Quote: Aaron @ September 24 2009, 3:30 PM BST

One would have thought so, but no. Two of the 1990s' most popular sitcoms - Birds Of A Feather and 2point4 Children - sold so dismally when DVD releases began that the respective companies were extremely close to bankruptcy. (Or so I've been lead to believe.)

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Back in the days when DVDs were a new technology, a venn diagram of the audience for BBC One pre-watershed sitcoms and DVD buyers would not have shown a big overlap. Larger now probably, though a lot of older people still do not really do new media. (Much as when I am in my dotage I shall probably give up on the 3D surround hologram player the grandkids bought for Christmas.)

Oh and Brighton Belles was shit.

Quote: Tim Walker @ September 24 2009, 3:40 PM BST

They must have flogged every moment of Peter Kay's professional career by now on DVD. Cynical barrel-scraping at its most blatant. Phoenix Nights and That Peter Kay Thing were excellent, but the rest of stuff - including his over-rated stand-up - meh!

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The standup collections are terrible. New releases, collections, or 'best of' compilations every freaking year. The most unashamed was his "The Very Best Of Peter Kay Live!" collection in 2007: "Stand-Up UKay".

Going off-tpic I think here.

I vaguely remember this. Who else was in it? Was Wendy Craig in it?

Yep, she was.

I suppose you want me to look it up on yur bloody site don't you!

You haven't got anything on it have you!

So who else was in it?

I doubt we've got a published guide to it yet!

It starred Sheila Hancock, Jean Boht, Wendy Craig and Sheila Gish.

Aaron, I thought I would be nice.

How are you today?

Omg people do remember it, sort of anyway

Who produced it? Any idea what the ratings were?

It was produced by Humphrey Barclay Productions, I suspect "in association with" the British arm of whichever company produced The Golden Girls. The ratings would have been monumentally shocking.

And hello Scottidog, I am ok thanks.