Let’s have a look at just how mis-promoted 2point4 Children was by the BBC, given that it was such a popular sitcom. Here’s a number of Christmas 1996 promos, featuring the voices (I think) of Tony Hawks and Kate Robbins.
Here’s a junction from 1993, that still doesn’t really sell the tone of the show.
But then, even from the start it never quite understood its own show.
This one ends with a filthy joke.
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
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…
