Father Ted Night - starts at 9pm on Channel 4

Basq

Just a reminder..

It runs from 9pm - 11.50pm tonight on Channel 4 (or add on hour for +1) and consists of the following:

9.00pm - Father Ted Night (Introduction)
9.05pm - Unintelligent Design (Interview with Graham Linehan & Arthur Matthews)
9.35pm - Viewers Favourite Episode
10.05pm - Small Far Away (Documentary as the cast, creators and crew go back to Craggy Island)
11.15pm - Writers Favourite Episode

It'll be odd to see Linehan and Matthews together again!

Dman001

So this is all new material, and not material from the recent DVD re-release boxset?

RayM

The documentaries are brand new. The first one, Unintelligent Design, wasn't great. I thought it seemed a bit rushed or something. Small Far Away was brilliant though. It was made by the same guy who produced RTE's Graham Linehan documentary a few years ago.

Snake Plisken

Jesus Pauline Mclynn would want to lighten up seeing as she wouldn't appear in the Small Far Away documentary doesn't she realise she was part of a show that is a comedy classic?
Great documentary would have loved to see more of the outtakes with Dermot, actually they should have included that RTE documentary about Dermot it would have completed the night for me.

Skid

I only caught 'Small Far away', really enjoyed it.

Lovely bit of nostalgia, without relying too much on clips.

Graham Linehan is always funny, his directors commentaries are worth buying the DVDs for alone.

Bit churlish of Pauline McLynn not to turn up. She did very well out of Ted, including doing adverts for the UK Revenue Commissioners as Mrs. Doyle.

Gingy

I really enjoyed the documentaries. The rip off of the 70's video was class;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLiTkF1XvF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg

KeanSeenan

There was a song used in it that's been annoying me. It was just after Graham was talking about not appreciating the beauty of nature at the time, was all the music used in it from Hannon?

ashyle

The second doc was very entertaining, loved Graham's hurt at the little girl's "I don't get it!", had me in stitches.

Frank Kelly is such a gent, I love seeing him

fryup

can't believe that speed 3 was voted no1 episode, imo it should have been Hell you know the episode where they go on holiday in the caravan

ricero

very good show small, far away was great to see past moments from the best comedy show ever. it made me feel a bit sad near the end knowing dermot morgan is dead very sad he looked such a nice man

quickg

Really enjoyed last night's show. Very poignant and sad to see the cast returning to Clare and the obvious gaping absence of the late great Dermot Morgan.

One thing I found disappointing...did the producers think that no one would notice or care that they could not be bothered to find a Ford Cortina? No one expected them to resurrect the original car (considering the state it was in back then)...but to try and fool the audience with an obviously different car ...a Ford Granada!!!
They would have been better off leaving that segment out.

Otherwise a very enjoyable and nostalgic few hours telly.

ScrubsfanChris

Great doc.
For anyone who missed it:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/father-ted/4od#3150032

D-Generate

What was the writer's favourite episode?

I thought the documentary was excellent and had right amount of laughs and poignant reflection. I was a bit surprised Pauline McLynn didn't return though although I understand she might want to move on from her days of Father Ted.

Snake Plisken

D-Generate wrote: »

What was the writer's favourite episode?

I thought the documentary was excellent and had right amount of laughs and poignant reflection. I was a bit surprised Pauline McLynn didn't return though although I understand she might want to move on from her days of Father Ted.

Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse

jill_valentine

D-Generate wrote: »

I was a bit surprised Pauline McLynn didn't return though although I understand she might want to move on from her days of Father Ted.

That's what I found surprising - I understand somebody wanting to move away from a show so closely associated with them, but surely that would have been a good way to draw a line under it with the Ted-watching audience.

RayM

quickg wrote: »

One thing I found disappointing...did the producers think that no one would notice or care that they could not be bothered to find a Ford Cortina? No one expected them to resurrect the original car (considering the state it was in back then)...but to try and fool the audience with an obviously different car ...a Ford Granada!!!
They would have been better off leaving that segment out.

To the untrained eye, the Cortina and Granada look very similar (almost identical from the front). I doubt that too many people would have noticed it. I thought it was a nice touch and didn't feel 'fooled'.

According to her blog, Pauline McLynn would have found participating in the documentary without Dermot Morgan or Geoffrey Perkins too sad. Which is understandable enough.