The Vicar Of Dibley – Simon Dunn

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The Minister Of Divine

The first show greenlit in the 2007 pilot season by Fox was The Minister Of Divine. It was a remake of The Vicar Of Dibley, and it was announced in Variety, using the weird vernacular of the showbiz press. Fox has greenlit its first full-fledged comedy pilot of the fall 2007 development season: the Suzanne…

October 31, 2021
The Grange Hill Sitcom Farm

Let’s take a closer look at a series six installment of Grange Hill. The reasons for this will soon become apparent. It’s episode six, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 18th January 1983. The title of the show is listed in some places as On Trial, but the on screen title is simply…

August 8, 2020
Stupid Sitcom Characters

The best stupid sitcom characters aren’t actually stupid at all. They have an intelligence with a flawless internal logic. Take Baldrick for example. In his two most memorable scenes, he’s not wrong, and his logic is impeccable. Especially in this. Something else that makes a ‘stupid’ character more intresting is to have them being inexplicably…

November 13, 2019

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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…