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Rick’s A B’Stard

This moment from The New Statesman Comic Relief Special still brings me absolute joy. I’d not seen this one before, which is from a 2006ish episode of that godawful, thankfully no longer on show This Week.

June 9, 2021
The Groovy Fellers And Ken Bishop’s Nice Twelve

It just wouldn’t be the new year without a bit of Jools Holland now, would it? So, it came to pass, that on the first day of 2021, I learned that Jools Holland had his own sitcom on Channel Four called The Groovy Fellers. Co-written with his co-star Rowland Rivron, the episodes were 50 minutes…

January 1, 2021
Snakes & Ladders

Sometimes Twitter is lovely, and someone you follow shows you something that you didn’t know about. Yesterday, that meant CuriousBritishTelly directing me to a sitcom I know nothing about, to my surprise. Snakes & Ladders was written by Marks & Gran, and starred Adrian Edmondson and John Gordon-Sinclair. It was on Channel 4 in the…

November 16, 2020
Sex

… according to Kevin Turvey. And again.

June 17, 2020
7 You Tubular Algy Rhythms

For want of anything else to write about today, here are the first seven videos that YouTube is recommending I watch today. So, let’s watch them together.

April 6, 2020

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…