Here's a revolutionary thought

How about the BBC save all that money and just re-run the original hilarious series?

"hoped to slightly lower the average age of BBC1 viewers"*,

Oh hurrah. Yet more pap aimed at the youfs.

Sacrilege

Anyone who *really* loves a TV show will leave it be, not pick it apart for a 're-imagination'. Shame on you. Either get some new ideas or repeat the original series.

Once again relevant?

Bah! Whatever could they mean. Are they suggesting that the last 29 years has somehow not had people working at pointless jobs and wondering what it's all about?

And as for encouraging younger viewers, you only appreciate Reggie's employment-related angst once you have a few more years yourself.

Mine's the one next to the briefcase with several Grot! catalogues in the pockets.

The Day After Tomorrows World

Sponsored by the Department of Panic (Formerly the Home Office), it will offer such features as,

How to mine and burn coal, for when Russia cuts off the gas.

Knitting for fun and survival from hypothermia.

The making of bows and arrows for our hard pressed military units currently defending Devon from the latest Cornish Uprising.

Head Lice farming, a valuable new source of protein.

And an ongoing series about how to convert popular makes of car to run on pedal power.

(Please feel free to add you own interesting, important and life saving ideas.)

IQs of TV viewers are already low

It's about time that the IQs of TV viewers were raised - not dropped.

TV for the lowest common denominator has been going on for years - and it probably explains why people happily put with so much other crap in their lives, when their expectations have been lowered...

"hoped to slightly lower the average age of BBC1 viewers"

I for one will be more likely to watch BBC1 if doing so will slightly lower my age.

@ sacrilege

TV show?! We're talking about a book, aren't we?

This "cathode-ray tube" will be the end of reading as we know it, as all our best-loved novels are "re-imagined" for the small screen.

The thermionic valve is the destroyer of culture.

more dumbing down

>she "hoped to slightly lower the average age of BBC1 viewers"

Oh good, more dumbing down of TV. Why do we have a nationalised broadcaster anyway - is that really the state's job? Imagine if we had to pay a poll tax every year so the state could publish a newspaper.

(Paris because she's the new target audience.)

rather harsh...

I remember when they discovered the top quark in 1995 that woman (judith something) stood around 6 boxes representing the quarks with a giant box for the top quark.

If she's the one to blame for me doing a phd on the subject 13 years later she's got a lot to answer for!!

Mine's the one with the Higgs in the pocket

Bit of a cock-up...

... on the imagination front

iq's lowered

they can lower iq's below 0? It must be the future! I thought most tv only relates to people who are already braindead. Note I don't own a tv, couldn't see the point since there's nothing decent on anyway.

Here's a thought: Tomorrows world was great when you saw all that could be in the future, be some of it unrealistic. What if they did something like 'Tomorrows world Today' where they went over all the things in tomorrows world, showed where that was today (since most of it appeared in some form or other), then show where it's going in the future (with real science). If it doesn't fit the govt agenda of brainwashing, they could show how each item could be used either in the war against terror or by terrorists....

yer maybe not

Pppprrrtttt! Sorry C.J.

Great!

Super!

I'm off to leave all my clothes on a beach now...

Don't Do It!!!

Leave it alone - it was perfect.

@Bill

Nah,

It was on the Beeb - you're probably thinking of "Rising Damp" which *was* on ITV.

Not just Tomorrows World

> Licence payers can only hope this will actually contain some science, an element

> sadly lacking from the moribund TW shortly before it was consigned to the

> dustbin of TV history.

Maybe they could add some (real) science to Horizon while they're at it.

I didn't get where I am today

It sounds like she has made up her mind. I didn't get where I am today without recognising a faits accomplis worse than death.

@ Chris Richards..

.... Judith Hann .... I had a massive crush on her when I was much younger!!!

.. cough .. sorry my hormones were at a rather different level in the late 1970's...

I'd be happier

if my license fee was spent on turning the BBC into "The Family Guy and Futurama Channel". No need for any of that other nonsense they piss my money up the wall on.

Please don't get me started on the London Olympics.

