When things are so absolutely perfect that they are just as fresh and popular almost 30 years later, then queerguru think that they should not be tampered with. So we are so disappointed that the BBC in London is filming a prequel to one of favorite TV programs of all time ‘Keeping Up Appearances’ which introduced the world to the indefatigable Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) but without the wonderful Patricia Routledge herself . She is after all 87 years old now.
This new series will reveal that Hyacinth had a remarkable humble start in life. Set in the late 1950s, she shares a cramped cottage with her down-at-heel family and is forced to work as a maid for her father’s wartime RAF squadron leader. She even has to share a bed with her sisters Violet, Daisy and Rose.
The show starring Kerry Howard will be screened in September on BBC1 in the UK but one person who won’t be keeping up appearances is Miss Routledge herself. She dismisses the remake, saying: ‘They must be desperate. Remind me to switch it off.’ We can just see Hyacinth demanding her long-suffering husband Richard, to do just that.
Here then is a clip of part of one of our favorite episodes with Hyacinth enraged when people keep phoning her in error to order Take Out food in ‘This Is Not A Chinese Takeaway’. Nothing less than superb.
