Play for Today “Never Too Late” 9pm Channel 5

I nearly turned it off after ten minutes but then decided to stick with it. It got better and was a bit over the top, but as a one off episode I enjoyed it.

Just watched the last half hour.

Hope the rest of the series are better than this twaddle.

Cringe factor ! Had to hide behind the sofa !

I enjoyed it. It was quite silly and a bit of fun, a change from the "gritty" and "edgy" drama which I can do without.

I liked it but I’m easy pleased and like Nigel Havers posh voice! I’m a Geordie!will look forward to the next one.

I've just watched it. It was a nice enjoyable watch for a miserable Suday afternoon. I watched their interview on Lorraine and they seemed like good friends making a fun short play. Anita is frighteningly slim.

Enjoyable nonsense.
Anita looks very frail though.

Bit of a letdown after the brilliant original series.

Anita is frighteningly slim

She didn’t look slim, she just looked terribly scraggy, and the clothes she wore didn’t help.

Was she so thin when she was in Eastenders?

Grandma70s

Just boy-meets-girl stuff, but set in an old people’s home/retirement village. Unsympathetic characters.

I love the idea of a play for today, but I didn’t like this one.

Me neither. The site of Anita Dobson's scrawny flesh put me right off her acting. Nigel Havers was a real mess with greasy uncut hair, and yes, probably part of the persona, but not for me either

I was so looking forward to this so I was surprised when I found it was so disappointing.
Like someone said, Nigel Havers looked greasy and unwashed. He looked nothing like the handsome man I remember. Even allowing for the fact that people normally can’t hold onto the looks they had when young, he really did look awful. Anita Dobson was indeed ‘scrawny’. (A brilliant way to describe her, she was far too thin and her neck was turkey-like).
Such a shame that this play didn’t come up to expectations for me. I think that with a better cast it might have been different. Havers and Dobson were not right for this and you’d never guess to look at them, how good they had once been.

The play felt like a rerun selected from the archives of long ago, not funny.

Couldn't stand it. Switched over

Did anyone else watch the next ‘Play For Today?’

I only caught up with it yesterday, about a pensioner couple winning the lottery.

Starring Sue Johnston and the chap who played Daisy’s father-in-law in ‘Downton’, can’t remember his name, he’s in lots of stuff.

Well, if anything, I thought it was worse than the first one, and it was dire.

As she’s got older, Sue J always seems the same, playing an elderly, smartish lady with a constantly bewildered air about her.

They aren’t a patch on the originals, these plays.