Sorry I am delayed in replying to the post

The train was twenty-two minutes late, badger ate a junction box at New Malden.

Please, please please do not remake this piece of history. Better they spend the money "remastering" the episodes for the HD generation.

@Tom

So, Tom, what do you think of the London Olympics?

Of course they won't rerun the original series

Because then they couldn't sell it as a massively overpriced DVD set.

Age vs Reggie

When I first watched this, I used to rush home from scouts to see it. It was pretty funny.

They repeated it when I was in my late 20s and it was seriously funny.

Now I'm 45 and I recently watched it on DVD. Now it's not funny, it's just a reflection on the tragedy of the life I currently lead.

O

True Story

My maths teacher was Judith Hanns brother.

TW Used to be quite informative, and educational in an entertaining way, but towards the end it got more into entertainment and less into science and gadgetry.

Luckily I caught the earlier shows, and I do miss them. That along with a number of Johnny Ball shows (There was a man that could inspire a desire to do science in ANYONE!) certainly helped put me on the path I've now followed.

Flame, as everyone knows the best science involves or creates some form of fire.

@Onionman

"Spend the money you were going to waste on a remake and make some original programming. It might fail, but equally, you might end up with something as good (or even better). Either way, you'd have tried something original rather than a tired rehash."

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at least let me get my coat....

***thud***

i think not

The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin, was a BBC production. ITV broadcast "Rising Damp". Hope that clears up any confusion as to why the BBC have jurisdiction over the matter, but perhaps not the right to re-make. A classic is a classic, leave it alone

I didn't get where I am today...

watching crap rip offs of classic series with second rate actors like Clunes in them.

What are the BBC going to do next? Remake Rising Damp with unfunny fat twat Ricky Gervais as Rigsby?

@Dave Murray

Totally agree with you, but ffs, don't give them any ideas regarding the waste of space that is Ricky Gervais...

Dear BBC, Here's an original idea...

Have an ORIGINAL IDEA FFS!

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For all those complaining about originality...

I have one word for you

Bonekickers

Yeah, sod originality, no matter how bad the remake it can't be worse than that trash was.

Looking forward to a large glass of Tom's Wine !!!

while relaxing in the squeaky chair.

Reggie Perrin RIP

My late father introduced me to Reggie Perrin, a real comedy gem.

It was ruined by the "Legacy of Reggie Perrin" (get all the surviving cast back together years later for a barrel scraping 4th series), a remake sounds ghastly, especially if Martin Clunes is involved.

We also used to watch Tomorrows World in the days of Raymond Baxter, Michael (Screen Test) Rodd, Judith Hann and Maggie Philbin. I don't think that the show can ever be successfully brought back after "Look Around You" though. Times change - those of us who are actually interested in Science and Technology can use technology to find out for ourselves using something called the Internet.

David Nobbs

Hur hur hur

James Burke

I'm glad somebody mentioned him. Where's he been lately, if the BBC has money to burn can't they at least spend it on something half decent which the commercial channels couldn't possibly do, "because of the unique way the BBC is funded" ?

Mind you Burke has a website which talks about the "Knowledge Web", which sounds awfully like the kind of thing a well known spammer in this Parish often spams about.

ps

did anybody see the Weather Show (?) interview a few days ago on News 24 with a BBC Weather producer and Carol thingummy... talk about producer-led "dumbing down" on TV...

Clunes

I saw Martin Clunes on stage in Tartuffe, and he is quite decent actor. However, the point about Leonard Rossiter is that he wasn't a comedian first, he was a serious character actor, with a long career behind him. Only after Perrin did he get more comedy roles (Rising damp, Martini ads...)

It would be better to remake FaRoRP with someone like Robert Carlisle or Christopher Eccleston and let the comedy come from the writing rather than a mugging comedian.

I wonder if Audrey (Sue Nichols) will leave Coro to be Reggie's secretary, Joan, again.

God, there aren't many catch-phrases left, are there...?

Perhaps:

Sorry, slight cock-up on the commisioning front...?

but my favorite was always:

One, two, three, four,

Make 'em wait outside the door!

Five, six, seven, eight,

Always pays to make 'em wait....