Father Ted spinoff

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YAY or NAY?

If YAY which character?

Sir Arthur Daley

YAY

deadybai

Bishop Brennan

endacl

Nay.

Let it go, OP. Let it go...

frag420

Father Yay...The Seminary Years!

twin_beacon

Pat Mustard

Birneybau

Hells Nay.

chupacabra

Father Stack

iDave

Fr Stone

KungPao

Obviously no, it'd be terrible. Season 3 was shaky...even with the genius DM.

Kiith

A sitcom with Tom, John and Mary, and Father Dick Byrne.

o1s1n

**** no!

Some TV shows only have a few series and they're all the better for it.

Tabnabs

The further adventures of Father Fintan Stack

Lenin Skynard

Nah. The closest we'll ever get is The IT Crowd. For me was like Father Ted mark II. Similar style, same humour, same absurdity.

Linehan seems to have gone off the boil since then. That thing he made last year, "The Walshes" was absolute ****e.

humanji

The Walshes wasn't really him, though. He was helping a comedy troupe with their show. I think it was the same with the Count Arthur Strong show.

Lenin Skynard

humanji wrote: »

The Walshes wasn't really him, though. He was helping a comedy troupe with their show. I think it was the same with the Count Arthur Strong show.

Ah fair enough. They promoted it like as if he was producing it.

dodderangler

o1s1n wrote: »

**** no!

Some TV shows only have a few series and they're all the better for it.

True. For the very short series it's still something I'd watch over and over again

Pumpkinseeds

No, it's had it's day, let it die a natural death.

Bydlo

Father Damo but he's now a secular rapist and its no longer a comedy. Same director as did Luther

Buona Fortuna

o1s1n wrote: »

**** no!

Some TV shows only have a few series and they're all the better for it.

Agreed

- as much as I loved the heady days of the mid 90s
- as much as Dermot's death was premature
- you couldn't spoof the church now
- in Ted the worst things were Jacks alcoholism; Dougal's atheism; Ted's shady deals; Brennan's secrety family
- Now - FFS make a joke out of now :eek:

It BeeMee

The Rise and Fall of Henry Sellers

The RSA could employ Fr Larry Duff to make a series of ads about the distraction caused by mobile phones.

bucketybuck

Where is the NAY option?

gugleguy

Ms Doye only.

Fr Jack dead
Fr Dougal :foyle to Fr Ted Bishop Brennan etc. whoever.

here’s gugleguy’s suggestion for such show as a spinoff:

Fr Ted’s ghost / Fr Jack’s /Fr Dougals ghost appear like Obi Wan Kenobi ’s ghost in Star Wars movie return of the Jedi. etc.

KungPao

dodderangler wrote: »

True. For the very short series it's still something I'd watch over and over again

Like Fawlty Towers.

For some shows I think it's interesting to see the characters grow and age. Only Fools and Horses for example, which even changed a main character and added new permanent ones. They did make three episodes too many in the end though...which I like to pretend never happened - pretty awful they were.

I can't imagine Father Ted or Fawlty Towers being interesting in that way. It was a specific setup that didn't change. It burned bright and went out quickly.

The IT Crowd is very overrated though, I must say. Sometimes it is painfully unfunny. Chris Morris was hilarious as usual though.

Dougal goes to London to try sell Simon Cowell on the idea of 'My Lovely Horse' as a top 10 single, people mistake his clean slate of a mind for pared-down creative genius and he becomes a media darling, eventually becoming head of Children's Programming at the BBC, based on his own preferences and ideas.

He's not capable of living independently, so he's looked after in a Knightsbridge flat by Mrs Doyle, who has a part time job as a tea lady in the BBC offices and is the power behind the throne.

Hilarity ensues.

KungPao

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Agreed
- as much as I loved the heady days of the mid 90s
- as much as Dermot's death was premature
- you couldn't spoof the church now
- in Ted the worst things were Jacks alcoholism; Dougal's atheism; Ted's shady deals; Brennan's secrety family
- Now - FFS make a joke out of now

The Bishop Casey nod, that was very funny.

Didn't the Sinead O'Connor parody feminist with a mid-Atlantic accent make a reference to Craggy Island perhaps being a hideaway for paedophile priests?

KungPao

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Jacks alcoholism; Dougal's atheism; Ted's shady deals; Brennan's secrety family

Reading these back makes me laugh! (my first example is a little creepy but...)

An old lecherous Alcoholic priest who likes school girls.

A simple-minded priest who thinks Religion is all made up.

A priest who steals money from a charity for sick kids to go to Lourdes, then goes to Vegas.

A powerful bishop riding some woman in America - has a kid and all.

Then you had Father Hernandez from Cuba, who seems to enjoy riding women non-stop.

