when Armando Iannucci took the Alan Partridge series Mid Morning Matters to the BBC they said “could we take it outside? It’s too contained in that radio studio”
Hmmm, they might have been right about that though?
The point being that the BBC failed to grasp the concept of the show or believe it would be enjoyed by a large audience. They missed the point and misjudged it if Sky Atlantic’s viewing figures for the show are to be believed. I’m trying not to dwell on the fact that in my opinion Mid Morning Matters is a beautifully observed, written and crafted piece of television with still one of the greatest characters ever to be created and Mrs Browns Boys is 1970s camp nonsense whereby expletives have been mistaken for comedic gems.
I appreciate that Mrs Browns Boys suniversally popular and that in itself is justification enough for its existence but the BBC seem to becoming fearful of commissioning anything challenging, satirical or different in terms of its conventions.