The Crouches Series Two
Desperately poor sit-com The Crouches, in which Danny John-Jules has a small role, has been recommissioned for a second series. HOORAY. After obtaining a whopping three million viewers in a prime time BBC ONE slot, the first sit-com ever to be about a black family, apart from all the other ones, will return with a different writer. Rab C Nesbitt scribe Ian Pattison has been replaced by Lisselle Kayla, an Eastenders staff writer.
Also returning soon are Eyes Down and Swiss Toni. Sigh.
Comments
Thats the beeb for you! I always say give summat 2 series, like at B'ladder 1. Mostly hated by many but the rest superb!
Although I expect the Crouches to still smell of carp.
And why is Ray Von in Eyes Down! >:(
Foo'!
Posted by Drzymala at February 23, 2004 11:42 AM
In principle, I agree that everything should be given a second chance. After all, the second series of Dwarf was commissioned before all of the first went out. But it's annoying that some series are given this chance, and others aren't. I'm still pissed off about Hippies.
Posted by Ian Symes at February 23, 2004 11:47 AM
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Posted by Drzymala at February 23, 2004 12:05 PM
This is a blatant gesture of political correctness by the beeb. The Crouches was written by Ian Pattison and now it's not...So, in many ways, it's a completely different show already.
However, because "The Crouches" is a "sitcom about a BLACK family", they have to soldier on with a format that was slated from all angles first time round.
Q. Why not let Lisselle Kayla create a new sitcom?
A. Oh, cos it might NOT be centered around people of colour!
Since when were sitcoms about race? I thought all that mattered was whether they were funny.
Posted by Pete Martin at February 23, 2004 01:04 PM
There's some interesting stuff on this subject in Built To Last.
Posted by Ian Symes at February 23, 2004 01:28 PM
The subject of race in television, that is. Not The Crouches being recommissioned.
Posted by Ian Symes at February 23, 2004 01:29 PM
Eyes down was v. disappointing, but I like swiss toni. There's a swiss toni game on the BBC3 website. very funny.
Posted by si at February 23, 2004 01:32 PM
Swiss Toni was excellent.
I'm surprised you didn't mention 15 Storeys High in that article, seeing as its just been axed. Even though it's bloody great.
Posted by Darrell Jones at February 23, 2004 01:55 PM
Quite. It did get two series, though, in fairness. I just hope Grass gets picked up again, even if it is co-written by someone who thinks that the crux of Red Dwarf is whether you find the word "smeg" funny.
Posted by Ian Symes at February 23, 2004 02:08 PM
CROUCHES ARGH FUCK ARGH FUCK ARGH FUCK ARGH
I saw precisely zero of Swiss Toni; nearly everyone I've spoken to says it was crap, and yet I've got a sneaking suspicion I'd really like it. I'll definitely watch the 2nd series, and I hope the 1st is repeated. It gets good marks for the following in the ticket advertising: "For Swiss Toni making a new sit-com is very much like making love to a beautiful woman: You get them in the right mood, turn the lights down low, make sure the cameras are recording everything, give it your best and then everyone laughs at you."
Anyway, at least QI is coming back...
Posted by John Hoare at February 23, 2004 04:39 PM
The Crouches? Bloody hell! Why? Why? Why? The BBC is run by Monekys, not those clever monkeys you hear about either.
Posted by Peter Curvis at February 23, 2004 06:44 PM
Everything deserves at least 2 series. B'ladder.
Posted by Drzymala at February 23, 2004 06:48 PM
The first series of The Black Adder was excellent, though.
Posted by Ian Symes at February 23, 2004 06:53 PM
And the pilot was *superb*.
Posted by Darrell Jones at February 23, 2004 06:59 PM
Exactly, it's hardly a valid comparison. Whatever your opinion on series one Blackadder, it was different to everything else out there. The Crouches is just an attempt at something thats been done many times in the past and done far better than The Crouches.
Posted by Peter Curvis at February 23, 2004 07:07 PM
Changing the subject slightly, I just caught something on Radio 2 today about a Stage version of 'Holy Grail'..Mr Cleese is involved but it will have a new cast as the Pythons are too old (radio 2's words, not mine)....Can anyone shed anymore light on this?.......As you were, Ah yes,The Crouches,Oh Dear.....
Posted by Cpt-D at February 23, 2004 08:43 PM
It's a dire musical Eric Idle's written in a further attempt to piss on his legacy. I know it's dire because I've heard 'The Rutland Isles'...
Cleese isn't involved though. And so he shouldn't be.
Posted by Darrell Jones at February 23, 2004 09:19 PM
So, worse than the Crouches then?......I only caught a bit about it on the radio and just heard what Cleese had said about it, It sounded quite enthusiastic......Mind you, he was enthusiastic about fierce creatures....
Posted by Cpt-D at February 23, 2004 10:14 PM
I only ever saw 15 mins of the B'ladder pilot and I laughed more in that 15 minutes than i did during the whole of series 1!
For me B'ladder one is just shite!
Posted by Drzymala at February 24, 2004 10:02 AM
I'd rather have The Black Adder than great chunks of Goes Forth, anyway.
Posted by Darrell Jones at February 24, 2004 10:26 AM
Fair enough
Posted by Drzymala at February 24, 2004 01:51 PM
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