I seriously can't believe the utter incompetence of the BSB executives. But then again let's not start about the even bigger incompetence of those at the IBA.
So much for 'British programming of quality' if it produced Wife of the Week. Biggins' tone in that clip seemed to say 'I'm only doing this for the money, what's your excuse?' The concept behind Heil Honey I'm Home was too clever for its own good. As noted, it didn't make its setup as a vain producer's glory project clear enough. It needed to have that character fleshed out, showing him coming up with this ridiculous idea, like the mid-'00s show Moving Wallpaper did with its vain producer Jonathan Pope, played by Ben Miller, producing an Aussie style soap in Cornwall and stuffing it with the worst tropes and clichés possible, which was then followed by the actual soap, Echo Beach, played straight. The second season had him being kicked out of ITV after Echo Beach was such a disaster and him making an alien invasion movie to force them to keep him and his staff for another year. That could have been done here, with the series ending with the producer character shown being blacklisted for creating a 'Nazi sitcom'. Again, as noted, an easily missable disclaimer didn't count as making it clear enough.
I agree, a Moving Wallpaper or even a Garth Marenghi's Darkplace style structure would have best suited Heil Honey I'm Home better, but such a meta format would have been too far ahead of it's time in 1990. Even as Matthew suggested, had it been in short bursts like in a sketch show, it might have worked better. Someone like Harry Enfield might have known what to do with it, especially as his sketch shows spoofed old sitcoms, like Mr. Dead.
@@BobtheFishProductions I read recently that writer Geoff Atkinson had had the idea for a few years, and he'd originally pitched it as a sketch back in 1986 for The Two Ronnies. God knows what THEY would have done with it, but in any case Barker and Corbett rejected it, leaving Atkinson to let it grow into a sitcom.
It's interesting that you brought up Rob Shearman when discussing Heil Honey I'm Home's attempted satire, because he actually DID address the idea of the Nazi's genocidal evil being reduced to pop culture buffoonery in his Doctor Who audio drama Jubilee - I'm assuming you're aware and mentioned him specifically on purpose. Also, if anyone reading this hasn't listened to Jubilee, go listen to Jubilee. It's so good.
@@applemask I suspected as much! Shearman's great, isn't he? In my humble opinion he should be far more well-known outside of hardcore Doctor Who fan circles as one of the great modern writers. Also, just wanna say that I'm a huge fan of this series. I first watched it way back when it dropped episode-by-episode on vimeo back in 2016, and it I enjoy it just as much upon rewatch as I did the first time around. Great work!
They weren’t on top of anything. They decided to give the chip decoder contractor to ITT who weren’t monitored and thought it was more a research and development project than taking it as a serious project. Surprised the major shareholders let it go on the way it did for so long and didn’t replace those at the top sooner.
GBeebies takes itself far more seriously than literally anyone else does, though. Heil Honey was meant to be a satire that didn't land for obvious reasons...
If only that were true if GB News weren't taking itself seriously, it wants so desperately to be taken that way too. Or as serious as possible when John Cleese presents on it. Conversely, "Honey, I'm Home", it was meant to be satirical but it didn't quite land the way that the creators hoped it would. It's like "I love Lucy" but with only the most heinous man in history in the place of Ricky, there's not really much of a reason for people to be sympathising with the moustache man.
I seriously can't believe the utter incompetence of the BSB executives. But then again let's not start about the even bigger incompetence of those at the IBA.
I binge watched Jupiter Moon recently and very much enjoyed all 150 episodes.
So much for 'British programming of quality' if it produced Wife of the Week. Biggins' tone in that clip seemed to say 'I'm only doing this for the money, what's your excuse?'
The concept behind Heil Honey I'm Home was too clever for its own good. As noted, it didn't make its setup as a vain producer's glory project clear enough. It needed to have that character fleshed out, showing him coming up with this ridiculous idea, like the mid-'00s show Moving Wallpaper did with its vain producer Jonathan Pope, played by Ben Miller, producing an Aussie style soap in Cornwall and stuffing it with the worst tropes and clichés possible, which was then followed by the actual soap, Echo Beach, played straight. The second season had him being kicked out of ITV after Echo Beach was such a disaster and him making an alien invasion movie to force them to keep him and his staff for another year. That could have been done here, with the series ending with the producer character shown being blacklisted for creating a 'Nazi sitcom'. Again, as noted, an easily missable disclaimer didn't count as making it clear enough.
I agree, a Moving Wallpaper or even a Garth Marenghi's Darkplace style structure would have best suited Heil Honey I'm Home better, but such a meta format would have been too far ahead of it's time in 1990.
Even as Matthew suggested, had it been in short bursts like in a sketch show, it might have worked better. Someone like Harry Enfield might have known what to do with it, especially as his sketch shows spoofed old sitcoms, like Mr. Dead.
@@stuartkenny7430 Mr Dead got them into enough trouble.
@@BobtheFishProductions I read recently that writer Geoff Atkinson had had the idea for a few years, and he'd originally pitched it as a sketch back in 1986 for The Two Ronnies. God knows what THEY would have done with it, but in any case Barker and Corbett rejected it, leaving Atkinson to let it grow into a sitcom.
It's interesting that you brought up Rob Shearman when discussing Heil Honey I'm Home's attempted satire, because he actually DID address the idea of the Nazi's genocidal evil being reduced to pop culture buffoonery in his Doctor Who audio drama Jubilee - I'm assuming you're aware and mentioned him specifically on purpose. Also, if anyone reading this hasn't listened to Jubilee, go listen to Jubilee. It's so good.
That is exactly what the reference was, yes.
@@applemask I suspected as much! Shearman's great, isn't he? In my humble opinion he should be far more well-known outside of hardcore Doctor Who fan circles as one of the great modern writers.
Also, just wanna say that I'm a huge fan of this series. I first watched it way back when it dropped episode-by-episode on vimeo back in 2016, and it I enjoy it just as much upon rewatch as I did the first time around. Great work!
They weren’t on top of anything. They decided to give the chip decoder contractor to ITT who weren’t monitored and thought it was more a research and development project than taking it as a serious project. Surprised the major shareholders let it go on the way it did for so long and didn’t replace those at the top sooner.
Bsb Galaxy Club 1990 x3
1. Go Home 8:50
2. Star Fall 8:55
3. L Crash 8:57
SKY blew BSB out of the water!!! And this excellent series has shown that to be the case. BSB bogged down by dinosaurs and red tape!
I thought that sitcom was a joke. Omfg who thought that would be a good idea?
Heil Honey I'm Home was basically GB News with some actual, though still not digestible jokes.
Grow up
@@thomashall4886 Haha you grow up and take a joke...snowflake ;)
GBeebies takes itself far more seriously than literally anyone else does, though. Heil Honey was meant to be a satire that didn't land for obvious reasons...
If only that were true if GB News weren't taking itself seriously, it wants so desperately to be taken that way too. Or as serious as possible when John Cleese presents on it.
Conversely, "Honey, I'm Home", it was meant to be satirical but it didn't quite land the way that the creators hoped it would. It's like "I love Lucy" but with only the most heinous man in history in the place of Ricky, there's not really much of a reason for people to be sympathising with the moustache man.
Sky idents imo were far better than BSB. Sky’s idents were exciting and even the channel logos themselves on BSB were drab.