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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 440492" data-attributes="member: 23">Excellent point.Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of a couple of those scriptwriting sessions. I do wonder which parts were written by which person.That&#039;s understandable. To me it&#039;s always felt unmistakably Eighties, in part because I watched it then, but also because there are actors who are very much of that era (even though many went on to other things, seeing them at this age always evokes the Eighties to me).The first season does have some things going for it, and there is an arc running through the first series that kind of makes it worthwhile. But yes, it definitely finds its feet from the second year onwards. It&#039;s actually considered a sport by some, and I believe the record holder for the longest-held gurn is American. Not to worry. I&#039;ll be here whenever. I&#039;m glad it&#039;s just not me. I&#039;ve never watched a second of Hotel Babylon, but it strikes me of one of those flashes in the pan that nobody would remember today. I don&#039;t even know if it was all that big even then. Yes. All the &quot;replacement&quot; staff are from well-known BBC sitcoms, such as Are You Being Served? &#039;Allo &#039;Allo, Hi-de-Hi! and Birds Of A Feather. The music accompanying each of their arrivals was the theme tune to their respective show. The exception was the final arrival (&quot;I bet you don&#039;t get that at the Dorchester&quot;) who was an actor from long-running (and much maligned)&nbsp; British soap Crossroads, which had been set around a family-run motel. Before AbFab, June Whitfield was known for her sitcom partnership with Terry Scott. They played a married couple in Happy Ever After and the very similar follow-up Terry and June through the Seventies and into the late-Eighties. In its day it was popular enough but was viewed with embarrassment by the BBC who saw it as a symbol of dated sitcoms that were unfashionably twee and safe (this was the era of alternative comedy). I always found them enjoyable enough. 
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[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 440492, member: 23"] Excellent point. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of a couple of those scriptwriting sessions. I do wonder which parts were written by which person. That's understandable. To me it's always felt unmistakably Eighties, in part because I watched it then, but also because there are actors who are very much of that era (even though many went on to other things, seeing them at this age always evokes the Eighties to me). The first season does have some things going for it, and there is an arc running through the first series that kind of makes it worthwhile. But yes, it definitely finds its feet from the second year onwards. It's actually considered a sport by some, and I believe the record holder for the longest-held gurn is American. Not to worry. I'll be here whenever. I'm glad it's just not me. I've never watched a second of [I]Hotel Babylon,[/I] but it strikes me of one of those flashes in the pan that nobody would remember today. I don't even know if it was all that big even then. Yes. All the "replacement" staff are from well-known BBC sitcoms, such as [I]Are You Being Served? 'Allo 'Allo, Hi-de-Hi! [/I]and[I] Birds Of A Feather. [/I]The music accompanying each of their arrivals was the theme tune to their respective show. The exception was the final arrival ("I bet you don't get that at the Dorchester") who was an actor from long-running (and much maligned) British soap Crossroads, which had been set around a family-run motel. Before [I]AbFab[/I], June Whitfield was known for her sitcom partnership with Terry Scott. They played a married couple in [I]Happy Ever After[/I] and the very similar follow-up [I]Terry and June [/I]through the Seventies and into the late-Eighties.[I] [/I]In its day it was popular enough but was viewed with embarrassment by the BBC who saw it as a symbol of dated sitcoms that were unfashionably twee and safe (this was the era of alternative comedy). I always found them enjoyable enough. [CENTER] [MEDIA=youtube]myYPRmgBaaE[/MEDIA][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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