My understanding is that there was a writer's room, with each individual episode being mainly written by one member- not uncommon for shows. But they all did work together with Iannucci.

This is adding more ammo to my theory that part of why Disney bought into the show is that they want to be able to add a new property to the Marvel-Star Wars cycle... the only issue from RTD's side is that unlike at the BBC where the spinoffs can air on BBC Two or Three, giving the original show pride of place, at Disney all shows would presumably be at the same level.

Very human characters with very human flaws who are all just trying their best, but all their petty life stuff feels small against the vast scope of the history that they explore. There's something soothing about that.

Oh I've been both excited and nervous for this for AGES. Excited because it's more Detectorists, nervous because it ended so so perfectly. I'm thrilled that it's apparently as great as I want it to be.

To mention something previously unmentioned, Good Omens 2. It will either be amazing or terrible and I'm on tenterhooks not knowing which.

The only one to whom that was ever attributed was a Klemperer, IIRC. He’d had plenty of previous experience playing Nazis in Hollywood (most famously in Judgment in Nuremberg) and was very alarmed when he went to the audition for Hogan’s Heroes and realized that it was meant to be a comedy. At the time he described the show as a workplace comedy that could have just as easily taken place at General Motors.

Interestingly, if you’ve seen the pilot you’ll notice that Larry Hovis, who plays Carter, is actually a one-off character and instead the main gang includes a tailor named Vladimir Minsk. He never showed up again after the pilot, and that’s because Leonid Kinskey, who played him, was also Jewish and was so disturbed by the concept of a comedy with Nazis that he walked. (Kinskey is probably most famous for playing Sascha the bartender in Casablanca and was also a refugee from the Nazis.)

Thanks for posting this! He was really great on the show. Interestingly, while he was the only Jew to play a POW on the show, he was NOT the only Jew in the cast- all of the main actors who played Nazi officials (Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Leon Askin, and Howard Caine) were Jewish, and while Clary was the only Holocaust survivor, Klemperer, Banner, and Askin were refugees from the Nazis.

Wait she's not back?!

THANK YOU!! Also a great reminder that I need to watch S3 now that it's fully aired, I've been busy...

Man I love that show so much

On that note, watch Trying! Haven't gotten around to S3 yet but S1-2 are excellent- sweet, very funny, and with leads with phenomenal chemistry.

The question is how much they juiced it up on social media after it started, but yeah, I was watching it while it was airing (or rather I binged it the week the finale aired) and looked to see what was going on on Twitter afterward and it started off small and really escalated over time before it exploded.