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Richard Briers tribute - when?
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Message 1.
Posted by lc_32 (U15627861) on Saturday, 23rd February 2013
Disappointed to see no tribute to Richard Briars this weekend.
Not even a repeat of The Good Life. Surely a tribute must be shown soon? -
Message 2
Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) ** on Saturday, 23rd February 2013
Perhaps out of respect to the family wishes??- we don't know -this is after all a personal grief as well.
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Message 3
Posted by Guv-nor (U7476305) ** on Saturday, 23rd February 2013
Which programme that you were looking forward to watch/ had set your recorder for would you like cancelled/postponed/generally mucked about with?
I expect a tribute will come, but he is hardly cold yet.
PS Richard Briers -
Message 4
Posted by BBC Archives (U10382673) on Saturday, 23rd February 2013
I would think a BBC2 evening of him would be nice, Good life, Monarch of the glen & some other old stuff should fill a saturday evening.
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Message 5
Posted by angelictennisfan (U8898769) on Sunday, 24th February 2013
I would think a BBC2 evening of him would be nice, Good life, Monarch of the glen & some other old stuff should fill a saturday evening. I agree, fishybones. That would be great. I was so shocked to hear of his passing.
My thoughts go to his family and friends. RIP Richard
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Message 6
Posted by Monty Burns (U7868864) on Sunday, 24th February 2013
I would think a BBC2 evening of him would be nice, Good life, Monarch of the glen & some other old stuff should fill a saturday evening
There are a load of Good Life episodes next weekend on GOLD. Perhaps the BBC no longer have the rights to show them. Monarch Of The Glen was on ITV 3 last year so the same thing may apply -
Message 7
Posted by Helen May (U1633128) on Sunday, 24th February 2013
Ever Decreasing Circles is on Gold tomorrow morning and again in the afternoon.
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Message 8
Posted by lc_32 (U15627861) on Monday, 25th February 2013
When someone has created so many hours of TV gold, they are worth mucking up the schedules for.
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Message 9
Posted by Guv-nor (U7476305) ** on Monday, 25th February 2013
And if it is cobbled together in a hurry it will not do him justice and people will miss it because it won't be in the listings.
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Message 10
Posted by Andy (U14048329) on Tuesday, 26th February 2013
And if it is cobbled together in a hurry it will not do him justice and people will miss it because it won't be in the listings. Well precisely. Whats the point of rushing out a tribute that most people won't even know is on?
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Message 11
Posted by lc_32 (U15627861) on Tuesday, 26th February 2013
Totally agree that it shouldn't be rushed out. Just think it would have been a nice mark of respect to show a Good Life episode at the weekend in the traditional BBC2 repeats slot. Then a proper tribute later on.
It never seems to be a problem to change the scheduled programme when there's a football match on... -
Message 12
Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) ** on Tuesday, 26th February 2013
Totally agree that it shouldn't be rushed out. Just think it would have been a nice mark of respect to show a Good Life episode at the weekend in the traditional BBC2 repeats slot. Then a proper tribute later on.
It never seems to be a problem to change the scheduled programme when there's a football match on... You keep going on about this-again without bearing in mind what his family might want-how would you feel if a close relative of your was paraded on the TV screen a few days after their death?
Now- a tribute will no doubt be shown when the time is right. -
Message 13
Posted by sweetspanishfly (U6119839) on Tuesday, 26th February 2013
Keep reading about 'Gold'..How can one see Gold without Sky?
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Message 14
Posted by Monty Burns (U7868864) on Tuesday, 26th February 2013
How can one see Gold without Sky?
it's available from Virgin but I don't know about BT. It's certainly not on Freeview -
Message 15
Posted by minimetto (U1159894) on Tuesday, 26th February 2013
What a pity that it appears we will have to have GOLD to watch Richard Briars tributes.....good thing that most of the programmes are on YouTube.. Come on BBC...I am giving you the benefit of the doubt in the hope that you are lining up a suitable full tribute series so that all Richard's fans can view.
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Message 16
Posted by GusMcGuire (U7223549) on Tuesday, 26th February 2013
You keep going on about this-again without bearing in mind what his family might want-how would you feel if a close relative of your was paraded on the TV screen a few days after their death?
Well if they are subscribers to a satellite or cable company, they'll be lucky to get through a day WITHOUT seeing a programme he's in, so I don't see that the BBC repeating ONE episode of something would be that upsetting.
