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UK Gold - a pay channnel that runs old shows. Odd choice for a new program.
Yes, Prime Minister to return after 24 years
The great satire of British bureaucracy, Yes, Prime Minister, is to return after 24 years away from our TV screens. The original scriptwriting duo of Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn has already turned in their first plot, says UKTV, which has has commissioned the show to be broadcast on UK Gold. The BBC originals, Yes, Minister and …
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Friday 30th March 2012 13:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Que?
Was exactly my first thoughts, along with, who will watch it on channel most people dont even have and those that do don't even know they have it. My next thought was, oh yeah tory's back in power, explains everything. Just waiting for the overdue interest rates rise and the tears of oh I have to pay my debts back and cheaper house prices.
Personlay I think they should of left Yes Priminister alone as a classic and moved onto the house of Lag's erm I mean Lords.
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Friday 30th March 2012 15:01 GMT Scott Broukell
Re: Que? - NO NO NO NO NO!
In a democracy no government is "in power" they are elected into OFFICE!
Correcting this all too often made fundamental error what the medja continue with is urgently required, now, without a vote! Reminding politicians that they are "in office" would help remind all of us of the true function of democracy.
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Friday 30th March 2012 20:35 GMT stragen001
@Andrew Moore
Re: Que?
yep, one of the deadbeat channels. Didn't Red Dwarf go there to die too???
@Andrew Moore
Hey! Dont go dissing Red Dwarf. Its one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, and after Dave(a different channel owned by UKTV) started rebroadcasting it, it gained such popularity with a new audience that werent alive the first time around that Dave commissioned an Easter Special 3 parter called Back to Earth.
Whilst not as good as the originals, it was still the most viewed show on Dave ever, and has now led to a whole new series of Red Dwarf being filmed(already complete) that will be showed on Dave in Autumn.
Maybe, just maybe the same will happen with Yes Minister.
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Monday 2nd April 2012 07:00 GMT AdamWill
Re: @Andrew Moore
all the official full series of Red Dwarf except the new one which hasn't aired yet were made for, and originally aired on, the BBC. All the way up to series 8. Dave / UKTV only ever got re-runs and the post-series 8 specials.
fan consensus, for what it's worth, is that everything up to season 6 is definitely worthwhile. everyone more or less agrees that season 6 had some of the best gags in the whole show, but lost the strength of formatting of earlier seasons. opinion differs somewhat on whether season 5 is great or mediocre. 3 and 4 are universally adored.
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Saturday 31st March 2012 13:47 GMT Jim Morrow
> Mandarins didn't dream up public-private partnerships.
Yes they fucking did.
Ministers are intellectually incapable of thinking deeply about how to finance and operate public services. Only the mandarins have the numbers and knowledge to do that. Or understand how the machinery of government actually works. Ministers don't have the time or inclination to invent things like public-private partnerships and (more importantly) don't have the capacity to do that sort of work while in charge of their departments. It takes years for ideas like public-private partnerships and PFI to be developed: by which time the minister will have moved on. Ministers rarely get involved in the running of their departments, let alone anything concerned with long-term strategic restructuring or reform which takes 10-20 years to achieve.
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Monday 2nd April 2012 06:58 GMT Simon Coyne
Re: Leads
Read the books. Sir Bernard did indeed go out at the top. In fact the whole premise of the written version of the series is the idea of Sir Bernards notes released under the thirty year rule.
Still at the top of my all time favourite sit-coms. Hope any new attempt does the previous version justice
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Friday 30th March 2012 17:14 GMT /dev/me
Re: Deja Vu
I watched the series again some time ago. Really amazing how modern the topics where, and how views on these topics have changed.
ID cards? European non-sense. The Brits will never buy it! We'd have a revolution on our hands.
A National Database? Outrage in the land, the papers and the news... privacy is at stake.
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Friday 30th March 2012 13:49 GMT diodesign
IT angle...
...well as Andrew has marvellously chronicled over the years, government bureaucrats play a massive part in the way IT, technology and science develops and shapes ou- oh screw it, who doesn't like a bit of Yes, Minister?
It's Friday and we should be sipping a pint in the glorious sunshine.
C.
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Tuesday 3rd April 2012 13:55 GMT chr0m4t1c
@severen
I think the problem with Reggie Perrin was that business no longer operates as depicted in either the original series (or in the remake for that matter). In fact, the remake looked like it was set in the early 80's, which is where it really went wrong.
The premise is probably still reasonably sound, but the writers really needed to talk to some people who have real jobs and write to a proper backdrop instead of just trying to shoe-horn the original scenarios into modern business.
Government, by contrast, has changed very little in the past 20+ years; probably not much in the last 50+ years.
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Friday 30th March 2012 13:35 GMT Armando 123
Still looking forward to it.
I know it will be different -- with the EU and no cold war and climate now the hot topic, the political landscape is different. But has politics really changed THAT much? When I was growing up in the 70s, politicians and bureaucrats were seen as lying self-serving toadies who were too smug and too clever and deserved a slap on the chops for wasting our tax money on whatever the lobbyists told them to. Whereas today, ...
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Monday 2nd April 2012 06:58 GMT Simon Coyne
Re: Hmmm
I like the idea of Mr Parsons, but I think he would be better as the PM to the "new" Jim Hacker's Minister for DAAs. Now Atkinson in the Hacker role (think down-trodden Bean) I can see dealing with a conniving Sir Humphrey-esque Stephen Fry with able assistance from Stephen Marchant as "Bernard" I could see working well
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