Maurice

[Who's Wee Dug]

Something good after the disastrous the Watch. Now to show them how it should have been done.

Looks like a star cast.

Narrativia Ltd

The Amazing Maurice - cast and release date news!

The Amazing Maurice, a Sky original coming in 2022
Starring Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton and Hugh Bonneville
narrativia.com

 

[Tonyblack]

Now this is exciting news!

 

[owenmahamilton]

Sounds good to me, after all it's got to be better than The Watch surely?

 

[pip]

Now that looks and sounds great

 

[=Tamar]

Sky has done decent work in the past, and one good thing about this being animation: for most of it, nobody has to be in the same room, so covid shouldn't interfere much with production.

 

[Ghost]

not the first time Hugh Laurie has been working with CG mice
sounds good I like the art style

 

[Tonyblack]

I wonder if Hugh Laurie will play Maurice as as The Prince Regent or House!

 

[RathDarkblade]

I regret I have only but one thumbs-up to give for this wonderful news! =D

*is as excited as a very excited person who has a very exciting reason to be excited*

I remember Hugh Laurie as the Prince Regent. "Lucky lucky us! Lucky lucky luck! Luck, luck luck luck cluuuuuck! Luck luck luck cluuuck!"

As for this news ... well.

"Permission to shout 'bravo!' in an annoyingly loud volume, sir."
"Permission granted."

"BRAVO!"

 

[Molokov]

I think Hugh Laurie's turn recently as a star cruise ship vessel captain in 'Avenue 5' may a bit more like Maurice's character - or at least, bits of it. He starts off as a charming American captain, chatting with the passengers, showing leadership, but that's soon revealed to be all a facade as disasters start to unfold, as underneath, he's a neurotic British fraud who has no clue about how to captain a spaceship. It's a good fun series, although somewhat broad and cringy at times.
(It's another show by Armando Iannucci, of The Thick Of It/Veep fame, so the humour is somewhat similar)

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I did watch quite some time ago, it was Ok.

 

[Mixa]

Good news at last!

Mx

 

[RathDarkblade]

BRAVO!

(Disclaimer: naturally, I own nothing of the above video. YouTube is YouTube). =P

 

[Mixa]

Hiii! Are there any news about this adaptation? Can't wait to know more about it!

Mx

 

[=Tamar]

Prince Regent, House, or Bertie Wooster?

 

[Penfold]

Sorry Mixa, this is all I managed to dig up from Narrativia.

Maurice

 

[Mixa]

Don't worry! I'll wait patiently

Mx

 

[Penfold]

Just seen some new fantastic additions to the cast.
Additional Cast

 

[Tonyblack]

Wow! I'm getting very excited about this.

 

[RathDarkblade]

Very exciting indeed!

I just wonder how I can watch this. I don't have Sky TV or any Sky-related stuff (except rain, hail, and other stuff that falls from the sky. Like fish, mushrooms, bedsteads...)

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Do have freeview, that has Sky one on it, or you could watch it online possibly.