Category: Comedy
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The Lamentable Passing Of Brighton Belles Into Lore
The Golden Girls was one of the most watched US sitcoms for every season it ran between 1985 and 1991. We’ve looked at some of the international remakes of the show before, but let’s take a closer peek at the British version Brighton Belles. In 1992, Carlton Television was soon to take over the London…
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The Lenny Henry Show
The Lenny Henry Show enjoyed a very rare repeat last night on BBC Four, and it’s still up on iPlayer. It’s remarkable that this series isn’t more widely available, or available at all. The title has been used in a number of different ways through the years, on TV as the sketch show, and then…
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Explained: The Five Year Gap Between Series Of Lovejoy
I’m reading the first Lovejoy novel at the moment, for larks, and it’s not about the mischevious rogue we see on TV, but instead about a character with the same name who’s a violent, misogynistic grade-one arsehole. Who likes antiques. I’ve no idea why the book reviewer in the Belfast Telegraph calls him loveable, in…
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The Secret Clips Of Adrian Mole
I was aware that Adrian Mole began life in a slightly different guise on the radio, and that there was even a computer game about him, but I wasn’t aware that there was a stage play leading up to the first TV series. Here’s a review from The Stage of the Leicester production, on the…
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Filthy Rich And Catclips
Or When Rik Mayall Nearly Quit To Be A Teacher I really like Filthy, Rich And Catflap. As I say in Proctology: A Bottom Examination, it didn’t help that at times the show was being pushed as the natural successor to The Young Ones. Ben Elton, talking on The South Bank Show recalled the show…
