Health & Efficiency – Simon Dunn

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Don’t Slam Your Podcast!

Don’t Slam Your Podcast! is a podcast all about the sitcom 2point4 Children. It’s great, and takes an in-depth look at the show episode by episode, including interviews with show creator Andrew Marshall. So it was a great pleasure to be asked on to talk about the sister show Health and Efficiency.

February 20, 2022
The Doctor And The Bastard Bunny

A lot of thought must go into some of the props that surround characters, and more so into the ones that the actors are holding. Excluding ones that are there for plot reasons, the type of mug the boss holds, or the sort of book a friend reads, all speak to that character. Here, in…

May 5, 2021
Health & 2point4 Children

It’s always fun to stumble across a shared universe, and finding a new one in a pair of British sitcoms is even better. I’m not talking about spin-offs here, which are overtly shared universes (think Man About The House, Robin’s Nest, and George & Mildred), but ones that are almost unspoken. And one such exists…

May 3, 2021

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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

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…