Britain's Best Sitcom Coming Early 2004
You may remember back in August we briefly reported on voting for Britain's Best Sitcom- you had to select your top 10, mainly from this list (although you were allowed one choice of your own - fat lot of good that would have done you, though).
Well, thanks to Shagspeare on NOTBBC's Comedy Forum who pointed us towards this article on Ananova (see also this item on BBCi on BBC TWO's winter programming). Yes, the next stage has been announced - the first show in the series (which is to be hosted by Johnathan Ross - a good choice) will give a rundown of the top 50 as voted by you; and then the next 10 subsequent shows (each an hour long) will feature a celebrity advocating the cause - exactly like The Big Read. (And as an ident freak, I do hope the programme gets its own ident or two like TBR as well...) The final programme revealing the top spot will be live.
I'm reasonably confident Dwarf will make it into the top 50; it's unlikely to make it into the top 10, but here's hoping anyway. It'd be very nice for Brittas to make it into the top 50 as well - despite being popular at the time, it's never really got the respect it deserves. As for the top ten itself - seeing as the shows in it will have been talked about a million times before, the entertainment purely rests on whether the person advocating them is any good or not - particuarly whether they bother to come up with anything original, or just go for the old cliches. I suspect: Armando Ianucci good, David "cunting" Dickinson bad.
Comments
Why does no-one ever spell my name correctly?
Posted by Armando Iannucci at December 5, 2003 02:59 PM
Wot a wanker, eh?
Posted by Jonathan Ross at December 5, 2003 03:48 PM
I'm going to win. You all know it.
Posted by David Brent at December 5, 2003 05:23 PM
Why do we bother?
Posted by Marshall and Renwick at December 5, 2003 05:35 PM
Think yourself lucky. Filthy Rich and Catflap and Happy 'bowel-shatteringly-fantastic' Families didn't even get fucking shortlisted.
And everyone calls me a cunt.
Posted by Ben Elton at December 5, 2003 05:42 PM
Whoops. And I'm usually pretty good with names as well. Sorry.
I'll let them stand as a TESTAMENT to my INCOMPETENCE.
Posted by John Hoare at December 5, 2003 08:08 PM
I didn't get where I am today by not being nominated
Posted by CJ at December 6, 2003 11:05 PM
Sorry, CJ
Posted by Reggie Perrin at December 6, 2003 11:06 PM
Super !
Posted by David Harris-Jones at December 6, 2003 11:09 PM
Great.
Posted by Tony Webster at December 6, 2003 11:11 PM
Good!
I don't think even the BBC would stoop to having The Office win this; surely it'll be Dad's Army or OFAH...
As for the original 100 shortlist; well, it's plainly bollocks. Hopefully all the twattishly awful ones will have been eliminated from the Top 50.
Posted by John Hoare at December 7, 2003 07:51 AM
Look at me! I'm a loud mouthed bint and he's a puff! What a funny forumla for a comedy! And i'm a fat bitch too, how hilarious!
Posted by Kathy Burke at December 8, 2003 02:16 AM
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Posted by Ricky Gervais at December 8, 2003 09:45 AM
I don't Beleeeeeeeeeeve it.
Posted by Richard Wilson at December 8, 2003 10:54 AM
I suspect Only Fools has this in the bag. They'll show the clip of Del fallingthrough nthe bar, then show the clip of Del and Rodney dropping the chandelier. Then a hundred celebrities will go on about how funny it was when he fell through the bloody bar.
And Kathy - Gimme Gimme Gimme was superb!
Posted by Chris the Dolochimp at December 8, 2003 12:30 PM
You're clearly wrong, innit?
Posted by Kathy Burke at December 8, 2003 01:36 PM
I'd have to say 'Only Fools' would deserve it, and
I think Red Dwarf would deserve a top ten..If the
Office wins it (as good as it is)I'll be very dissapointed..
Posted by Cpt-D at December 8, 2003 01:53 PM
Kathy; if you can't be arsed to have a proper look at the clever writing behind GGG, then it's your loss. However, I wouldn't put it in the Top Ten.
Posted by Tanya Jones at December 8, 2003 02:43 PM
Isambard Kingdom Brunel got to the top ten of 'Great Britons' largely because he has a devoted following who voted for him en masse. The same thing happened in the final poll and he almost won.
So, moss/Symes: why not try and organise something similar for TEH SEMG DRAWF?
Posted by Simon at December 8, 2003 06:41 PM
We advertised the main vote a fair bit, both on here and on various fora. If RD makes the top ten, which is unlikely, we'll be plugging like mad.
Posted by Ian Symes at December 8, 2003 07:01 PM
Red Dwarf Fans Eh !...They Don't like it up em..
Posted by Corporal Jones at December 9, 2003 04:24 PM
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