Martin Clunes doubts Men Behaving Badly would be made in 2019

OHMYGOSSIP — Martin Clunes thinks ‘Men Behaving Badly’ would struggle to get made in 2019.
The 57-year-old actor starred in the popular sitcom – which ran from 1992 until 1998 – alongside the likes of Neil Morrissey and Caroline Quentin, but Martin thinks it’d be tough for the show to get the green light in the current TV landscape.
He quipped: “These days, it’d have to be ‘People of No Particular Gender Behaving Badly’.”
The show’s pilot episode was directed by John Howard Davies – who helmed the iconic ‘Fawlty Towers’ series – and Martin was initially told to “be more like John Cleese”.
But the show – and Martin’s character – gradually evolved over time, and ended up being completely different to the original plan.
The actor – who played the part of Gary Strang on the show – told Radio Times: “That pilot never got shown. We remade it – and if you look at the way the show went, it was completely the opposite.
“Gary forgave Tony for sleeping with his girlfriend, that’s how close they were – and that’s why it was funny. But at the time there were these very rigid ideas, and I think that’s what killed sitcoms.”
Meanwhile, Martin previously insisted he never “set out to do a zeitgeisty thing” with the sitcom.
He added: “Although it aired in the early 1990s, it was never meant to sum up that particular time. It was just funny to laugh at people like Gary and Tony.”

Source: Female First
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