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  • Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Fourteen
    Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Fourteen

    Opening doors on this calendar has a habit of reminding me of sitcoms I had forgotten, not because they were no good, and not because I didn’t watch them (the opposite actually), but because my brain is small and full of Seinfeld quotes. So it is with The Naked Truth, which I saw on The…

  • Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Thirteen
    Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Thirteen

    Is it possible for a sitcom to exist for two long season in the US, and never be heard of ever again? It is possible for a sitcom that ran for two years on NBC as a lead in to The Golden Girls to have virtually nothing written about it anywhere? Why yes. Welcome to…

  • Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Twelve
    Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Twelve

    Hidden behind the little door today is not Twenty Twelve, the sitcom about the Olympics that spawned W1A, but The News At Twelve, a CITV show from 1988, about a boy who delivers a news bulletin to an imaginary audience. Shame there’s no clippage to share. Also within is the chocolate goodness isan Andrew Norriss…

  • Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Eleven
    Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Eleven

    We’ve mentioned Spanner’s Eleven already, so what are we going to find hidden and wrapped up neatly in the calendar today? Why, it’s Kappatoo, a Children’s ITV sci-fi sitcom written by Ben Steed. Denise Van Outen appeared in the first series of this, and Sarah Alexander in the second. And yes, that’s the voice of…

  • Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Ten
    Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Ten

    We might expect to find The 10%ers behind door ten, the Grant Naylor created Carlton sitcom from the mid 1990s, originally piloted as part of their Comedy Playhouse revival. But we don’t. Instead, within the foil wrapping we discover Jackson Pace: The Great Years. Wait, hang on, Andy Crane was on CITV? Anyway, Jackson Pace…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    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…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    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…

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