If you’ve never seen an episode of Bottom, then you might be forgiven for making a parody that completely misses the point of the show. Like this one, for example.
That mostrosity is from an ITV show called TV Squash. On paper, this sounds like something I’d want to watch. Made by Yorkshire Television in 1992, the idea was each episode would truncate the schedule of a network into half an hour, parodying that channel’s output. But if this is the level they managed, then buttocks to them.
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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…
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…
