Final weekend revered manufacturing firm obtained the Lyell Longford Award on the AACTA Awards and appeared to a packed viewers for a Q+A hosted by Ed Kavalee.

Kavalee requested what was the key to them staying collectively for nearly 40 years?

Rob Sitch replied, “It’s fascinating how we attain settlement. I believe it’s solely ever labored when all of us are actually enthusiastic. Everybody’s bought the thrill, if you pitch an thought, .. if somebody pauses, it’s useless.”

“There’s so many concepts.,” Santo Cilauro agreed. “Now we have whiteboards in all places with concepts for all kinds of stuff, and concepts that in all probability we haven’t even talked about to one another as a result of it’s both not the best time or they’re not fairly prepared for it. However there’s at all times stuff floating round.”

Requested about Thank God You’re Right here producer Michael Hirsh confirmed there had been 32 completely different variations around the globe, together with in Russia (“You’ll by no means get the cash and should you do will probably be in a brown paper bag”) and China which Cilauro recalled required one season -of 52 episodes.

“We’d completed 4 seasons and we nonetheless hadn’t completed 52 exhibits!” Cilauro laughed.

Tom Gleisner recalled, “They stated we couldn’t do a situation that made enjoyable of law enforcement officials or docs. Once we stated, ‘What about this one? It’s dad and mom going out and a foul babysitter?’ They stated, ‘No. One Little one Coverage, we don’t have babysittters.’”

Jane Kennedy even recalled Oprah Winfrey constructing a set in Chicago. “You may YouTube it. Oprah Winfrey Thank God You’re Right here. She did two eventualities she cherished it a lot.”

The Italian model needed the present prolonged to a few hours and used three judges, floating an thought of sluggish movement replays of individuals strolling by doorways, which Santo rejected.

“Then she stated, effectively what’s our semi-nude going to do?” he recalled.

“I used to be laughing as a result of they’d a technical time period for somebody on tv referred to as the semi-nude. Then she stated, ‘I’ll have you realize she’s bought a legislation diploma!’”

Consideration additionally turned to The Fort and whether or not they would contemplate a sequel.

“We’ve been requested that query so many instances,” stated Jane Kennedy. “I believe even the movie distribution firm positively needed us to do it, revenue smart, I believe.”

“I keep in mind once we stated ‘No, there is not going to be a sequel to The Fort,” Cilauro added, ” and he checked out us and stated, ‘Prequel?’”

“I believe he was suggesting that Daryl wins the lottery, or one thing like that,” stated Kennedy.

The crew even turned down a proposal for Tom Hanks in an American model, with the main focus shifting to the lawyer and a constitutional case within the Supreme Court docket. Michael Hirsh stated they had been steadily approached to make use of the characters in TV commercials.

“We’ve stated no to all the things. No sequels, no prequels, nothing. We’re simply maintaining the movie as it’s, as a result of all of us really feel it’s a particular movie.”

With that the room applauded.