{"id":18443,"date":"2013-01-05T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18443"},"modified":"2013-01-05T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:01:44","slug":"bbc-forgets-about-original-bbc-series-asks-for-pilot-of-new-yes-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/05\/bbc-forgets-about-original-bbc-series-asks-for-pilot-of-new-yes-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC forgets about original (BBC) series, asks for pilot of new <em>Yes, Prime Minister<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result, the remake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-20908049\" target=\"_blank\">will not be shown on the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new series of <em>Yes, Prime Minister<\/em> was made for a rival channel because the BBC asked its creators to make a pilot episode, it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Co-writer Jonathan Lynn said the BBC had been given first refusal on the revival out of &#8220;courtesy&#8221;, because it aired the award-winning original.<\/p>\n<p>But he called the request for a test episode &#8220;extraordinary&#8221;, as &#8220;there were 38 pilots available on DVD&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The first new episodes for 25 years will be aired on digital channel Gold.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn told comedy website <em>Chortle<\/em> that the BBC &#8220;said it was policy&#8221; to order a pilot episode before commissioning a full series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we said our policy was to not write a pilot.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The original <em>Yes, Minister<\/em> and <em>Yes, Prime Minister<\/em> tell you more about the actual workings of parliamentary democracy than a full semester undergraduate course. I hope the new series can recapture the magic (if you can call showing the awful workings of government bureaucrats and politicians &#8220;magic&#8221;).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new series was filmed last summer and is based on a recent stage production, which launched in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Digital network Gold said the Rt Hon Jim Hacker would return as the leader of a coalition government, with plots focussing on the economic crisis, a leadership crisis with his coalition partners and a Scottish independence referendum.<\/p>\n<p>David Haig will take the lead role, with Henry Goodman as Sir Humphrey. Both have appeared in the stage version of the show.<\/p>\n<p>They will be joined by Dame Maggie Smith&#8217;s son, Chris Larkin, as Bernard Woolley, and Robbie Coltrane as a guest star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result, the remake will not be shown on the BBC: The new series of Yes, Prime Minister was made for a rival channel because the BBC asked its creators to make a pilot episode, it has emerged. Co-writer Jonathan Lynn said the BBC had been given first refusal on the revival out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,57,28],"tags":[263,458,101],"class_list":["post-18443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-humour","category-media","tag-1970s","tag-parliament","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Nt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18447,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions\/18447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}