Category: Sitcoms
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A Very Normal Bottom
Here’s an article timed to promote the first series of Bottom, the beginning of Waiting For Godot, and the release of Drop Dead Fred, all in one go. It’s full of wrong info, and proceeds from the shocking premise that actors aren’t the characters they portray, but it’s worth a read nonetheless.
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The Thin Blue Clips
It won’t surprise you that as the BBC prepared to broadcast The Thin Blue Line, it got quite a bit of newspaper coverage. That was due to the return of Rowan Atkinson in a Ben Elton written sitcom. As with all these things, the earlier bits tend to try and tie them into the news…
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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…
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Girls On Top
As early as 1985, Jennifer Saunders was starring in not one, but two prime time sitcoms on the main channels. On BBC One, she played multiple characters in Ben Elton’s Happy Families, and during the same few weeks, she was over on ITV in Girls On Top. Here’s Tony Pratt’s patronising preview write up in…
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Waiting For Waiting For Godot
Ever since the first episode of Bottom came to an end, way back in 1991, and the continuity announcer told us that Rik and Ade were appearing in a production of Waiting For Godot, I’ve indelibly linked the two things together in my mind. For a long time, little information was to be found about…
