TOPIC: “THE PRODIGIOSITY OF CLASSIC BRITISH

SITCOMS: WHAT IS MISSING IN CONTEMPORARY

SITCOMS”

PROPOSED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Can you please give us a brief introduction of yourself?

2. British sitcom as a TV genre, is it dead or declining?

3. Why do you think classic British sitcoms were prodigious and very popular?

4. How did classic British sitcoms manage to successfully engage British society?

5. “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em”, what do you say of this nerve-breaking classic

sitcom, how did you find the character of Frank Spencer?

6. “Steptoe and Son”, very hilarious classic sitcom, are there still character like

Albert Steptoe (Brambell) and Son (Corbett) today?

7. If Britain still has such good sitcom actors, how come we don’t see them today?

8. Do British still have sitcom writers like Ray Galton and Alan Simpsons today, if

yes, then where are they?

9. Why do you say British don’t make sitcoms anymore?

10.Do you think anything is missing in contemporary British sitcoms? If yes, what

is missing?

11.Do you also think the Americanization of British society and influx of Reality

TV shows in British Televisions has in any way contributed to the present

lamentable state of British sitcom?

12.One of the problems of contemporary sitcoms is said to be the use of politically

incorrect languages? What’s your opinion on this?

13. Do you in anyway support the opinion that present day TV executives

contributed to death of British sitcom? If you do why?

14.And do you think there is chance for sitcoms in today’s television

programming?

15.If sitcom should come back to toady’s British television, do you think there will

still be audiences for it?

16.How can contemporary sitcoms be made to replicate the result and prodigiosity

of classic British sitcoms?

17. Some British televisions are nursing the idea to remake some of the very good

classic sitcom again with new characters, do you thinks this will help to

rejuvenate sitcom again in Britain?

18. Lastly, is it possible to have a renaissance of classic British sitcom today

television?