That said, I would imagine that any formal tribute programme of an actor with such a prolific portfolio as Richard Briers would require contributions from friends and family (I'm sure there are many people with plenty of amusing anecdotes to share) so I would prefer something properly compiled and researched, rather than "just bunged onscreen to get it out of the way". -
Message 17
Posted by judimac (U2467704) on Wednesday, 27th February 2013
Didn't they have the Christmas episode of the Good Life on over Christmas?
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Message 18
Posted by Guv-nor (U7476305) ** on Wednesday, 27th February 2013
Didn't they have the Christmas episode of the Good Life on over Christmas?
December 2011 www.bbc.co.uk/progra... -
Message 19
Posted by 3Dots (U179541) on Wednesday, 27th February 2013
Hopefully, there will be a full evening showing his acting range and there MUST be a few Roobarb and Custard episodes broadcast during evening.
You can;t rush something like this. -
Message 20
Posted by tony ingram (U14880461) on Thursday, 28th February 2013
I would think a BBC2 evening of him would be nice, Good life, Monarch of the glen & some other old stuff should fill a saturday evening
There are a load of Good Life episodes next weekend on GOLD. Perhaps the BBC no longer have the rights to show them. Monarch Of The Glen was on ITV 3 last year so the same thing may apply The BBC owns the programmes it makes. Channels like GOLD licence them, but that doesn't and cannot stop the BBC from showing their own programmes as well, if they want to. -
Message 21
Posted by tony ingram (U14880461) on Thursday, 28th February 2013
What a pity that it appears we will have to have GOLD to watch Richard Briars tributes.....good thing that most of the programmes are on YouTube.. Come on BBC...I am giving you the benefit of the doubt in the hope that you are lining up a suitable full tribute series so that all Richard's fans can view. No offence to Richard Briers but peple die all the time and in recent years we've lost a lot of much loved actors, writers and presenters including Patrick Moore, Gerry Anderson, Clive Dunn and several former Doctor Who girls. Should the BBC be obliged to show tributes to all of them? If so, there'll soon be nothing on TV but tribute programmes. And if not, what makes Richard Briers more worthy of rearranging the schedules for than anyone else?
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Message 22
Posted by Peta (U24) on Thursday, 28th February 2013
It depends on the licence agreement that the BBC have made.
The BBC don't necessarily have the rights to reshow all the programmes that they've made in the past.
Often rights need to be renegotiated, because the original agreed rights won't include the rights to show online, which means for older programmes, they all have to be renegotiated.
Some performers/writers etc. may not want their older works to be shown at all, and if they decline to agree new rights, there's nothing the BBC can do, they just cannot show the programme again.
It's really worth reading/watching the clips on these pages - I'll post a few extracts here
BBC Archive Rights
www.bbc.co.uk/archiv...
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Message 23
Posted by Peta (U24) on Thursday, 28th February 2013
Why can't I have access to the entire BBC archive?
In many ways it would be very nice if we could have the whole archive available. Sadly, that's unlikely to happen because although the BBC owns the rights in the whole programme, we don't necessarily own the rights in all the individual elements that make up that programme. So, for example, someone will write a script for a drama. We might have the rights in that script to do certain things with it - like repeat it or sell it on DVD - but we won't necessarily have the right to make it available as an archive trial for example. -
Message 24
Posted by Peta (U24) on Thursday, 28th February 2013
In broadcasting terms, who has 'rights'?
There's a whole raft of people who have rights associated with the contributions that they make to our programmes - writers, actors, musicians, occasionally cameramen, and directors. They all have rights of one different kind or another. The way in which we reward them for those rights is that sometimes we pay them to do the work and then we pay them again when we repeat it or sell it. In other instances, they have rights where we just make them one payment - what's called a 'buy-out' in the trade, where they get one payment and then we don't pay them again but we can still use their contributions. It's a very mixed economy. -
Message 25
Posted by Peta (U24) on Thursday, 28th February 2013
Do people ever refuse to grant rights?
Sadly this does happen from time to time. I've got quite a lot of experience of it over the last 25 years. And it's not always money. It's not always the fact that someone asks for a huge amount of money. It's actually more often because of an artistic integrity issue. It might be a writer, for example, who's now very well established, writing top-of-the-range content for BBC television, who doesn't really want his public to see again that perhaps rather naive piece of work that he scripted 50 years ago. And he has the right to say no, and we have to respect that right to say no. -
Message 26
Posted by Huckerback (U14411634) ** on Thursday, 28th February 2013
That said, I would imagine that any formal tribute programme of an actor with such a prolific portfolio as Richard Briers would require contributions from friends and family (I'm sure there are many people with plenty of amusing anecdotes to share) so I would prefer something properly compiled and researched, rather than "just bunged onscreen to get it out of the way". I think any contributors to such a programme should want to be involved.
