Sorry Mrs James

Sorry Mrs James i had to do it today in ICT because i did a post yesterday and after i published it my internet went down and i could not do any more. I think i have done everything i had to do, if i have not i will finish it off tonite if my internet is working at home.

Do You think Radio is still important in the continued development of sitcom?

Situation comedy started on radio on January 12, 1926 with the broadcast of Sam “n” Henry and started off as being a 15-minute program which was on everyday. The first proper British situation comedy was Pin Wright’s Progress shown on the BBC from 1946 to 1947, but the radio sitcoms didnt take off until Hancock's Half Hour from BBC radio in the 1950s. The series remains the most successful and best remembered first sitcom on radio, and was successful enough to run on BBC Radio all the way through the 1950’s.

I think that radio is still important today, however I think that radio is not as important as it used to be. This is because now more people download podcasts and watch television instead of listening to the radio . I think people use the radio to listen to music, the news and football. but not as many listen to sitcoms like they used to. Even though BBC 7 still broadcast shows like Little Britain and Mitchell and Webb. Many of the programmes are a lot older with classics like 'Boogie Up The River' also a regular on the BBC 7.

Ronald William George Barker AKA Ronnie Barker

Ronnie Barker was born in Bedford in Bedfordshire. His family moved to Oxford. When Ronnie Barker was 2 years old. He started writing plays for his family and sometimes sat in the audience of The Oxford Playhouse, his local theatre. Ronnie Barker attended the City of Oxford High School and at sixteen he left and took a job at a bank. He wrote to the Aylesbury theatre in 1948 and his theatre career began. Ronnie Barker then went on to join the Playhouse Theatre in Oxford. He first appeared there, in Ben Travers's A Cuckoo in the Nest and in a number of other roles. Ronnie Barker started off in comedy in the hit sitcom hark at Barker 1969 - 1970. He later moved onto The Two ronnie's with Ronnie Corbett. His first radio appearance was in 1956 he went on to play a lot of minor characters in The Navy Lark, a navy based sit-com on the BBC Light Programme (still available on tape and rerun on BBC 7). He later returned to radio in the BBC Radio 4 sketch show Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead. He acted in the films Father Came Too! and The Bargee. On television, he wrote and performed many satirical skits in The Frost Report, notably a series of trios which he performed with Ronnie Corbett and John Cleese. From 1961 to 1963, he starred in the three series of Faces of Jim. He starred with David Jason as a bumbling aristocrat in the sitcom Hark at Barker. Both he and David Jason are widely recognised as having excellent comic timing and delivery, which accounts for their enduring popularity. Jason appeared in several episodes of Porridge, and co-starred as Granville, the errand boy and nephew of Barker's stuttering shopkeeper Arkwright in the sitcom Open All Hours, written by Roy Clarke. Both Porridge and Open All Hours originated as part of the Seven of One series.

Ronnie Barker married Joy Tubb in 1957 and they had three children: two sons, the actors Adam (1967 and Larry (1960) and one daughter, the actress Charlotte Barker (1963). He retired to Dean, a hamlet near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire to run an antiques shop in late 1987. He died in a local hospital from heart failure on Monday 3 October 2005, aged 76, with his wife by his side. His catchphrase ending from The Two Ronnies provided the perfect inscription on his gravestone: "Goodnight From Him."

Porridge

The character of prisoner Norman Stanley Fletcher was originally shown for a one-off comedy. This formed one of Ronnie Barker's 1973 season of TV shows.

When the new show first broadcast in 1974 it was greeted with outrage from the public and also from sections of the news, they were shocked at the idea of a comedy programme set in prison. Before any complaints were made it got the approval of the British publics respect for what is known as one of the most classic British sitcoms ever made.

Detention Notice

James you will be in detention on Monday from 3-4 pm.

You began with such enthusiasm and appeared to enjoy the idea of a blog but you have not added anything since our lesson before Easter.  I am really disappointed, James.  I am sure you will be able to catch up in detention with me on Monday.  You must keep up with tasks or you will really fall behind.

Porridge - Set in Slade Prison, "Porridge" documents the life of Norman Stanley Fletcher (Habitual Criminal) played by Ronnie Barker.

Broadcast 1973 - 1977 (BBC)
Episodes 21 (3 series)
Starring Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Sam Kelly
Written By Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
Directed By Sydney Lotterby

Wednesday's Lesson.

In wednesdays lesson we worked in groups no more than 3, i worked with

jade-dawson.blogspot.com. The task was to make up a situation comedy from three pieces of paper we ened up having the setting Farm, Character an incompetent boss and the problem the boss was having was that the two of the employees which are Jim and Doug.

Sitcom Websites

Go To These Sites For Sitcom Help!

www.sitcom.co.uk - lists all known Sitcoms from English History.

www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitcom

www.sitcomsonline.com