THE nation’s favourite pensioners are back this week for the new series of Still Game and the stars have vowed there is life in the old show yet.
It has been 16 years since the first episode aired but Ford Kiernan, who plays Jack, and Greg Hemphill, the man behind his partner in crime Victor, are confident the BBC comedy’s success will continue.
“The TV audience is splintering, with families watching different things, but people want to sit down and watch Still Game together,” 56-year-old Ford tells iN10 Magazine.
“We don’t feel like it’s running out of gas as we’re never short of ideas. We know there will be people who say it’s not as funny but we’ve played this series to an audience and we know it works.”
Still Game ran from 2002 to 2007, before returning to screens in late 2016. But Greg, 48, won’t be joining the millions of expected viewers on Thursday night. Instead he plans to trawl social media to see what the response is.
He says: “You get people who say they love it and others who say it’s complete rubbish.
“It’s an undiluted response.”
Read the full interview in iN10 magazine, inside today’s Sunday Post
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