The 'flop' accusation is received wisdom - it actually had its moments. Although the main selling point at the time was the cameos from certain Day Today alumni.
I actually really enjoyed it. Even Nele Morrissey was quite good in it.
Was this really on at 9:30pm? There must have been something on the other side, then, because I missed them all. Perhaps it was Red Dwarf reruns...
>I've just been looking for stuff about Linehan and Matthews because it says on Blackstar.co.uk that videos of Series 1 and 2 of Father Ted are now deleted in the UK. I hope this means they'll bring them out again on one tape per series, as they have with series 3.
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I was under the impression that they (whoever owns the copyright/publishing rights/what ever) were going to release all 3 series on DVD this year.
Which lead to an interesting debate about why they released the script book and series3 videos just before xmas.
Wasn't paris repeated not that like ago at about 4 in the morning - good show, as far as i remember.
It annoying about the father ted videos as well - i only had one left to get an' all. But should they must be rereleased soon.
Also why did they release all of the last series on One video? Is the threat of DVD really that strong. Not that i'm complaining, of course...
The late-night repeats were in 1995.
Actually saw the series on its first run. It does exist.
Hard to recall much, but might be worth another look at, just for re-appraisal.
The funniest line came from David Schneider as an austere butler explaining why Alexei Sayle's character's father wasn't around to greet him. "I'm afraid he isn't here at the moment sir - he's just popped out for some fags".
It was the way he said it, obviously.
Lee and Herring made a reference to the show with their Golden Grahams trolley in TMWRNJ (a picture of Graham Linehan was part of the montage - "he's not famous or anything, just a friend of ours - he wrote 'Paris'...")
It annoyed when Linehan & Mathews started referring to Paris as 'shite' (through mouthfuls of sandwich) when Father Ted became a success. It was as good/bad as Big Train, Hippies and Black Books, just less trendy, that's all.
Never saw 'Paris' but 'Black Books' was a fuck of a lot better than 'Hippies'.