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 drove off with the bear on the roof, and that ad absolutely terrified me. So, this scene, from The New Statesman, has always been hard for me to watch.
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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…
