Category: British
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Su Pollard Takes The Plunge
Su Pollard is great in any sitcom she’s appeared in. I imagine she’s a fantastic live performer too, though I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing her in anything live. Nor did I get the chance to see her hosting the ITV gameshow Take The Plunge. And unfortunately, this is the only footage of the…
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Maria Charles’ NBC Sitcom Pilot
You may know Maria Charles from the ITV sitcom Agony (among many other roles including Never The Twain), which also starred Maureen Lipman. It ran for three series at the end of the 1970s and start of the 1980s, and was written by Len Richmond and Anna Raeburn. Charles played Lipman’s mother. The two reprised…
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The Complete History Of Masterchef (According To Vic And Bob)
Here’s a sketch from The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer, which provides a weird insight into the hidden cake phenomenon on today’s Internet. And here they are, mocking the same show, many years later on Shooting Stars. I think Vic and Bob like their food shows. But maybe not the newer ones so much.
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Mrs Murton’s Nightcap
The genesis of any TV show if often fascinating, as is the development of characters off-screen that later went on to be so famous for being on-screen. So here’s an amazing curio, the very first, unaired, pilot for Mrs Merton, known as she was then as Mrs Murton, offering us all a nice Nightcap. The…
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Baddiel And Skinner Unplanned … But With Australians
Because the title tells you everything you need to know, let’s at least follow the train of thought that led me to this discovery. I’ve had the theme tune from Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned stuck in my head, so I went and had a look at the show info, and was rather amazed to see…
