Category: British
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2point4 Christmasses
By the end of just its second series, 2point4 Children was given a well-deserved Christmas slot in 1992. It aired on the 22nd December, the day before Waiting For God‘s first festive special, and was watched by 9.5 million people. To put that in some perspective, a repeat of The Good Life that same week…
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Dickens In A Twist
This tweet, from the always excellent @russty_russ sparked a memory for me. So I thought I’d delve into the newspaper archives and see if I could tell the story through some clippings. It all begins in Aberdeen, on the 6th April 1998. But the news spread as far as Dublin too. It’s fair to say…
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Till Christmas Us Do Part
After taking a long look at the press coverage of the Only Fools And Horses festive editions, we saw that a lot of the channels’ focus was on movies. I assumed this was a relatively recent thing, from the mid-1980s onwards, but twas ever thus. It’s well worth clicking the image and reading it all…
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Only Yules And Horses (Part Five)
Given the huge ratings success of Only Fools And Horses‘ finale trilogy, I suppose it was inevitable there would be pressure from all angles to return to the show. Whatever one might think of the choice to make more, the news of that was oddly low key. And here’s how the Dublin Evening Herald previewed…
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Only Yules And Horses (Part Four)
And so we come to the (first) finale trilogy of Only Fools And Horses. The show had been off our screens for three years, and this was going to be the big farewell. Surely the press were going to be all over this landmark Christmas television event. Let’s find out … The news was announced…