No-one should be pressured into appearing, or criticised for not doing so, just because we may expect it of them. -
Message 27
Posted by tony ingram (U14880461) on Thursday, 28th February 2013
It depends on the licence agreement that the BBC have made.
The BBC don't necessarily have the rights to reshow all the programmes that they've made in the past.
Often rights need to be renegotiated, because the original agreed rights won't include the rights to show online, which means for older programmes, they all have to be renegotiated.
Some performers/writers etc. may not want their older works to be shown at all, and if they decline to agree new rights, there's nothing the BBC can do, they just cannot show the programme again.
It's really worth reading/watching the clips on these pages - I'll post a few extracts here
BBC Archive Rights
www.bbc.co.uk/archiv...
Thanks Peta. I knew some of this, but it's still interesting. The point I was responding to though, was the implication the if another broadcaster was now showing a BBC production, that could in itself prevent the BBC from doing so, which I don't believe is the case. -
Message 28
Posted by Peta (U24) on Thursday, 28th February 2013
No, you're right, not in itself.
The BBC might give the broadcaster exclusive rights to show a programme for a certain duration, in which case the BBC couldn't also show it until the 'exclusive rights' ran out.
I don't know how often that might be the case though. I suspect that broadcasters like Gold might have exclusive rights on some of the older programmes.
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Message 29
Posted by average40 (U14458923) on Monday, 4th March 2013
I watched a couple of episodes yesterday on Gold. Brought back lovely memories of happier times. The quality of the acting, writing and production was superb. Ok the sets were a bit naff and the location shots looked a bit disjointed but compared to some of the rubbish the BBC put out these days this was pure GOLD.
Richard Briers was an excellent actor so believable as Tom, he got his stubbiness just right, he was also fantastic as Martin in EDC and I remember him being ghastly in an episode of Morse.
The two ladies were both so extremely attractive and very sexy in completely different ways but as I remembered and was proved again yesterday the whole show was stolen every episode by the wonderful Paul Eddington's Jerry.
Jerry Ledbetter, every middle aged, middle class man's hero.
What are Bob Larbey and John Esmonde up to these days I wonder? Are they still with us? I think they wrote Please Sir too didn't they?
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Message 30
Posted by lc_32 (U15627861) on Wednesday, 20th March 2013
It's only a discussion - isn't that the point of this page? Many other actors/musicians have been given fitting tributes shortly after their death - in my view it is a mark of respect and acknowledgement of their contribution, and the BBC is usually very good at adopting exactly the right approach.
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Message 31
Posted by Guv-nor (U7476305) ** on Wednesday, 20th March 2013
Disappointed to see no tribute to Richard Briars this weekend.
Not even a repeat of The Good Life. Surely a tribute must be shown soon? Richard Briers: A Tribute
Sat 30 Mar 7pm - 8pm BBC2
Follows an episode of 'The Good Life'
Another episode of TGL is showing
Today 8pm - 8:30pm BBC4
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Message 32
Posted by Peta (U24) on Wednesday, 20th March 2013
Thanks Guv!
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Message 33
Posted by Al (U1158256) on Thursday, 21st March 2013
What are Bob Larbey and John Esmonde up to these days I wonder? Are they still with us? I think they wrote Please Sir too didn't they?
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Message 34
Posted by Baby Dumpling (U14515450) on Friday, 22nd March 2013
Disappointed to see no tribute to Richard Briars this weekend.
Not even a repeat of The Good Life. Surely a tribute must be shown soon? Richard Briers: A Tribute
Sat 30 Mar 7pm - 8pm BBC2
Follows an episode of 'The Good Life'
Another episode of TGL is showing
Today 8pm - 8:30pm BBC4
(NB BBC4) Thank you.
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Message 35
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Message 36
Posted by 4th Dimension Wanderer (U1461416) on Friday, 22nd March 2013
Disappointed to see no tribute to Richard Briars this weekend.
Not even a repeat of The Good Life. Surely a tribute must be shown soon? I'm still waiting on a TV tribute to Jon Pertwee, and he died in 1996.
