Is Game On definitely over now or have they ever hinted at another series? A new one would be awesome of couse but i'm quite happy as long as i have my DVD boxset of the first 3.
shareId love a 4th series i really would, but it's never gonna happen.
shareThe final episode of series 3 was just bizarre, it seemed that Mandy hardly reacted to his death, and then it finished with them having a cup of tea. Hardly a big-bang finish was it? i felt there could have been potential in using Archies funeral as the basis of the next episode. I really cant see it coming back now, it would be a bridge too far- and you couldnt see them all still living together 7 years down the line anyway. well maybe just Matt on his own...
shareI'm confused that we never saw a fourth series because I remember Neil "Matt" Stuke on an episode of chat show The Jack Docherty Show on Channel 5, just after series 3 had finished, and he said the cast had found out that day that a fourth series had been commissioned for the next year. This must have been about 1998/'99.
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The final episode of series 3 was just bizarre, it seemed that Mandy hardly reacted to his death, and then it finished with them having a cup of tea.
I remember when the 3rd series finale's credits were rolling, a voice announced that there would be a new series next year (1999), but obviously it never happened.
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its so annoying how people slag off Game On after Ben Chaplin left, yeh he was funny but I think Neil Stuke really pulls off the same character well. I think all 18 episodes are just as consistantly as good as the others. A GREAT show.
shareI agree with you about Neil Stuke. I used to prefer Ben Chaplin when it was actually being aired, and my then wife preferred Neil Stuke, but now I watch it on DVD, i prefer Stuke.
Don't think I've laughed so much in my life as when he came out with the "Scum out, filth out, dirty old limbs falling off a manky old tramp out etc etc" lines from one of the first episodes of Series 2. I used to hate Stuke purely for that ad he once did where he was criticising his wife's driving, ("Mirror, Mirror") when i wanted to throw my Gin and Tonic at the screen when it came on - anyone remember it?!
I recall reading, that the authors did not want to continue, though there was no mentioning why.
Series 3 credits state "written by Bernadette Davis" only, while series 1 and 2 was written by Bernadette Davis and Andrew Davies, much room for speculation there, I guess.
The whole series was very loosely based on the Sartre play Huis Clos anyway - to which Mandy refers in one episode. Two guys and a girl stuck in Hell's waiting room with each other for all eternity. Mandy is practically a carbon copy of Garcin.
No matter what any of them do, they are destined to be trapped together unable to ever change their predicament. Sartre's position being quite simply 'Hell is other people'. There is no escape.
It seems if the writers wanted to remain true to their original concept there was only one way to end it. And that was exactly how the series did - as depressing as it may be.
You should take a look at the play. Its Game On just on a much more serious level.
Believe it or not, Samantha Janus came into the shop I work at today to buy some stuff. She's filming Eastenders, and that's shot just down the road from me and where I work. I asked her if they would do a 4th Game On series, as I'd read this thread a few weeks ago.
She said no, and that they were going to, but she wasn't around for filming, then Neil Stuke wasn't around, and it just never got done. I said 'ah that's a shame, I wanted to know what happened after Archie!' and she said 'me too!'
She was very nice, really. Very polite. Really weird speaking to her though. Meeting Metallica, AC/DC and Soundgarden and The Smashing Pumpkins was one thing, but meeting someone I'd watch as one person talking on a TV show, and that I used to think was really hot, was pretty strange.
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I think a fourth series would be a bad idea although I wouldn't say no to a one off special, maybe in two part which shows what's become of each of lead characters. Other than that I really can't see a fourth series being a good idea.
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