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Shouldn't this page be merged with The Likely Lads ? Jem 08:31, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

No! It's a seprate programme, with seprate concerns and in a seprate (continuous narrative) format. JoeKennedy1979 00:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Its the same actors, the same characters, the same writers, set in the same bit of the country, and a continution of ongoing stories. the first episode of whatever picks up from the last of the likely lads (ie: terry going into the army).but a few years apart. ie: a continuation of the same story. nearly every episode of (whatever) refers to the incidents or their friendship in the past. anyway a lot of the material is duplicated across both entries.

its no different to other tv shows that come back after a bit..the royle family is coming back to bbc1 this week after 7 years. thats more time than the gap between the likely lads and whatever happened to..

I'm not saying that whatever was the same. the writers had matured, the actors were older and many people regard it as better (only 9 episodes of the Likely Lads still exist) but its telling the same story. Jem 08:31, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Television changed a lot between the 2 series and not just black and white to colour.The second series has a very different feel to the first not least because the first has a distinctly stagey feel and a lot of it takes place in the workplace.The second series is modern television comedy with all the constant scenee changes that makes possible and for that reason must stand separately.Anyone judging the second series by the first would have no clue as to the huge differences between the two.Not so with your example of the Royle family.Keep it separate.

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this article needs to be soured think youOo7565 17:38, 18 September 2007 (UTC)