Hold The Sunset
It's funny how sitcom plots have a habit of overlapping. Last week in Mum there was a sixtieth birthday celebration, this week in Hold The Sunset there's a seventieth birthday celebration. Both involve big bright banners, both involve pub lunches, but that's where the similarity ends.*
The first episode of the new sitcom starring John Cleese and Alison Steadman has been a ratings success for the BBC.
The series launched on BBC One on Sunday night with a peak audience of 7.2m. The average was 6.2m viewers with a 29.1% audience share making this the most successful comedy launch on BBC One since Still Open All Hours series 1 launched in 2014.
It is pretty big news that John Cleese has returned to the BBC to star in a new sitcom for the first time since Fawlty Towers. So it's a relief to say that Hold The Sunset is not a painful attempt to recreate the anarchic brilliance of his seventies heyday. The fact that it is scheduled in the early Sunday evening slot and not going out online on BBC Three shows that it is aimed squarely at a mainstream audience that isn't going to demand something too edgy.
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