My Fantasy DVD: Hippies
Sun, 17/12/2006 - 07:42 — John Hoare
Out of all of the television shows that Linehan and Mathews have been involved with, nearly all of them have been released on DVD. Two major omissions remain, however - Paris, their 1994 sitcom featuring Alexi Sayle and Neil Morrissey, and Hippies, their 1999 effort "about" the counterculture, created by both of them, but written by Mathews alone. Is it coincidence that it's their two period sitcoms that are seen as the least successful? Well, probably, to be honest, but it's an interesting notion.
Hippies was great. Get over it.
Fri, 15/12/2006 - 12:22 — John Hoare
It perhaps seems an odd thing to launch a fansite for Linehan and Mathews without some kind of mention of Father Ted; instead, the two shows I mentioned were The IT Crowd and Hippies.
Well, obviously I'll be covering Father Ted at some point, seeing as it's, y'know, one of the best sitcoms ever made, and all that. But I can't do everything at once. Of course, why I'm concentrating on The IT Crowd at the moment is pretty obvious; it's a current show and there's going to be news on it. But Hippies may seem a strange choice. And why I'm going to be writing about it a lot in the upcoming weeks is pretty simple: I think it's a sorely underrated show. Every man and his bitch knows that Father Ted is amazing, but Hippies is a lost gem.