Martin Clunes to play title role in remake of Reggie Perrin, C/D?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7828224.stm

Classic, dud, or just plain unnecessary?

It might be OK...

you know...

I predict this will be as big a success as Ant and Dec's revival of The Likely Lads.

as long as it doesn't distract him from his Doc Martin duties I'm sure it'll be fine.

unnecessary and dud both

(xpost) I get confused between Doc Martin and that other show he appears in where he's a totally different character but is more or less indistinguishable.

Anyway, Clunes' grumpy bulldog act vs Rossiter's put-upon, harried, scheming, toady, two faced, sympathetic character = basically no contest.

Co-incidentally, Rising Damp was just on ITV3. Hopefully ITV aren't going to get the "bright" idea to remake that. But I would like them to remake "Tripper's Day", later called "Slinger's Day" with Bruce Forsyth in the title role after Rossiter died. But maybe this time they could remake it with some jokes?

For some reason I keep seeing this news and thinking they're remaking Rising Damp. Now that would be worth seeing. Don Warrington could reprise his role as he is virtually unchanged. And Alan Davies could play Alan (y'see - they've got the same name...I should really be in casting).

It might be OK...

you know...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:34 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It isn't. It's terrible.

MClunes plays a less good Reggie, the bloke playing the 'new' CJ is less good. The lines are delivered less well. Most of the rest of the cast are alright, but they are the supporting cast...

The original was called "The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin", this one is called "Reggie Perrin". i.e. it's half-bothered.

I predict this will be as big a success as Ant and Dec's revival of The Likely Lads.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:36 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Compared to this, A&D's Likely lads is as good as Bolam and Bewes' "Whatever happened to"

I saw about 10mins of this and turned over when they took great pains to show him using Google, to prove that this is modern and all that.

actual Google and not just some pretend search engine (as is usually the case)? that is surely a legal landmark

It was like they expected applause of recognition for the unchanged bits, and kudos for the parts that were new.

(e.g. Newreg walks past a building with "Sunshine Desserts" hoarding on, does not enter)

There's six episodes of this!

This was awful; I did a slight chuckle once. Watched it with flatmate and his girlfriend who kept laughing, bizarre!

Is it possible that this is "alright" if you haven't seen the original?

(serious question)

I watched it expecting to loathe it and thought it was actually OK. I see David Nobbs gets a writing credit alongside Simon Nye ... does that mean he's actually involved with the scripts, or does it simply mean they're lifting great chunks of the original?

And before we get too misty-eyed: let's not forget that the original lost its way spectacularly and became a bit of a self-indulgent mess. No, this is hardly the most original or funny thing on TV at the moment ... but if you expected it to be then, umm, more fool you :)

No, I wasn't expecting it to be original. Funny? Yes.