Category: Sitcoms
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Goodnight Sweetheart
Goodnight Sweetheart was a sitcom with an interesting, and difficult premise. In their commentaries for the first series, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran talk about how important it was to cast someone like Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary Sparrow. Only someone as likeable as him could really pull it off. And they were right. In Shooting…
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Relative Strangers
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of Channel Four, and over on the excellent Broken TV site, there’s a series of articles about the 40 most watched shows in the channel’s history. It contains a few surprises, but the one that struck me the most was that none of Four’s best-remembered home-grown sitcoms made the list.…
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The Lamentable Passing Of Brighton Belles Into Lore
The Golden Girls was one of the most watched US sitcoms for every season it ran between 1985 and 1991. We’ve looked at some of the international remakes of the show before, but let’s take a closer peek at the British version Brighton Belles. In 1992, Carlton Television was soon to take over the London…
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The Lenny Henry Show
The Lenny Henry Show enjoyed a very rare repeat last night on BBC Four, and it’s still up on iPlayer. It’s remarkable that this series isn’t more widely available, or available at all. The title has been used in a number of different ways through the years, on TV as the sketch show, and then…
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The Secret Clips Of Adrian Mole
I was aware that Adrian Mole began life in a slightly different guise on the radio, and that there was even a computer game about him, but I wasn’t aware that there was a stage play leading up to the first TV series. Here’s a review from The Stage of the Leicester production, on the…
