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The Detectives

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen The Detectives. I may not have even seen it since it was first broadcast. The sitcom began life as a run of sketches on Canned Carrott. It ran for five series between 1993 and 1997, and was written by Mike Whitehill and Steve Knight. Unusually for the…

February 19, 2022
Carrott Canned

I was watching 24 Carrott Gold yesterday, a show I’ve not seen for years, but one which I recorded on VHS and watched a lot of. The broadcast version was a good half an hour shorter than the released version though, so there were bits of it that I hadn’t seen before. I think one…

February 18, 2022
Canned Carrott

Here’s one of the more well known advert spoofs from Canned Carrott. Canned Carrott ran for two series in the early 1990s, and lead to the sitcom The Detectives. It also feautred Punt and Dennis around the time they were also doing The Mary Whitehouse Experience.

February 17, 2022

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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…