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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 102868" data-attributes="member: 23">The Conversation With Geoffrey Palmer was quite charming. It&#039;s a bit of a risk learning more about someone who I&#039;ve watched for decades without knowing very much about, but it was worth the risk in this case. He was disarmingly frank and clearly very self-aware as well as knowing much about the world of the sitcom. He covered the creation of the show, too, which was fascinating. I found it interesting to learn that it came out of a theatrical group he was involved with and that he hadn&#039;t worked with Judi Dench before this. In his no-nonsense way, he regaled how in the weeks before he met Judi, everyone he encountered who knew her was telling him how wonderful she was and that he&#039;d love her - to the point that he got sick of hearing her name. As he conceded, they were right. He had nothing but praise for Bob Larbey. Having thoroughly enjoyed a few Larbey-penned series recently I can understand why. I have another series of his in mind to watch in the near future. His approach to the business seems very grounded and healthy. It was good to hear a little about his other roles - Ben in Butterflies got mentioned more than once. He seemed genuinely perplexed by the success of the series in America because of how terribly British As Time Goes By is and because of the age of the cast. The Britishness, I suspect, is a large part of the appeal in that regard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 102868, member: 23"] The Conversation With Geoffrey Palmer was quite charming. It's a bit of a risk learning more about someone who I've watched for decades without knowing very much about, but it was worth the risk in this case. He was disarmingly frank and clearly very self-aware as well as knowing much about the world of the sitcom. He covered the creation of the show, too, which was fascinating. I found it interesting to learn that it came out of a theatrical group he was involved with and that he hadn't worked with Judi Dench before this. In his no-nonsense way, he regaled how in the weeks before he met Judi, everyone he encountered who knew her was telling him how wonderful she was and that he'd love her - to the point that he got sick of hearing her name. As he conceded, they were right. He had nothing but praise for Bob Larbey. Having thoroughly enjoyed a few Larbey-penned series recently I can understand why. I have another series of his in mind to watch in the near future. His approach to the business seems very grounded and healthy. It was good to hear a little about his other roles - Ben in [I]Butterflies[/I] got mentioned more than once. He seemed genuinely perplexed by the success of the series in America because of how terribly British [I]As Time Goes By[/I] is and because of the age of the cast. The Britishness, I suspect, is a large part of the appeal in that regard. [/QUOTE]

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