Are you being served.

IMO Porridge was the better of the 2 programmes last night, but then it always was. Last night's Porridge also had the advantage of being written by the original scriptwriters.

Are You Being Served? gave us an excellent portrayal of Mollie Sugden by Sherri Hewson as Mrs Slocombe. The other main characters were also portrayed well. In the original programme the innuendo was always heavy-handed and you could see the punchlines coming from a mile off, so nothing changed there.

I'm looking forward to see whats next

I think Kitty we might have similar tastes in humour

I like the way they moved Porridge into the present day and didn't just try to replicate the original.

I found Are You Being Served cringeworthy but quite enjoyed Porridge.

Like numberplease I prefer to remember the old series so could not watch the latest apart from the minor fact I forgot about it.

Phew, Anya, I thought I was the only one! I thought Porridge was really quite good. Are You Being Served was dire.

The Porridge one was great. He was perfectly believable as Fletch's grandson, even sounded like him occasionally. I really hope this wasn't a one off.

Are You Being Served was as dire as it always was

Victoria was better
Haven't really made up my mind about it though.

Not impressed by either.
Sherri Hewson said these new and rehashed comedies that the BBC are showing this week are pilots and may be made into full series if well received. Not last night's offerings please!

Are you being served was horrible and lacked the charm of the old series. The innuendo was unbearably heavy handed, .........couldn't face Porrige.

Yes, it is never a good idea to 'go back' is it. I thought "Are you being served" was awful, but then I never really liked the original.
Porridge I thought was a good 'take' - the "trickery" was still there. Wonder what the rest will be like, there are some more to come I believe.

Travesty is exactly right word ! ( shudder )

Couldn`t bring myself to watch it, I still have very fond memories of the original.

I expected them both to be dire, and was only half-watching Are You Being Served, but something caught my interest and I actually found myself laughing!

Didn't think Porridge was too bad either, but only as a one-off.

Porridge was awful and turned off after 5mins but I didn't think Are you Being Served was that bad. We did watch to the end some of the jokes were quite funny, its different and meant to be as its now set in the 80s I thought Sherrie Hewson was much better than I expected. We enjoyed it and did laugh out loud a couple of times.

Oh dear had to turn Porridge off , it is even worse

Oh I do agree !!! a travesty