Only Fools & Horses

[Chris_2k11]

I think they should start showing this on BBC1 again! It was such a brilliant program. There's loads of good comedies they could start repeating again! I know we've seen them all before, but I love to watch them again! :D Anyone agree?!

[CrazyLea]

Ohh I agree!! I love only fools and horses, Delboy :rotfl: !!! Definately could do with something like that on now.. cause the tv kinda crap lately! Although if you have UKTV gold then you can watch the repeats??

[Dr. Tangliss]

Agreed, it's a fab programme. However, if you have cable/Sky, you can see it lots on UKTV Gold.:cheer:

[alan45]

They have only recently stopped showing it on BBC1 on a Friday Night

[Richie_lecturer]

Indeed. No need to repeat it again in a hurry, great as it was.

[dddMac1]

that is a classic comedy hope they show it again on the BBC

[Gadders]

i agree with you all. as i love the programme. and it would be nice to be able to watch the programme on the channel 1 as i dont ave sky and cant watch it on uk gold. i have seen most of the episodes and still laugh at the ones that i have seen. bbc should put it back on.

[Behemoth]

I love OFAH!

I was just watching it last night; the one where Rodney and Del have to look after Marlene and Boycie's dog - oh, the hilarity!

Del - "Apparently, Dukie is comatose."
Rodney - "Yeah? Well funnily enough, I thought that when I saw him spark out in the back of the van."
Del - "Well you'd be right, Rodney wouldn't yeh. Y'see, with the comatose, I think sleep is the best thing for him."
Rodney - "Yeah...rest, rest and more rest, eh?"

[Chloe O'brien]

I'm miss seeing OFAH on Christmas day. They should show the repeats back on the bbc.

[Perdita]

An Only Fools and Horses fanatic has built a funeral hearse modelled on the Trotters' yellow Reliant Robin in the show.

Businessman Darren Abey is hoping to emulate Del Boy by making himself a millionaire from the venture, titled 'Only Fools and Hearses'.

"People are going to be blown away by the hearse - it's an absolute show stopper,' Abey told the Daily Mail.

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"I've spent the last six months turning it into a five star luxury vehicle, complete with new carpets and leopard print fake fur on the dashboard.

"As far as I know it's the only one of its kind in the world. I'm sure Del Boy and Rodney would love it."

The 45-year-old, who plans on charging between £500 and £1,000 for the vehicle's services, also revealed that the cars cost £8,000 to transform.

"I got two scrap cars, both three-wheelers, which weren't worth anything and only useful for their fibreglass parts," Abey added. "We stripped and gutted them and cut up the vehicle to stretch it to a length of 8 feet 8 inches, so we had a stretched three-wheeler that would be suitable to use as the trailer.

"I'm hoping I'll be so busy with rentals that I'll have to build another hearse to keep up with demand. I'm sure the Trotters would be very impressed - Del Boy might even let Raquel borrow it!"

[lizann]

I just read this will be remade for the US, I cant how that will work

[Perdita]

Sir David Jason has suggested that the American remake of Only Fools and Horses won't work.

The 71-year-old actor, famous for playing Del Boy in the classic BBC sitcom, believes that the original London setting is intrinsic to its success.

"They can do brilliant comedy [in America] but I don't see that they can bring off Fools and Horses," he told BBC News.

"I don't see that it will travel across the pond. It might work but you've got to change it so much that, in the change, in order to Americanise it, do you lose the whole concept of the piece?"

Jason went on: "The language will have to change so much and there will be so many parts of the storyline you have to change.

"It's so London and so British, [in] its humour, that you wonder. It's London based and it took quite a long time for the rest of the country to catch up with the phrases.

"I have no idea what the American equivalent of 'plonker' is, for example. Or 'dipstick'."

Scrubs writers Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley are said to be adapting the show for US network ABC.

Asked who he would like to take his role, the star tipped Johnny Depp, adding: "You would never get him because he's too big but I'd go for Johnny Depp because he's such a good actor."

News of the US spinoff comes nearly a year after John Sullivan's death at the age of 64. The Fools and Horses creator and writer had been suffering from viral pneumonia.

[tammyy2j]

I still laugh at the repeats of this show excellent one of best comedies ever

[Perdita]

Christopher Lloyd has joined the cast of the Only Fools and Horses US remake.

The Back to the Future star will play the grandfather of Del (John Leguizamo) and Rodney (Dustin Ybarra), according to Deadline.

Like the original UK comedy, the potential ABC series will follow the trio as they concoct get-rick-quick schemes in their attempts to become millionaires.

Happy Endings actor BJ Bales has also been cast as Trigger, who has been reinvented as a 'ghetto-talking con man' and Del and Rodney's 'perpetual enemy'.

In the BBC's Only Fools and Horses - which ran from 1981 to 2003 - the dim-witted Trigger was played by Roger Lloyd-Pack, while Del and Rodney's granddad was portrayed by Lennard Pearce, until the actor's death in 1984.

David Jason, who played Del in the original, recently suggested that the remake will struggle, arguing that the show's concept won't "travel across the pond".

Happy Endings writers Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley have adapted Only Fools and Horses for US television and will executive produce alongside Jeff Golenberg.

[Perdita]

Wendi McLendon-Covey has been cast in ABC's Only Fools and Horses remake.

The Bridesmaids star will play Ruby, the ex-wife of John Leguizamo's Del. The equivalent role of Raquel in the UK original was played by Tessa Peake-Jones.

After she was released from HBO pilot Viagra Diaries, McLendon-Covey attracted five offers, and ultimately decided to join the cast of Only Fools and Horses, reports Deadline.

The comedy pilot is about two streetwise brothers Del (Leguizamo) and Rodney (Dustin Ybarra), along with their grandfather (Christopher Lloyd), as they devise schemes to make money in the hope of becoming millionaires.

McLendon-Covey starred in last year's summer hit Bridesmaids as the cousin of Maya Rudolph's Lillian.

Her television credits include Reno 911!, Cougar Town and I Hate My Teenage Daughter.