Category: Sitcoms
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10 Fascinating Facts About The Iconic British Sitcom ‘Blackadder’ You Never Knew
I’m still ill, so I asked an AI to write a blog post about a sitcom that everyone likes – this is what it wrote. It even got some of the facts so wrong they’re brilliant. If you’re a fan of British sitcoms, you’re probably familiar with “The Office.” However, there’s another classic British sitcom…
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It Was A Back Tooth, Hank
Apologies for the lack of posts recently, I’ve been staving off illness. So let’s start the week as we mean to go on, with a couple of quick clippings about The Larry Sanders Show. First, this review, which makes the helpful argument that Terry Wogan isn’t like this, and hits all the obvious other beats…
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Some Partridge Bookends
I’ve shared this clip before, but it strikes me how oddly incongruent this moment is. The Techincal BAFTAs take a moment out of their time to have this sketch, for no other reason that just because. It’s especially strange, considering how new the Partridge character was on screens – this was even before Knowing Me,…
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Roy Clarke’s The Animal Man
Here’s an article from Television Today in the The Stage from 24th November 1983. In it, we see an announcement for The Kit Curran Radio Show, Fresh Fields, Chance In A Million, and a number of other Thames produced ITV sitcoms. But what sticks out to me is the intriguing, and deliberately vague, description of…
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America Gets The Birds
We’ve looked before at the FOX network’s remake of Birds Of A Feather. It was called Stand By Your Man, starred Rosie O’Donnell, and aired in the US in the spring of 1992. Whilst looking at clippings for Keeping Up Appearances, I came across this interesting article … It’s from the Mirror on Saturday 27th…
