Category: Sitcoms
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Proto Birds
Shooting The Pilot by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran is a remarkably good book by the writers and creators of The New Statesman and Birds Of A Feather (among so many others). As well as getting to read the pilot scripts for some of their best series, they also introduce each one with some great…
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Then Churchill Said To Me
It’s not unusual for an episode of a TV series to be postponed because of current events. There are numerous examples, such as Red Dwarf‘s Meltdown, or Bottom ‘S Up. But it is rare for an entire series to be shelved. Opening my Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy on a random page, I found…
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Proctology: A Bottom Examination
For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
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Reggie
Not included in the complete Reginald Perrin DVD boxset is this, the ABC remake of the show, starring Richard Mulligan and Timothy Busfield. It’s called Reggie, has a theme tune, and was adapted by Dinah and Julie Kirgo.
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Stir Crazy: The Sitcom
In 1980, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor starred in the hit movie Stir Crazy. It was written by Bruce Jay Friedman and directed by none other than Sidney Poitier. It made over $100 million at the box office, and was a smash hit on home video too. Here’s an article about the movie from the…
