Classic prison comedy series, Porridge, is returning to the BBC with a brand new line-up.
The Seventies sitcom, starring the late Ronnie Barker, followed his inmate Norman Fletcher’s life behind bars, but the remake will centre on his convicted grandson.
Comedy writers, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, told The Sunday Times that the BBC had commissioned them to write a pilot episode of a new show with the hopes of it being turned into a series.
‘We were asked by the BBC to do a revival and decided to set it right up to date,’ La Frenais said. ‘It will be set in a modern prison while Slade was of course Victorian.’
According to La Frenais, the lead character, ‘Fletcher’, will be in prison for computer… Read the full story