Trivia / Bread (1986)

• The Other Darrin: Peter Howitt (Joey) left in the 1988 Christmas Special and was replaced by Graham Bickley and Gilly Coman (Aveline) also left in the 1988 Christmas Special and was replaced by Melanie Hill.
• Underage Casting: Grandad's actor Kenneth Waller was actually 14 years younger than the character he played. Grandad was born in 1913 while Waller was born in 1927.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Following the end of the series, Jonathon Morris announced his desire for a follow-up series about his character, theatrical poet Adrian, feeling that the character 'had a lot of potential and a lot of stories yet to tell beyond the Bread setting', and suggested the premise of Adrian moving down to London in hopes of cracking the bigger theatrical scene. He proposed his idea to the BBC and even announced his hopes for the series during an appearance in March 1991 on Saturday morning programme Going Live! as filming for the final series of Bread was drawing to a close. The BBC declined on the suggestion; Morris went on to co-write a one-man play based around Adrian which he intended to tour with, and also in hope of using it as an example to The BBC of what could be done with the character. The project was eventually dropped, due to ownership rights for the character with Carla Lane.
  • In 2017, it was reported that the BBC was considering reviving the series with much of the surviving cast, with Graham Bickley returning as Joey Boswell, now effectively head of the household, and Jean Boht playing the now elderly Nellie Boswell ("Gran"), in essence serving as a vaguely more mild-mannered version of Grandad from the original series. The series was set to revive the tale of the Boswell clan 25 years later, with several of their family's offspring born since the end of the original series, to feature as regular characters. However, the proposal was eventually dropped when the rights couldn't be settled with Carla Lane's estate, and the BBC later confirmed that they would not be proceeding with the project.
• Word of God: Carla Lane mused that the Boswell family seen here may well be distantly related to the Boswell family seen in her previous 1970's sitcom The Liver Birds.

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