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Everything’s Relative (Twice)

Mitchell Hurwitz created a sitcom about a man who is trying to rid himself of a troublesome family. It starred Jeffrey Tambor. It was not Arrested Development. A few years before he created that show, he created Everything’s Relative, for NBC. It was cancelled after just four episodes, leaving two more unaired. It’s not to…

February 2, 2022
Listen Up!

After the demise of Bob Patterson, Jason Alexander would return to the sitcom scene in 2004, with CBS’s Listen Up! (yup, it has that exclamation mark). The series was developed by Jeff Martin, a long time writer of The Simpsons, and was based loosely on the life of sports writer Tony Kornheiser. Consider the fate…

April 28, 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…