mrs Brown's Boys.
My personal favourite is to Hull and BackAll of the Only Fools and Horses episodes, The Jolly Boys Outing probably is my favourite
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I'm just gonna check the helipad for his next flying visitRoger my arse!
Do they still make Christmas Specials?
There’s a Guardians of the Galaxy one just out! And I watched a Mythic Quest one yesterday, so I’m going to say yes? No idea about broadcast TV, I’ve only watched World Cup games on it the last decade or so.
Does Inside No. 9 count? They’ve got a couple of good Christmas-adjacent episodes.
Creepy anthology series Inside No 9 returns with its second Christmas special this week — but after 2016’s video-nasty-themed The Devil of Christmas, this new story offers something a little more familiar.
“We wanted to build on that wonderful Christmas ghost-story tradition of MR James and Charles Dickens,” series co-creator and star Steve Pemberton tells RT. “It was something we hadn’t really done before, so it felt exciting to us, even though it’s a very traditional format.”
In The Bones of St Nicholas, a prissy academic (Pemberton) pays to camp overnight in a church on Christmas Eve, for mysterious reasons — but his plans are thwarted when others arrive, including the church warden (Simon Callow), who has a bone-chilling tale about what might be lurking behind the Christmas tree…
The evocation of MR James and Charles Dickens was, says Pemberton, “followed right through with the casting of Simon Callow, who’s played Dickens on stage and screen [in his one-man Dickens shows and in Doctor Who]. We wanted to make space in the middle of the script for his character to sit and tell the audience a ghost story. We actually pared back a lot of dialogue from this episode, because the important thing that MR James identified about a good Christmas story is atmosphere.”
And adding to that atmosphere? The chilly, bauble-bedecked church in which the episode was filmed at the end of September — in reality, St Mary’s in Rostherne, Cheshire.
“It was all filmed in the day, and the art department blacked out the light with big curtains around the church,” Pemberton’s co-creator and co-star Reece Shearsmith explains. “They did a brilliant job in the middle of this desolate field in a very old-looking church. It became twinkly and beautiful and Christmassy immediately, the moment we walked in. It’s a very Christmassy special.”
The latter day Royle Family specials were awful, especially where they abandoned the original premise of the show. The last good one was the one where Sheila died.The Office and the Royle Family (although on this the Christmas Specials were not usually as good as the standard episodes).
There's a point in the Royle Family where all the characters went way too broad. Dave in particular was a bit dippy in the series but by the time he's having a bath with the turkey they've turned him into someone who wouldn't be allowed to cross the road unaccompanied.
but weren't they the writers? so self inflicted imbecilityYes, turned both him and Denise into ridiculous imbeciles that were caricatures of their original character. The BBC commissions some right dross at Christmas (see all post 1989 OFAH including the millionaires one)
Monkey Dust was just brilliant but would never get approved now.BBC comedy has been poor for ages. This is what happens when you stop taking white men from Cambridge exclusively
That's my personal number 1, Blackadder 2, Father Ted 3Bottom… a classic
Gold Frankenstein and grrrrrrr . Genius lineBottom… a classic
We stayed on a site in France this year called Jolibois. Yes, I realise it's pronounced differently, but while we were there I couldn't help thinking about that episode!All of the Only Fools and Horses episodes, The Jolly Boys Outing probably is my favourite
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