Category: British
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The Rear Guard
On Tuesday the 10th August 1976, ABC aired the pilot of The Rear Guard. Based on Dad’s Army, the premise relocates the action to the American Civil Defence auxillary force, and is based on the British version’s episode The Deadly Attachment.
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The Minister Of Divine
The first show greenlit in the 2007 pilot season by Fox was The Minister Of Divine. It was a remake of The Vicar Of Dibley, and it was announced in Variety, using the weird vernacular of the showbiz press. Fox has greenlit its first full-fledged comedy pilot of the fall 2007 development season: the Suzanne…
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Ffizz
Ffizz is one of those sitcoms that passed me by, and only thanks to the folks at Network, did I ever get a chance to visit it recently. Written by Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss, who went on to create The Brittas Empire, it features fantastic appearances from Richard Griffiths and Benjamin Whitrow. They are…
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The Guest House Paradiso Game
On the DVD release of Guest House Paradiso, there’s a DVD-ROM game that looks like this. I have a question. Why does Richie look like Brendan Gleason?
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Teddy Bear In Peril
For some reason, seeing a teddy bear in peril really upsets me. Probably because I had such a strong bond with my teddy growing up. There was an advert for I don’t know what, where a kid rested his teddy on the car roof as he was being put inside the car, and the car…
