Tag: Coronation Street

  • The Sitcom Pilot Hidden In An Episode Of Coronation Street
    The Sitcom Pilot Hidden In An Episode Of Coronation Street

    I’ve been on a little bit of a YouTube wander this morning. It started with this episode of Clive James On Television. I didn’t watch the whole thing, but the ads and continuity at the beginning is what started it. The episode is from 17th August 1988. It was the trail for the sitcom The […]

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    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
    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 […]

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