Porridge (TV series) Fletcher's gormless son, Raymond. The series lasted six episodes, and generally was not as well received as its predecessor, although it did win two BAFTAs, for Best Situation Comedy and Best Light Entertainment Performance (jointly with "The Two Ronnies") for Ronnie Barker. On 29 December 2003, a mockumentary follow-up to "Porridge" was broadcast on BBC Two. It looked back on Fletcher's life and how the various inmates of Slade had fared 25 years after Fletcher's release from prison. Warren is now a sign painter, Lukewarm is married to Trevor, McLaren is an MSP, Grouty has become a celebrity gangster, Horrible
The Jewel in the Crown (TV series) to outsiders is not romanticized, just contemplated, celebrated, just as its intoxicating physical beauty is." In reviewing the box-set video in 2010, Alexandra Coghlan of "The Guardian" wrote that the series "sits alongside Brideshead Revisited as the high-water mark of 1980s British TV." The Jewel in the Crown (TV series) The Jewel in the Crown is a 1984 British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during and after World War II, based upon the "Raj Quartet" novels (1965–75) by British author Paul Scott. Granada Television produced the series for the ITV network. The serial