Reply to: The Rise and fall of Regional Perrin

[expat]

I did enjoy the original, but not enough to watch it again.
Not sure why It's been redone - well other than TV companies are scared of trying new things so they stick to tried and tested 'old favorites'. Its the same with cinema and frankly pi$$es me off that everything has to be a bloody remake these days- what happened to originality and creativity.

I agree completely.

My view of Reggie Perrin is that the new series has probably been made as well as could be done, but it probably simply should not have been done.

And indeed I have often criticised especially Americans for making American movies based on perfectly good (usually better) films already made in another country. To me, if it's French or German, decide whether you want dubbing or subtitles, but watch the real film. If you can't put up with that, forget it. It is even worse when the original is British: Hollywood remakes it with an American setting, presumably because US audiences won't watch something that isn't about the US. So it's all about making a product to sell, not at all about creating something worthwhile.

Likewise with Reggie Perrin: why remake it? The original is still available, and if the viewer is so mentally limited as to be unable to enjoy a British setting 30 yars ago, what will they get out of a pallid imitation?

[Churchill]

I am already acutely aware of that!

Oh and judging by the exclamation mark probably pre-menstrual.

[Pogle]

You're getting older, love!

I am already acutely aware of that!

[Churchill]

I did enjoy the original, but not enough to watch it again.
Not sure why It's been redone - well other than TV companies are scared of trying new things so they stick to tried and tested 'old favorites'. Its the same with cinema and frankly pi$$es me off that everything has to be a bloody remake these days- what happened to originality and creativity.

You're getting older, love!

[Pogle]

I did enjoy the original, but not enough to watch it again.
Not sure why It's been redone - well other than TV companies are scared of trying new things so they stick to tried and tested 'old favorites'. Its the same with cinema and frankly pi$$es me off that everything has to be a bloody remake these days- what happened to originality and creativity.

[Churchill]

Erm.... we watched it last week!! Well, I watched it, you fell asleep

I rest my case!

[cailin maith]

Regional? WTF?

Reginald!

Didn't watch the original. As for the new series with that Clunes fellow. Nope.

Erm.... we watched it last week!! Well, I watched it, you fell asleep

[BrilloPad]

I hereby propose you as "Minister for Letching and Toadying"!

What a job title that would be. Actually, isn't that John "I survived anorexia" Prescott's remit at the moment?

Who is minister for falsifying expenses?

[Menelaus]

I hereby propose you as "Minister for Letching and Toadying"!

What a job title that would be. Actually, isn't that John "I survived anorexia" Prescott's remit at the moment?

I thank the honorable member for the nomination.

I think it's John Prescott now; it was Alan Clarke in the last Tory administration!

[Platypus]

I'm really hating the new series - watched 3 episodes and I've decided to give up on it. I had to watch two episodes of the original series at the weekend as antidote to the carpness of the new one.

What a shame

[Churchill]

I've watched both and it's true to say that Clunes isn't as good as Rossiter and is by a long chalk significantly ruder to those around him that Rossiter was. The same amount of leching and toadying though.

I hereby propose you as "Minister for Letching and Toadying"!

What a job title that would be. Actually, isn't that John "I survived anorexia" Prescott's remit at the moment?

[Menelaus]

I've watched both and it's true to say that Clunes isn't as good as Rossiter and is by a long chalk significantly ruder to those around him that Rossiter was. The same amount of leching and toadying though.

[BrowneIssue]

Do you ever watch The Rise and fall of Reginald Perrin and think it is a documentary rather than a comedy?

Factsville, Arizona.




"I didn't get where I am today."

[dang65]

I'm really enjoying the new series. There, I said it.

[Churchill]

Do you ever watch The Rise and fall of Regional Perrin and think it is a documentary rather than a comedy?

Regional? WTF?

Reginald!

Didn't watch the original. As for the new series with that Clunes fellow. Nope.