It was well worth watching. I enjoyed every second of it.
Read our Canadian blogger Tvor's review of it here.
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A nice programme, and plenty of clips from the "missing" years, and not just ones that have been shown a hundred times before.
ReplyDelete(I was almost expecting the Ken-Mike-Deirdre love triangle clip to be in there somewhere, as it crops up in just about every Corrie special ever made!)
The only disappointment was that once again, Eileen Derbyshire, who has worked alongside Barbara for all those years, was completely missing from the tributes.
We enjoyed it and nice to see David Nugent from Corrie in the flesh! Just a shame after the first episode how the young Rita gelled with her old pal the young Dennis, the outcome 40 years hence with Dennis dumped for characters like the Nazirs and Maddar! The Alan Bradley scenes reminded us how good it used to be.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely loved it! Barbara and Thelma was a highlight and the Alan/Rita story. And Rita's rivalry with Elsie. Could've been a 2 hour show!
ReplyDeleteLoved it - but also made me sad that the show is a shadow of its former self.
ReplyDeleteLoved it.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful tribute to a great Corrie stalwart.
@ Anon, I don't think the show is a shadow of its former self; it's just that it's moved with the times.
Some of those scenes that were great in the 1970s might look a little quaint playing out on our screens in 2015.
Even Thelma Barlow remarked that some of the clips looked a little dated.
No, Thelma said such comedy wouldn't work today whereas Barbara rightly corrected her that good comedy is timeless. A big difference.
ReplyDeleteI believe that what Thelma meant was that sexual innuendo involving parsnips would not work with a young audience today, which is entirely true. Barbara then delivered a platitude about comedy that had nothing to do with the specifics of the scene Thelma was referring to. They did make a great comedy team, however, back in the day...
ReplyDeleteI don't think comedy is timeless although I respect that Barbara is entitled to her own opinion.
ReplyDeleteSome of the top sitcoms of the past such as Are You being Served? although hilarious in their day now seem dated and terribly unfunny.
You could say the same of many of the top tv comedians of the 1970s and 80s.
Didn't bother watching much of it. First 15 minutes was all I watched. Are we meant to think of her as some great actress and brilliant character? She can't act for toffee and they act like the show can't exist without her. Just adding to her ego.
ReplyDeleteMavis is also unfunny and annoying with her simpering. If she was in it now a lot of people would want her to leave and label her a stupid character.