Porridge attracted an audience of 5,376,000 viewers, making it the tenth most watched programme on BBC1 for the period 22nd - 28th August 2016.
One of four sitcoms to be revived for the BBC sitcom season.
Nigel Norman Fletcher is the second named grandson of Norman Stanley Fletcher to bear his grandfather's name, after Norman Godber, the son of Lennie and Ingrid in Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher (2003).
Pilot for a sequel series to 'Porridge' (1973-77). Full series commissioned in early 2017.
Dave Hill had previously appeared in an episode of Going Straight (1978) opposite Ronnie Barker as Nigel Fletcher's grandfather Norman.