Seriously, it's been 6 years and all we have is recycled material on live show tours. Is a new season on the works or should we just move on?
shareDon't think it will come back. They hinted at a movie last year i think, but who knows if it will get made.
shareTo be honest I doubt it, because Luxury Comedy is basically The Mighty Boosh without Howard, but Julian Barrat did say this when approached by a fan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiQyjot4FIo&index=96&list=LLSD VuUgz1bkCPEIlViJLJww
I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing!
That video was so ambiguous, it is making my brain hurt
shareI think they're bound to come back in some capacity, but that could be a one-off Christmas special 20 years from now. Who knows?
I think it's safe to say that the show in its traditional format is currently dead, though a revival is possible.
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Why did it ever stop in the first place??
I remember when it first came out, it was huge, and then it found a late night home here in the states and got an even bigger audience.I watched a documentary on it(I needed something new and Booshy!), and there seemed to have been a bit of Boosh mania in the UK, so I can't figure out why they'd stop in the first place.
I've tried getting into the Luxury Comedy show, but only a couple first season episodes, someone suggested watching the newer episodes, as it's found it's footing and gotten better.
Unlike the Americans, the English have always been smart with TV and have often quit while they're ahead. The Americans used to run a show until there were only 9 people watching it worldwide because the quality - and often the main stars - had long gone. The English would often produce a brilliant show - like The Mighty Boosh, or The Office, or Faulty Towers - and then simply leave it. That's why a lot of the all time great shows are English. There are exceptions to the rule of course; Seinfeld is the best example, but that was only possible because Jerry Seinfeld was smart and kept the production rights. Well... there's also the fact that the show would have been unable to continue without him I suppose!
The Americans seem to have cottoned on to the idea and now they too are starting to produce shows which only have 8-12 episodes, only run for a few seasons, and then quit while they're ahead. It's so much better in the long run because you end up with shows which only have quality episodes. We're really going through TV's Golden Age at the moment. Producers are now realising that you can effectively make a 12 hour movie and that's what they're doing. Thanks to streaming they don't have to worry about people missing episodes - the whole of House Of Cards, Season 3, was released on the same day - and that means that individual episodes no longer have to be stand-alone (so to speak).
Anyway... it wouldn't surprise me if they just didn't think they were able to match the quality of the first 3 seasons and so chose to let it be. Which is funny actually because The Beatles also ended on a high note and only ever released top quality material, unlike a lot of other bands who slowly produce more and more crap which would never be listened to if not for their original brilliance. A lot like this post of mine too, which has gone on way longer than it should have! I should have taken my own advice and finished after the first paragraph???
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You couldn't be more mistaken fillshertease. It's based on how shows are financed in the UK. There are still plenty of smaller British productions that have long runs, however, they are of the more inexpensive variety since the BBC (among others) rely heavily on government subsidies merely to exist. There are a multitude of short-run British television shows that are complete garbage. I'd much rather have an enjoyable series with 20 odd episodes, rather than a paltry 6-8.
As for cable series producing fewer episodes, that is because they are not being financed by the large broadcast networks. Don't be so misguided as to believe it has anything to do with quality. Simply stated, their budgets are smaller, as a result, so are the number of episodes.
Enough with the mistaken and elitist attitude that British television has shorter runs due to the fictitious notion that they are somehow superior in quality. It's complete *beep*
It's not like Foreign actors are scrambling to star in a British television series. Hollywood is where everyone wants to be. They make more popular, critically acclaimed and financially successful series than anyone else.
Just another poster that derived his "facts" from other peoples forum opinions.
I think that the first series was the best, too bad they didn't do more of it. then the second one was very good, just not quite as good. in america, we only got series one on bbc america, they showed it like twice and that was it. they never even showed the second series here. so after the second one I got on the forums with all the groupies all discussing romours about when a third series? it went on and on and on, they kept on saying they were in the process of writing it. I think they had basically run out of ideas after two seasons and it took them forever to finally write the 3'rd one and it showed. the first two seasons I must have watched a dozen times each, the third series, just once. I thought it just dull except for maybe one episode.
and they were also so busy doing the live shows touring all over the place I think they saw the money in that so forget doing another tv series, we can just make tons of money touring doing the same old things. they got famous, they got greedy, they were rockstars in england anyway, but they ran out of ideas it seems.that and probably just wanting to do something different.