BBC replace My Family with shocking homosexual sitcom

Uncle Monty

My Gay Dads?

Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:14 by Tim Chipping

Daily Mail readers will have spewed All-Bran this morning with the news that the BBC is to place a new sitcom about two gay men who love each other, in the slot previously occupied by cosy chuckle-fest My Family. And it’s got the same actor in it! Cover the vicar’s eyes...

George And Bernard Shaw (hmm) will star Robert Lindsay and the always brilliant Richard Griffiths in what’s being described as a “quirky and warm comedy about a gay couple”, with filming on the pilot set to start this Autumn.

This follows the Beeb’s decision to axe the long running My Family, presumably after its writers finally ran out of scenarios where one of them could bring an unsuitable boyfriend home or the dad/dentist could slightly embarrass them with a social faux pas.

It’s basically going to be this, isn’t it?

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@clee984 I'm hoping the Beeb are being coy and it really is a spin-off about how Uncle Monty has settled down and married. And they have an allotment. And every now and then, Withnail pops buy to borrow money. Only now, he's played by Nicolas Lyndhurst.
Tim Chipping Mon, 08/08/2011 - 15:31
"I can never touch meat until it's cooked. As a youth I used to weep in butcher's shops."

"You must admit there is something je ne sais quoi, oh so very special, about a firm, young carrot."

If they had Richard Griffiths just saying those two lines over and over, I'd watch it.
clee984 Mon, 08/08/2011 - 14:11
I'd prefer a show about me having my eyes gouged out than have any more of that fucking atrocious My Family produced.

Who were the cunts watching it to warrant so many of them being made?
bigfella Mon, 08/08/2011 - 13:20

I'd prefer a show about me having my eyes gouged out than have any more of that fucking atrocious My Family produced.

Who were the cunts watching it to warrant so many of them being made?
bigfella Mon, 08/08/2011 - 13:20
"I can never touch meat until it's cooked. As a youth I used to weep in butcher's shops."

"You must admit there is something je ne sais quoi, oh so very special, about a firm, young carrot."

If they had Richard Griffiths just saying those two lines over and over, I'd watch it.
clee984 Mon, 08/08/2011 - 14:11
@clee984 I'm hoping the Beeb are being coy and it really is a spin-off about how Uncle Monty has settled down and married. And they have an allotment. And every now and then, Withnail pops buy to borrow money. Only now, he's played by Nicolas Lyndhurst.
Tim Chipping Mon, 08/08/2011 - 15:31