Rock'n'Chips: Only Fools and Horses prequel

scorza · 26 Jan 2010 at 13:10

Anyone see this? I didn't see any trailers for it but my colleague mentioned it was shown on Sunday night so I watched it on the iPlayer last night.

Thought it wasn't bad considering it could have been a disaster. No canned laughter which pleased me and fitted in with the quite gritty setting which touched upon themes of domestic violence, drugs and working-class poverty in the 60s. The lad who plays Del Boy is excellent (Jay from The Inbetweeners), as was Phil Daniels as "Grandad". Quite funny in parts too. Only thing I didn't buy was Nicholas Lyndhurst as an east-end villain, but other than that, I hope they turn this into a full blown series.

vintage-x · 26 Jan 2010 at 13:15

I watched it last night on iplayer as well. I liked it. I would have preferred canned laughter though would have made it feel more like only fools.

Trigger was great as well lol

PermaBanned · 26 Jan 2010 at 17:37

vintage-x said:
I watched it last night on iplayer as well. I liked it. I would have preferred canned laughter though would have made it feel more like only fools.

Trigger was great as well lol

Did it even have canned laughter to begin with? It's been added to almost everything, i'm sick of it to be honest.

Quint · 26 Jan 2010 at 18:07

Load of rubbish imo, very disappointing.

Firestar_3x · 26 Jan 2010 at 19:49

Better than expected and i'm a huge Only Fools fan.

Noel Gallagher · 26 Jan 2010 at 19:50

As a huge fan of of&h, i have gotta watch this!

joey1211 · 26 Jan 2010 at 19:51

Thought that 'Only Fools' had been flogged to earth and avoided it for this reason

Tom0 · 26 Jan 2010 at 21:29

I enjoyed it, as said in this threads prequel;

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18106451

Madkjb · 27 Jan 2010 at 09:50

It was average at best, couple of good lines and scenes but it just didnt seem to know what it was doing. It felt too much like a drama which made it very stiff. One of my mates from school played a part in it so that was the highlight for me haha. Didnt know he was in it and he just popped up.

stoofa · 27 Jan 2010 at 11:23

Nowhere was this billed as a comedy.
Every pre-showing interview with any cast member described this as more drama than comedy.
So of course there weren't the laughts there - it wasn't supposed to have them.

Slogan · 27 Jan 2010 at 11:29

stoofa said:
So of course there weren't the laughts there - it wasn't supposed to have them.

Just because it didn't have a laugh track or a live audience didn't mean there was no comedy intended to be in it. Unless you literally mean no laughs as in...no laughs.

I thought it was stale to be honest and the comedy that was in there was a bit silly and pretty predictable at the best of times.

stoofa · 27 Jan 2010 at 13:00

No, what I'm saying is that it was made as a drama with a few comedy moments/lines.
It was not supposed to be out and out funny.

johnny6 · 27 Jan 2010 at 13:53

Or maybe after completing the show, watching it back and realising it wasn't that funny they made the decision to rebrand it as a drama.

Quint · 27 Jan 2010 at 19:05

It was a comedy drama although it listed on bbc iplay under the catagories Comedy, Sitcoms.

It was like a bad episode of heartbeat, which I haven't watched for years btw.

^TANK^ · 27 Jan 2010 at 19:10

Firestar_3x said:
Better than expected and i'm a huge Only Fools fan.

This.

I hope thay do a series.

SkeeterUK · 27 Jan 2010 at 19:28

Liked it tho at beginning i thought meh but it grew on me. I hope its a long series and lots of cos sick of short 6 ep series or whatever that the bbc do i.e auf weirdersien pet. Should have been more than just 6 per season.

mit1 · 27 Jan 2010 at 19:37

I realy enjoyed it, definatley worth a watch.

Steve2000 · 27 Jan 2010 at 23:27

Seems the BBC are in a phase of reviving old programmes with god-awful sequels/prequels that usually aren't even worth mentioning in the same sentence as the originals. Auf Wiedersehen, Royle Family etc.

But Only Fools, it just keeps coming back time and time again. It had a perfect ending in 1996, but no, they had to go and bring them back for one last outing didn't they. As usual, they ruined it. And now this, talk about flogging a dead horse.

SkeeterUK · 27 Jan 2010 at 23:58

Duno like, i like the old fashioned style of it all. Somit i really like watching. Characters are ok, defo not like originals but given time they could evolve like most characters do. I thought they did a good idea with freddy the flog so we finally see what all the fuss was about from OFAH.

SkeeterUK · 31 Jan 2010 at 13:18

Was it a one off special cos i thought it was a new series and what was shown was episode 1 or 1&2 combo.

was lookin forward to this weeks ep but cant see it listed.