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BBC remaking Good Life and other classic sitcoms

Felicity Kendall starred in the original The Good Life
Felicity Kendall starred in the original The Good Life

BBC One has announced that it is remaking classic sitcoms such as The Good Life and Are You Being Served?

The series of 30-minute specials will mark 60 years since Hancock's Half Hour became the first sitcom on British TV.

New versions of Up Pompeii! and Keeping Up Appearances have also been ordered and BBC Productions comedy executive producer Ben Farrell is overseeing the projects.

These comedies become the most recent classic shows to be revisited by the BBC after the broadcaster announced it was remaking Ronnie Barker's prison sitcom Porridge.

It was previously reported that the series would be brought back with a BBC pilot about the grandson of Barker's character Norman Fletcher, who will be serving time for computer hacking.

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