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When the Whistle Blows

posted 8 years ago by HarveyManfredSinJohn
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Does anyone else think that Gervais should make this his next TV project?

It would be wonderfully meta. And if "Mrs Brown's Boys" can be voted 'best sitcom of the 21st century" (), imagine how successful WTWB could be.

It would appeal unironically to all the Mrs Brown's Boys fans, whilst also providing a perverse kind of entertainment to those people who know Gervais is taking the piss out of such lowest-common-denominator shows. Plus, he's could be as outrageous and offensive as he likes because it's all being done ironically. In fact the mission would be to make the show as awful as possible.

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[–] alloneword950-948-598356 8 years ago

Hasn't it already being done? I always felt that WTWB was based on Dinnerladies, the Victoria Wood comedy. To be fair I was never a fan of Victoria Wood, but regardless, I found Dinnerladies to be dire.
Or maybe Gervais was thinking of The Thin Blue Line? Rowan Atkinson has had a pretty stellar career, hes a fantastic comedian, but again that sitcom, for me, was truly awful.
Both, I think, are examples of just pointless, dull and dreary sitcoms that seem to have some mysterious success on the BBC. I really struggle to imagine anyone actually enjoying them, but they do. Dinnerladies in particular was popular, if I remember rightly.

[–] mail-81278 8 years ago

That would be about the level of Gervais' output these days, unfortunately. He's been desperately unfunny for years. And that's coming from someone who listens to his XFM and podcast stuff almost every night. The ego went through the roof and the quality went down the toilet. If anyone says they don't like, say, Derek, he berates them for not getting it when it just wasn't funny.