HEYYYYYY!!!!! Anyone else remember this britcom? I have totally forgotten about it until recently when my mother reminded me she's like Diana Trent and wants to be her when she gets that age. (and she's not far off...lol)

Don't let me down guys...tell me you know what I'm talking about. PLEEEEEEASE?!

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**Gracie**

Well, I know what you're talking about, but then I would.......I do live in Britain after all! :) 'Waiting for God' was ok but it is by no means the best Britcom of all time.

Originally posted by Mossopp
'Waiting for God' was ok but it is by no means the best Britcom of all time.

I don't think it was the best Britcom of all time, I just really enjoyed it. There are few I really enjoyed to the point of remembering episodes, and that was one of them. That, Chef!, Goodnight Sweetheart, and a couple others are the only ones of the ones I have seen that I truly enjoyed.

My mother on the other hand thinks it IS the best Britcom of all time...lol!

**Gracie**

I don't like Waiting For God, it's never even shown anymore.

So people don't like that Britcom...any particular reason why not?

Sometimes I wonder if a person doesn't like a show it's because they relate to a person who gets physically/verbally abused the whole time. *shrugs* Just a thought.

**Gracie**

Yes, I remember this one-- I LOVED it, still love it!!! Diana was a role model for all women [especially OLDER women] and Daniel Hill was just plain ADORABLE. [AND I loved the way it ended up, with the manager of the place marrying his "strong right arm"...]

Out of all the Britcoms I've seen, Waiting for God was probably my least fave. Not sure why, I guess the cantankerous man and woman in the series rubbed me the wrong way! :lol: I really enjoyed One Foot in the Grave, though!!! :)

This show just never grew on me and I thought the humor was profusely dry. I just caught it on a syndi station and I how can I say this "suffered" through it.

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Here in west central Florida, we get "Waiting for God" every Saturday night at 9 pm. I have taped the entire series, along with Keeping Up Appearances and Are You Being Served?

American tv has gotten so bad, I love to pop in those tapes.

I wonder what the ages of those of you who don't care for Waiting for God is? I know that there are some shows (and movies for that matter) that younger age groups don't care for basicly because they don't 'get it'. Saw the movie "Space Cowboys" in the theatre and I noticed the younger viewers didn't get the comedic nature of many lines and situations, but the older folks in the audience, especially the retirees, were hysterical.

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Originally posted by Mossopp
Well, I know what you're talking about, but then I would.......I do live in Britain after all! :) 'Waiting for God' was ok but it is by no means the best Britcom of all time.

I'm in the US and I love Stephanie Cole's portrayal of Diana Trent. Waiting For God has left me in stitches more than once. I have taped all the episodes shown by our local PBS station and intend to be enjoying them for years to come.:happyface

It surprised me when I moved to the UK that Waiting for God wasn't more popular here, either. I really loved it - used to catch it on the PBS station in the Florida town I lived in. My mother says they're not showing it anymore, though. They're showing Last of the Summer Wine instead. Oh well...:rolleyes:

Originally posted by peedal
It surprised me when I moved to the UK that Waiting for God wasn't more popular here, either. I really loved it - used to catch it on the PBS station in the Florida town I lived in. My mother says they're not showing it anymore, though. They're showing Last of the Summer Wine instead. Oh well...:rolleyes:

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Hi there! We get the PBS stations out of Tampa, FL and Waiting for God is still a regular Saturday night show, so is Last of the Summer Wine (it comes on later in the evening).

Curious - what made you move to the UK?

Brooky - the oldest of all reasons - LOVE! My darling hubby is a London-born Essex boy whom I've transplanted across the river to Kent! I figure, I crossed an ocean, he can cross a river!!

According to my mother in Fort Myers, the PBS station is showing this lineup:

9.00 - As Time Goes By
9.30 - Are You Being Served?
10.00 - Keeping Up Appearances
10.30 - Last of the Summer Wine
11.00 - an hour (2 episodes) of EastEnders, which is about 3 years or so behind from the UK, I think.

The first three they've been showing in that order forever, it seems!

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Well, well. So how is life in the UK compared to the US? How long have you been there?

