Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant child?

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant child?

well maybe COVID-19 dementia is different

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with the re-hash of Mother and Son.

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant child?

well maybe COVID-19 dementia is different

See. I forgot the colon.

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant child?

I dunno.

There’s undoubtedly some additional rules these days, and it will remain to be seen if they can produce an equivalent series without putting a foot wrong somewhere, or whether their efforts to conform to today’s expectations will bowdlerise it too severely.

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant transgender child?

Could work.

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant transgender child?

Could work.

Well, the Americans remade Fawlty Towers in 1999, as Payne, with Basil Fawlty becoming Royal Payne, so who knows? Apparently anything’s possible.

btm said:

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant transgender child?

Could work.

Well, the Americans remade Fawlty Towers in 1999, as Payne, with Basil Fawlty becoming Royal Payne, so who knows? Apparently anything’s possible.

Did they do such a remake?

Gosh, didn’t that carve a place for itself in the history of comedy!

btm said:

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant transgender child?

Could work.

Well, the Americans remade Fawlty Towers in 1999, as Payne, with Basil Fawlty becoming Royal Payne, so who knows? Apparently anything’s possible.

I thought you must have made up that Royal Payne bit, but apparently not.

btm said:

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant transgender child?

Could work.

Well, the Americans remade Fawlty Towers in 1999, as Payne, with Basil Fawlty becoming Royal Payne, so who knows? Apparently anything’s possible.

Never heard of that show. Reading the wiki on it I suspect I won’t bother trying to track it down.

sibeen said:

btm said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Could work.

Well, the Americans remade Fawlty Towers in 1999, as Payne, with Basil Fawlty becoming Royal Payne, so who knows? Apparently anything’s possible.

Never heard of that show. Reading the wiki on it I suspect I won’t bother trying to track it down.

If the ABC was serious about remakes, they’d film a new iteration of “Phoenix Five”

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant transgender child?

Could work.

I see what you did there.

btm said:

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

Let’s start with “the re-hash of Mother and Son.“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/mother-and-son-original-garry-mcdonald-ruth-cracknell-reboot/101707226

I really wonder how they can top the original? Maybe have an adopted immigrant transgender child?

Could work.

Well, the Americans remade Fawlty Towers in 1999, as Payne, with Basil Fawlty becoming Royal Payne, so who knows? Apparently anything’s possible.

However, the show was shit.

roughbarked said:

btm said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Could work.

Well, the Americans remade Fawlty Towers in 1999, as Payne, with Basil Fawlty becoming Royal Payne, so who knows? Apparently anything’s possible.

However, the show was shit.

Comment surprise.

Neophyte said:

sibeen said:

btm said:

Well, the Americans remade Fawlty Towers in 1999, as Payne, with Basil Fawlty becoming Royal Payne, so who knows? Apparently anything’s possible.

Never heard of that show. Reading the wiki on it I suspect I won’t bother trying to track it down.

If the ABC was serious about remakes, they’d film a new iteration of “Phoenix Five”

Remaking the robot might be expensive, that’s a shedload of plastic light switches it’s wearing there.

> I really wonder how they can top the original.

Easy. I couldn’t watch the original.

Emotional abuse is not entertainment. It wasn’t funny.

A remake would hopefully be less abusive.