Doesn't always happen, alas. -
Message 37
Posted by Guv-nor (U7476305) ** on Saturday, 30th March 2013
TODAY
Richard Briers: A Tribute
Sat 30 Mar 7pm - 8pm BBC2 (regional variations)
www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
Also earlier an episode of 'The Good Life'
Sat 30 Mar 18:30 BBC2 (regional variations)
www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
Tomorrow
Ever Decreasing Circles
Sun 31 Mar 18:30 BBC (regional variations)
www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
All About the Good Life
Sun 31 Mar 19:00 BBC2 (regional variations)
www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
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Message 38
Posted by Bidie In (U2747062) on Saturday, 30th March 2013
Bump!
Reminder that the hour long tribute show is on BBC2 today at 7pm.
An episode of The Good Life is being shown at 6.30. -
Message 39
Posted by Bidie In (U2747062) on Saturday, 30th March 2013
What a lovely, heartfelt tribute! Wonderful to see so many clips from Richard's TV back catalogue, as well as his film and stage work.
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Message 40
Posted by LOMF Cat (U10222060) on Saturday, 30th March 2013
Anyone not watching this missed a treat. A quality programme that showed the depth of Richard Briers without being mushy or over sentimental. I too loved seeing the many examples of his work shown.
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Message 41
Posted by Phil-ap (U13637313) on Saturday, 30th March 2013
Anyone not watching this missed a treat. A quality programme that showed the depth of Richard Briers without being mushy or over sentimental. I too loved seeing the many examples of his work shown.
I'd love to see London Assurance on the TV or anything from the National Theatre. Why not? -
Message 42
Posted by shilkman (U13628054) on Sunday, 31st March 2013
Anyone not watching this missed a treat. A quality programme that showed the depth of Richard Briers without being mushy or over sentimental. I too loved seeing the many examples of his work shown.
Indeed it was. Excellent. Well done to all. -
Message 43
Posted by Phil-ap (U13637313) on Sunday, 31st March 2013
It brought home to me how much better Ever Decreasing Circles was than The Good Life.
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Message 44
Posted by Alf Hartigan (U2277114) on Sunday, 31st March 2013
I agree. Maybe it's because The Good Life has been done to death but I loved Ever Decreasing Circles.
Nice to hear the story of Peter Egan and his corpsing. I remember he was always smiling/laughing.
Thought Felicity Kendal's tributes had a slight edge to them whereas Penelope Wilton's were heartfelt. Her last few words were very moving.
"I loved him very much and he was my friend." -
Message 45
Posted by zencat (U14877400) on Sunday, 31st March 2013
It brought home to me how much better Ever Decreasing Circles was than The Good Life.
It brought home to me just how good he was in so many different kinds of drama. I remember his chilling performance in Morse, and it was hard to believe it was the same actor who played Tom Good.
The problem with his character in the Good Life was that he wasn't very likable. I used to wonder how the adorable Felicity Kendal put up with him. Surely, she should have married me! -
Message 46
Posted by Monty Burns (U7868864) on Sunday, 31st March 2013
Nice to hear the story of Peter Egan and his corpsing. I remember he was always smiling/laughing.
We've got Ever Decreasing Circles on DVD and have always commented that Peter Egan looks like he's having a ball and now we know why.
A very enjoyable hour, made even better by the fact they didn't show the old clips in the 4:3 format which I dislike. -
Message 47
Posted by Phil-ap (U13637313) on Sunday, 31st March 2013
Nice to hear the story of Peter Egan and his corpsing. I remember he was always smiling/laughing.
We've got Ever Decreasing Circles on DVD and have always commented that Peter Egan looks like he's having a ball and now we know why.
A very enjoyable hour, made even better by the fact they didn't show the old clips in the 4:3 format which I dislike. They showed the old clips by cutting off the top and bottom of the picture which is fine for clips but not for an entire progamme. -
Message 48
Posted by aviddiva (U13145965) on Sunday, 31st March 2013
Nice to hear the story of Peter Egan and his corpsing. I remember he was always smiling/laughing.
We've got Ever Decreasing Circles on DVD and have always commented that Peter Egan looks like he's having a ball and now we know why.
A very enjoyable hour, made even better by the fact they didn't show the old clips in the 4:3 format which I dislike. They showed the old clips by cutting off the top and bottom of the picture which is fine for clips but not for an entire progamme. I was amazed to see Adrian Scarborough among the interviewees because I'm so used to seeing him as Dawn's husband Pete in 'Gavin & Stacey'! -
Message 49
Posted by the_cleaner (U3423083) on Sunday, 31st March 2013
A Fine Tribute.
Loved the Wind-Break War episode of The Good Life too.
"And you are very womanful."
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