Great characters!

fleet_admiral

As much as I think it should be left alone to retire peacefully I would literally collapse with joy if it was announced there was a hidden episode or even deleted scenes

VinLieger

Is the op an american tv network exec?

biko

So many great characters. I always wondered how Father Damien "Damo" Lennon became a priest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hhWqkq2bc0

fryup

Bishop brennan promoted as cardinal of ireland would have been a hoot!

Putin

KungPao wrote: »

The IT Crowd is very overrated though, I must say. Sometimes it is painfully unfunny. Chris Morris was hilarious as usual though.

A show that's so painfully unfunny to watch, I'd find it funnier removing my own toe nails.

Foxhound38

Tabnabs wrote: »

The further adventures of Father Fintan Stack

I heard he was Health Minister recently :pac:

Summer wind

That would be an ecumenical matter!

Myrddin

I think a spin off centering around Ronaldo the Hamster has potential. The things a hamster could get up to on Craggy Island...

Muff_Daddy

KungPao wrote: »

Obviously no, it'd be terrible. Season 3 was shaky...even with the genius DM.

People say that, but the first 3 episodes of that season are the funniest in the entire run IMO.

ringadingding

This is how only fools and horses got ruined.

The later seasons and Christmas specials were awful.

Spin off with boycey was pure muck.

Leave it be, like fawlty towers

AllGunsBlazing

Always thought Dylan Moran would make a pretty good version of a young Father Jack.

baldbear

No way. Leave it as it was , a masterpiece of comedy ya dirty decker ya.

Muff_Daddy

Isn't/Wasn't there plans to make an American remake of Fr Ted ala The Office?

Or was that just a really bad dream I had.

Kidchameleon

fleet_admiral wrote: »

As much as I think it should be left alone to retire peacefully I would literally collapse with joy if it was announced there was a hidden episode or even deleted scenes

*Ted Dougal and Mrs Doyle appeared in character at an awards show to present an award.

*Unique scenes were shot for promotional purposes. I know one of them featured dougal in his matador costume.

*A scene of ted standing on a ledge about to jump off at the end of season 3 was shot. Instead there is a montage.

shuffles88

Nay. I know that this is hypothetical but Graham Linehan has said that with all of the revelations of abuse in the church since Father Ted was made that he couldn't make such light-hearted jokes about it now. The great thing about Father Ted is that it captured the Zeitgeist of the time in which it was made, that weird transitionary period that we went through in the mid-nineties was the perfect setting for it. Don't mess with perfection.

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shuffles88 wrote: »

Nay. I know that this is hypothetical but Graham Linehan has said that with all of the revelations of abuse in the church since Father Ted was made that he couldn't make such light-hearted jokes about it now. The great thing about Father Ted is that it captured the Zeitgeist of the time in which it was made, that weird transitionary period that we went through in the mid-nineties was the perfect setting for it. Don't mess with perfection.

They're not all like that.
Say there's 200 million priests and 5% of them are paedophiles.
That's still only ten million.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Spinoffs can be very dodgy, for every Frasier you have a Joey.

Balmed Out

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Always thought Dylan Moran would make a pretty good version of a young Father Jack.

This is what id like to see. A young fr jack during the 60's with the church at its height of power and corruption. Dylan Moran would be excellent though the wounds may yet be a bit tender.

Adamantium

Balmed Out wrote: »

This is what id like to see. A young fr jack during the 60's with the church at its height of power and corruption. Dylan Moran would be excellent though the wounds may yet be a bit tender.

Christ, I've never heard an idea more perfect. :eek:

Son Of A Vidic

Chris___ wrote: »

YAY or NAY?

No.

RayM

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

Nah. The closest we'll ever get is The IT Crowd. For me was like Father Ted mark II. Similar style, same humour, same absurdity.

Linehan seems to have gone off the boil since then. That thing he made last year, "The Walshes" was absolute ****e.

I thought The Walshes was excellent. It reminded me of Father Ted, in that it took me a while, and a few re-watches to really 'get' it, as opposed to just finding the characters annoying. Anyone who didn't like it - I'd advise them to track it down somewhere and watch it again. It's a lot better than it initially seems. Contains a lot of Ted-esque moments too.

I remember, back in 1995, finding Father Jack and Mrs Doyle seriously tedious.

Deathwish4

Father Ted has aged badly. Best leave it be.

Akrasia

Deathwish4 wrote: »

Father Ted has aged badly. Best leave it be.

This is the only time I have ever supported the blasphemy legislation...

Lawyers!! get him!

fleet_admiral

Kidchameleon wrote: »

*Ted Dougal and Mrs Doyle appeared in character at an awards show to present an award.

*Unique scenes were shot for promotional purposes. I know one of them featured dougal in his matador costume.

*A scene of ted standing on a ledge about to jump off at the end of season 3 was shot. Instead there is a montage.

Yeah they changed the ending as a result of Dermot Morgans death. The matador costume was in the xmas special
They also did some children in need segments