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Prison may seem an odd place to set a sitcom. In fact, Porridge expert Richard Weight says the producers originally worried it wouldn’t work. They needn’t have been concerned.
Sep 3, 2024 · Porridge, Ronnie Barker and Fletch: the prison sitcom 50 years on - BBC. How Porridge found laughs in a hopeless place. Ronnie Barker's character Norman Stanley Fletcher thrived on beating the...
Jun 5, 2024 · Imagine setting a television sitcom in today’s run-down, overcrowded British prisons. A non-starter or maybe the darkest of black comedies? Half a century ago, while the UK lurched from one economic crisis to another, BBC Television was considering whether to make what became Porridge .
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Topically, as we reassess whether child offenders should have the right to anonymity after serving time for violent crimes, Haggard says she was also interested in looking back at being a young adult: “I’m also really interested in our youth, things that could have gone wrong when you were 18 or 19 that age, it’s quite an intoxifing age and time in...
It’s inevitable that the show – and Haggard as a female comedy writer, who has also starred in Episodes, Psychoville and Uncle – will be compared to Fleabag and its creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, especially as Back To Lifewill be broadcast in the same slot on BBC One on Monday nights now, and is made by the same producers, Two Brothers. “Fleabag ha...
Jul 2, 2022 · Unsurprisingly, many prison-centric shows are dramas and not for audiences seeking lighter fare. They cater to the dark stories of criminals who are just as dangerous in captivity and the loss of hope and humanity some of these inmates feel.
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Aug 8, 2023 · From slapstick sitcoms to edgy thrillers to dense dramas, the prison premise offers tons of potential despite limited space. Writers are confined to a single location and must focus on a cast of criminal characters who are stuck there, and yet it's a location rife with conflict, corruption, and morality plays.
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The sitcom focuses on two prison inmates, Norman Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. The show's title is a 1950s British slang term for a prison sentence, derived from the traditional breakfast that used to be served in British prisons.