We get "Are You Being Served" at 8 p.m.
"Keeping Up Appearances" at 8:30 p.m.
"Waiting for God" at 9 p.m.
"As Time Goes By" at 9:30 p.m.

Asked my daughter about some of the later programs and she says they tend to shift them around. I remember we used to get "Vicar From Dibley" right after "As Time Goes By". My husband's favorite is "Keeping Up Appearances". He can't get over what a doormat Richard is and he really gets a kick out of Onslo.

Originally posted by brooky
I know that there are some shows (and movies for that matter) that younger age groups don't care for basicly because they don't 'get it'.


When I lived in Dallas over 12 years ago, I loved Waiting For God and, even at my age - early 20's, that show had me in stitches!

My Grandma was never like that!

I have to disagreed with your statement about that young age group!

I even love THE GOLDEN GIRLS when it first come on NBC!

Speaking of GG, the reunion show would be on next week on Lifetime!

I can't wait to see the reunion.

I have to disagree with your statement about that young age group!

Sorry, I should have qualified that statement with "most". Younger people (teens and twenties) who don't spend much time around older adults aren't likely to get a lot of the comedic nature of a film like "Space Cowboys". While working at a local high school, that movie was shown to a class of students about to graduate. They were finished with their exams, etc. and had a few days of required attendance left so the teacher decided to show a movie to keep them occupied. Well, they didn't get a lot of the 'older adult' stuff. The teacher and I (I was the computer lab aide) were commenting on the fact that they just didn't get a number of the jokes.

Waiting for God is a hoot....dry at times but I believe it was planned that way.

See see Stephanie Cole later in the Doc Martin series and Graham Crowden has a small part in a recent Bond flick

Wow! Not much love here for WFG, is there?! But, I love it! Diana can be a bitter pill to take, at times, but once I got into it, it was like a serial to me, and I just had to watch one episode after another, to see what would happen! I adore the way the show has continuity, despite not really being a soap. It's constantly unfolding with every episode, and the characters are always in development, unlike a lot of other episodic half-hour shows.

I have to say, WFG was the first Britcom I really FELL IN LOVE WITH, and since discovering a love for it, I have become a British-TV lover! My other fav Britcom is AbFab.

I don't think it was the best Britcom of all time, I just really enjoyed it. There are few I really enjoyed to the point of remembering episodes, and that was one of them. That, Chef!, Goodnight Sweetheart, and a couple others are the only ones of the ones I have seen that I truly enjoyed.

My mother on the other hand thinks it IS the best Britcom of all time...lol!

**Gracie** Well, your mother isn't the only one! I too think is probably the best Britcom of all time! In fact, I think it's the best show ever made, anywhere (it also helps that I think all the main characters are good-looking, classy, and stylish! I wish everyone could look and dress more like them!)! It's my favorite show! I enjoy it so much, I'm euphoric a long time after watching it! There are a few episode that I didn't care much for, but for the most part, there are no wasted shows in the entire series!

Every episode is important to developing the characters and it is sort of serialized, despite being a sitcom. In other words, it isn't just silliness meant for laughs, like so many sitcoms are, nor is it unreasonably saccharin. WFG is, instead, a very thoughtful, very touching, and very topical show, which still manages to provide great escapism and lots of laughs, despite its poignancy.

If I were able to live out my senior days like them, with them, as them, I'd probably die a happy woman! And, I wish I had Tom and Diana's deliciously sensual, teasing, caring love-affair-friendship-relationship! Those two are the best couple since Lucy and Ethel---and they even stepped it up a notch! They had it all!

I am and expect I always will be forever grateful to my local PBS station to introducing me to this near-perfect show!

I just like the show plan and simple. Tom and Diana are funny. It's as simple as that. But, I also enjoy the way they use the fact that younger people think they have lost it. to outsmart those same younger people. Tom and Dianna are exact opposites. Tom lives in a fantasy world while Dianna lives in stark, sometimes dark reality. Gives the writers freedom to inject friction between the two, as they stick together against the foe.


If there's one thing I'm positive about, it's being negative.
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