The Windsors on stage - small Dallas reference

[Sarah]

How TV's The Windsors is making its unregal stage debut

The creator and cast of the royal comedy satire take us behind the scenes of their West End show.

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The Windsors has been running on Channel 4 since 2016 - a wild comic satire which has always put the rude before the regal. Now the show's transferring to the stage in London, with some of the TV cast.

The writer says the script of The Windsors: Endgame will try to keep up with the latest royal headlines, but that sometimes there are just too many to get in.

When scriptwriters Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie came up with the idea for a sitcom based on the UK Royal Family what loomed largest in their thoughts were two series from US TV. Neither show was a comedy but they each had a taste for excess and the overblown.

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Tyler-Moore says the concept was simple. "We decided to mash up the British royals with the feel of a big, glossy American soap. In a way it was a fantasy of how the producers of shows such as Dallas and Dynasty would have commissioned it.



The Windsors: Endgame is at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London until 9 October.

 

[Karin]

I've never even heard of this show before. Isn't "The Crown" more like a soap opera like Dallas?

I don't think Dallas was satire-comedy, or do you?

 

[Sarah]

I've never even heard of this show before. Isn't "The Crown" more like a soap opera like Dallas?

I don't think Dallas was satire-comedy, or do you?

It is a VERY funny show on Channel 4 here which really pokes fun at the Royals. Dallas satire comedy, absolutely not but I think what the article is saying is that they wanted to give the stage show some of the glitzy appeal that Dallas had