Father Ted spinoff

Grab All Association · 26-09-2014 12:09PM #1

YAY or NAY?

If YAY which character?

Sir Arthur Daley · 26-09-2014 12:10PM

YAY

deadybai · 26-09-2014 12:10PM

Bishop Brennan

endacl · 26-09-2014 12:10PM

Nay.

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

frag420 · 26-09-2014 12:10PM

Father Yay...The Seminary Years!

twin_beacon · 26-09-2014 12:10PM

Pat Mustard

Birneybau · 26-09-2014 12:10PM

Hells Nay.

chupacabra · 26-09-2014 12:11PM

Father Stack

iDave · 26-09-2014 12:11PM

Fr Stone

KungPao · 26-09-2014 12:12PM

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

Kiith · 26-09-2014 12:13PM

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

o1s1n · 26-09-2014 12:14PM

**** no!

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

Tabnabs · 26-09-2014 12:15PM

The further adventures of Father Fintan Stack

Lenin Skynard · 26-09-2014 12:15PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:16PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:18PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:18PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:20PM

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

Bydlo · 26-09-2014 12:21PM

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

Buona Fortuna · 26-09-2014 12:23PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:24PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:24PM

Where is the NAY option?

gugleguy · 26-09-2014 12:25PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:26PM

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.

26-09-2014 12:28PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:29PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:43PM

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 · 26-09-2014 12:56PM

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