Comments on: Del Boy: The early years

By: Glenn Aylett

Glenn Aylett — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:24:07 +0000

I will admit Horses seemed to go into a decline with the 1990 and 1991 Christmas specials, which were a big disappointment, and the arrival of Cassandra, but a prequel could be interesting.

By: Neal

Neal — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:12:34 +0000

Hasn’t this once superb and still much loved comedy suffered enough? Seriously?

By: ljones

ljones — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:38:06 +0000

Well…initially, this sounds like an awful idea! As someone above said if it turns out like “the green green grass” then all you can expect is a 30-min yawnothon I guess. I don’t know how they are going to keep the continuity with the original OFAH episodes — maybe they aren’t? Could this be an attempt at an OFAH reboot?

By: Glenn Aylett

Glenn Aylett — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:52:28 +0000

I just hope this works as the early life of Del Trotter has always been of interest to me: was he always a not very successful market trader, was he a mod or a rocker( though a liking for The Who and his style of dress would suggest a mod), was he ever part of the sixties counter culture, and did he ever hold down a regular full time job? This could be interesting to see how Del Boy was in the sixties and answer a few unanswered questions for the fans. Of course, if it is an excellent comedy, then all the better.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:13:36 +0000

Only Fools was littered with allusions to Del’s past, conjuring up images that’ll be hard to live up to. His mother, for one, was discussed so colourfully that’ll it’d be odd to actually see her portrayed. I agree with the earlier comments- despite being a reasonable premise, there’s little evidence that Sullivan is capable of writing good comedy these days. OFAH got increasingly weak when the Cassandra character was introduced (not helped by the wooden actress who played her) and ended up as a painfully sentimental soap opera. People laughed like drains when Del & Rodney dressed as Batman & Robin, but take another look at those episodes- pitiful compared to the early series

By: Steve Brennan

Steve Brennan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:30:34 +0000

Wow! This sounds shit!

Sorry, but Sullivan’s record for the last ten years is not good. He resurrected ‘Only Fools’ despite having already had as perfect an ending as you could wish for, with woeful results. ‘The Green, Green Grass’ is execrable BBC comedy-lite (on a similar level to ‘When the Whistle Blows’, the ruthlessly accurate Ricky Gervais sitcom-within-a-sitcom from ‘Extras’). He is also casually ignoring the back story of Freddy Robdal introduced in the classic ‘The Frog’s Legacy’, and not for the first time either. In that episode, Del and Rodney had never heard of Robdal before, and spent the whole time asking every bugger in Peckham who he was. In the final episodes of Only Fools, all of a sudden he’s in a photo with young Del and all his mates, and in this certain-to-be-shite effort he’s again knocking around with them. And who can seriously think that anyone would be interested in seeing Del & Rodney not being played by Jason and Lyndhurst? Flop of the year. I’ll stake my reputation on it.

By: Hank N. Shaw

Hank N. Shaw — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:58:58 +0000

If you have explain the mind-bogglingly awful title in the press release, it’s a sure sign that nobody’s had the balls to stand up to John Sullivan and tell him how woeful it is.

By: Bobby Peru

Bobby Peru — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:10:50 +0000

They will no doubt explain the title in the lyrics of the theme tune!

Sadly i can’t see this being anything other than a complete disaster. Casting will be vital and if the writing is sharp enough it might just work but i can’t see it working.

By: Applemask

Applemask — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:23:41 +0000

Rock is a kind of fish. Given how few people have got the joke they should probably change the title. I’m not sure how much sex and drugs will factor into it anyway.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:57:07 +0000

The Rock and Chips in the title refers to the Rock Salmon and Chips in the press release…not sure how many people will get it though. Just me, I guess.

Does sound Hideous though (the programme, not the Rock and Chips).