Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps has been axed after ten years. The long-running comedy series, which starred Will Mellor, will not be renewed as the BBC makes way for fresh content, The Mirror reports. BBC Three Controller Zai Bennett said: "BBC Three is all about giving new writers a chance. It's now time to give that chance to others. I want to thank the production team for creating a warm, cheeky and popular comedy." The show's creator Susan Nickson joked: "I've had a fantastic time for the last 50 years, but wholeheartedly believe it's right for us all to move on. "The crew, the fans, the actors and writers have become like family over the life of the show, in that I see them once a year and ask [them] for money. I'm thankful we brought such happiness to a lot of people and a lot of enjoyable rage to many others." Nickson added: "I'm extremely grateful to the BBC for supporting the show and already have plans afoot for future ventures with the corporation." She is planning to write another series for the BBC, while Bennett is expected to announce new comedy commissions in the coming weeks. From Digital Spy
10 years too late. My house burned down once and that made me laugh more than this pile of excrement.
This is the problem with the BBC, they don't give a flying ****ing about what people actually want because they are under no commercial pressure to perform. They just stick a 'Dancing with some **** on ice' on 7pm Saturday night to inflate the lowest common denominator figures a bit then pat themselves in the back. As much as I hate Sky for their dominance of the market they offer much much better value than the 20 odd quid a month the BBC force me to pay for license, when I can't remember the last time I actually watched a BBC channel.
I have to disagree. Endless quality dramas like State of Play, Life on Mars and and The Shadow Line against imported American crap full of people who's only quality is the ability to look pretty. True, the BBC does produce a lot of ****e but that's true of all channels. They produce far less of it than most. And then there's BBC 4
Mick that's not entirely true, apart from Sky Sports and Movies there's ****-all else on there to watch, unless you're a fan of Pawn Stars or boring documentaries repeated 5 times a week. Iplayer is still loads better than Sky on demand
Fecking garbage English humour, joins the other BBC classics like 2.4 Children, My Family etc...****E
I haven't used the iPlayer in years and I am a proper geek. I use FX for the Family Guys, American Dads, Dexter, Falling Skies, I use Comedy Central for stand up and South Park, I use the History Channel for The Universe, Discover Science for Physics of the Impossible, National Geographic for that one with Morgan Freeman. I use Sky Atlantic for Game of Thrones and Big Love and of course Sky Sports buys up nearly every sporting event worth watching. The last thing I watched on the BBC was that Brian Cox show (because I love physics and astronomy) and he fills the thing up with right guff, he spends most of his time travelling to weird and wonderful locations on planet Earth to use as examples - just an excuse for a foreign jolly up on the license payer when the examples are so obscurely related to Astronomy. The BBC did used to do documentaries better, but I haven't seen a decent one in a while. Just absolute ****e on all the time now on the BBC, heading towards the ITV model of the cheapest possible woman facing celebrity bullshit.
