We’re more used to hearing Geoffrey Palmer doing adverts, rather than seeing him in one. This, for example.
So it’s nice to get a look at him trying to flog us Lamb. This is around 1990, so it’s a while after Hot Metal, and a couple of years before As Time Goes By. They seem to be using him, rather than any of his characters.
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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…
