Only seen a trailer so far, but it's already been enough to put me off.
For the love of God BBC, either stop churning out this generic, repetitive Perry-and-Croft rubbish or scrap the TV licence.
"The dead do not suffer the living to pass"
"You will suffer me"
shut up you tart ! You haven't even seen it yet, and you're moaning like a b*tch !
shareI take it back. It's fkn sht.
It was like some horrible British version of Naked Gun.....
Better to regret something you did, than something you didn't do!
Truly appalling. After doing so well as Del Trotter and Jack Frost - not to mention 'Dangermouse' - does David Jason really want to throw his career down the toilet on this crap? Shame on the BBC for even countenancing this,which even makes 'Life of Riley look,well,competent.
shareAfter watching it last night, I have to say it looked, it sounded, and quite frankly it felt, smelt and tasted terrible from the very start.
The reason why I tend to ignore hype from critics about TV Shows to any extent, is because I'd honestly say that about 10% of the time I end up feeling the standard lived up to this hype, and most of the others just aren't quite there. However with this one, it only took as much as the first scene for me to have a bad bad feeling about it. 'Slapstick + David Jason'... I mean in small doses that combination is hilarious! like in Only Fools and Horses, because you can very well believe that things like the Chandelier incident and the bar fall could easily happen to Del & Rodney. But the horse dragging the Queen away scene in the Royal Body Guard was way way OTT, which CAN be funny, but the way this was done was like in an episode of Chuckle Brothers... where NONE of the farcical components in that chain leading up to the climax were in any way believable. Except that show was intended for kids, and was successful with what it set out to achieve.
The Royal Bodyguard however, had this same type of slapstick for nearly the entire bloody show, and it clearly just doesn't suit David Jason at all. The rest of the time included horrible dialogue between Guy and a set of characters we had no reason to give a crap about or laugh at because they were all incredibly bland. The conversations were obviously inspired by Naked Gun, Johnny English and plenty of other spy spoofs... all of which fell flat like a lead balloon. Maybe this could've worked with Rowan Atkinson as the lead and some decent writing, but as it is, I can't see this show getting any better unless they've changed a hell of a lot of things before the next episode!
And, astonishingly, a ratings hit (admittedly in an era when 7.1m viewers counts as a hit: back in the days of the first series on Only Fools and Horses they were considered bad enough for the BBC to consider cancelling it). But what's the betting those ratings crash next week?
"Security - release the badgers."
I'ts an absolute insult to Croft and Perry to link their name and reputation,with the car crash,rubbish and embarrassment that was The Royal Bodyguard :-( Shame on you!! Watch the prog, You have been watching", currently on iplayer...(with an ability to watch with an open mind),and see if you still draw the same comparisons.
shareI have to agree with all the negative comments. The first episode was embarrassingly terrible and I nearly switched it off halfway through. What was David Jason thinking of when he took this role? I have trouble working out how to tackle shellfish, so could identify with his difficulty with the lobster but the way he kept on pounding it was over the top, as was the queen being dragged so far when the horses bolted and his falling on her when she was on the podium.
Very sad, as I'm a great fan of David.
Marlburian
Having lost three million viewers since week one and slagged off in the papers if it wasn't for Jason's presence I can see this ending up in a graveyard slot like Sunday afternoon or 10.30pm.
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