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Mr Bean’s Limited Potential On Radio

Considering that it went on to win the Rose D’Or, be watched by upwards of 18 million people, and spawned two movies that have grossed half a billion dollars between them, Mr Bean arrived on our screens with a relative whisper. The first mention of the show appears in this article about Paul Bown, star […]

June 7, 2022
Today’s Mood

The details in this are great. The A-Team duvet, the chamber pot, the electric meter.

September 3, 2020
Advertising Beans

Here’s a collection of adverts featuring Mr Bean, some British, some from overseas. Here’s the English language version of that one.

August 25, 2020
What’s The Opposite Of Mr Bean?

There’s not enough Mr Bean on this site, so what better way to remedy that than with an episode of setisoppO, wherein we work out his opposite. Along the way we also do Doom, and Cluedo. Here’s Mr Bean on This Morning.

July 17, 2020
Not Necessarily Rowan Atkinson

This is interesting. A rare interview with Rowan Atkinson, this time for Good Morning America, in which he plugs Blackadder and the new ‘pilot’ Mr Bean. Here’s the US version of Not The Nine O’Clock News he mentions.

March 18, 2020

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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 […]