Final weekend revered manufacturing firm obtained the Lyell Longford Award on the AACTA Awards and appeared to a packed viewers for a Q+A hosted by Ed Kavalee.
Kavalee requested what was the key to them staying collectively for nearly 40 years?
Rob Sitch replied, “It’s attention-grabbing how we attain settlement. I feel it’s solely ever labored when all of us are actually enthusiastic. Everybody’s obtained the thrill, whenever you pitch an thought, .. if somebody pauses, it’s lifeless.”
“There’s so many concepts.,” Santo Cilauro agreed. “Now we have whiteboards all over the place with concepts for all kinds of stuff, and concepts that in all probability we haven’t even talked about to one another as a result of it’s both not the appropriate time or they’re not fairly prepared for it. However there’s all the time stuff floating round.”
Requested about Thank God You’re Right here producer Michael Hirsh confirmed there had been 32 totally different variations world wide, together with in Russia (“You’ll by no means get the cash and when you do it is going to be in a brown paper bag”) and China which Cilauro recalled required one season -of 52 episodes.
“We’d executed 4 seasons and we nonetheless hadn’t executed 52 exhibits!” Cilauro laughed.
Tom Gleisner recalled, “They mentioned we couldn’t do a state of affairs that made enjoyable of cops or docs. Once we mentioned, ‘What about this one? It’s dad and mom going out and a foul babysitter?’ They mentioned, ‘No. One Little one Coverage, we don’t have babysittters.’”
Jane Kennedy even recalled Oprah Winfrey constructing a set in Chicago. “You’ll be able to YouTube it. Oprah Winfrey Thank God You’re Right here. She did two eventualities she liked it a lot.”
The Italian model wished the present prolonged to 3 hours and used three judges, floating an thought of sluggish movement replays of individuals strolling by way of doorways, which Santo rejected.
“Then she mentioned, properly what’s our semi-nude going to do?” he recalled.
“I used to be laughing as a result of they’d a technical time period for somebody on tv known as the semi-nude. Then she mentioned, ‘I’ll have you realize she’s obtained a regulation diploma!’”
Consideration additionally turned to The Citadel and whether or not they would contemplate a sequel.
“We’ve been requested that query so many occasions,” mentioned Jane Kennedy. “I feel even the movie distribution firm positively wished us to do it, revenue smart, I feel.”
“I keep in mind after we mentioned ‘No, there won’t be a sequel to The Citadel,” Cilauro added, ” and he checked out us and mentioned, ‘Prequel?’”
“I feel he was suggesting that Daryl wins the lottery, or one thing like that,” mentioned Kennedy.
The staff even turned down a suggestion for Tom Hanks in an American model, with the main target shifting to the lawyer and a constitutional case within the Supreme Court docket. Michael Hirsh mentioned they have been continuously approached to make use of the characters in TV ads.
“We’ve mentioned no to every part. No sequels, no prequels, nothing. We’re simply maintaining the movie as it’s, as a result of all of us really feel it’s a particular movie.”
With that the room applauded.
