Yesterday marked the 57th anniversary of Kenneth Tynan swearing on BBC-3. No, not the youth channel, one of the follow-up series to That Was The Week That Was. There’s a bit about it here, in this episode of Comedy Is … that I made.
It’s widely regarded as the first intentional use of the F-word on British television, and it caused a bit of a furore at the time, as you can imagine.
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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…
