Snakes And Ladders – Simon Dunn

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Clips And Ladders

We’ve looked at the sitcom Snakes And Ladders before, written as it was by the brilliant Marks And Gran, and co-starring Adrian Edmondson. Here’s how the first episode of the series was reviewed by James Green in The Stage, on the 12th October 1989 (just a few days before the writers’ other sitcom, Birds Of…

May 18, 2022
Snakes & Ladders

Sometimes Twitter is lovely, and someone you follow shows you something that you didn’t know about. Yesterday, that meant CuriousBritishTelly directing me to a sitcom I know nothing about, to my surprise. Snakes & Ladders was written by Marks & Gran, and starred Adrian Edmondson and John Gordon-Sinclair. It was on Channel 4 in the…

November 16, 2020

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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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…