Comments on: Fools rushes in

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:35:52 +0000

It is a working title, but it’s been a working title for quite some time now, and it might just have stuck.

Reminder: “Rock” is a kind of fish. Hence the pun. Still not a good title, but wtihout that information it’s even worse.

By: Graham Kibble-White

Graham Kibble-White — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:09:03 +0000

Actually, on the point of that name, it should be pointed out that my understanding is it’s a working title, so it probably won’t make it to screen. Sullivan is said to be keen to have anything other than the strongly mooted ‘Once Upon a Time in Peckham’.

By: Steve Brennan

Steve Brennan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:32:18 +0000

Step back from that nail, Andy, and consider it hit.

This sounds like an epic flop in the making. Del Boy without David Jason? With a writer at the helm who, like a crap Frankenstein, resurrected the series and kept it lurching on for a succession of painful Christmas specials. Once it became clear even to him that he had squeezed every drop dry, he answered the call of the nation (no?) by giving us a spin-off with Boycie. A cockney snob in the countrysoide? Why, the comedy potential (“canned laughter on stand-by though, lads, just in case..”).

And ye gods, that title. Since he’s mining the prequel craze he could surely find inspiration elsewhere. Delboy Begins? Trotter Royale? The Phantom Rodney?

By: Andy Elms

Andy Elms — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:50:40 +0000

“Sex, Drugs & Rock’n’Chips hurtles us into the rough and unglamorous world of London in 1960 to discover the circumstances that led to Del and Rodney Trotter turning out the way they did,”

Midichlorians?

I’m sorry, I know I shouldn’t prejudge things. I know I should give them a chance. But no matter how hard I try, I can’t get excited about this. Is it a crime to hate something purely because the punctuation of a title jarrs, and that it reminds you of a cross between “First of the Summer Wine” and “The Green Green Grass”?