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More New Thames Sitcoms In Pipeline

Here’s an article from The Stage, published on Thursday 4th September 1980. That sitcom aired as The Incredible Mr Tanner, in February and March of 1981. But it wasn’t the first time that Cooke and Mortimer had written these characters. It’s actually a reworking of their 1971 sitcom Kindly Leave The Kerb, with the main…

July 7, 2022
More Bad News For Wogan

Here’s Bad News on Wogan from 2nd October 1987. Rik still has his Alan B’Stard hair under the wig, and Old Tel is game as ever.

July 6, 2022
Bad News-paper Clippings

Here’s an article from the Daily Mirror on the 14th July 1986. It’s about the upcoming appearance of Bad News at the Donnington festival. And here’s a follow up piece, from the same paper on the 3rd November.

July 5, 2022
A Bit Of Bitesize. Nice

Here’s John Thompson doing a bit for Bitesize circa 1997, and helping those taking their exams with revision and whatnot. Really nice.

July 4, 2022
The South Ben Show

Here’s Mr Bun Ulton on The South Bank Show from 1989.

July 3, 2022

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…