Cilla’s Six Sitcoms Shenanigans

September 14, 2020

Cilla’s Six Sitcoms Shenanigans

Cilla Black has made more sitcom pilots than you have. In fact, she’s made more sitcom pilots than most people have.

Here’s one of them.

This was the first episode in a series of six that were made by ATV in 1975 as part of a strand called Cilla’s Comedy Six.

She then made six more, a year later, also for ATV, this time branded as Cilla’s World Of Comedy.

This all stemmed from a sitcom segment in her BBC variety show Cilla, called The World of Cilla, in which Cilla played a bride to be, sitting in the final half hour of the one hour slot.

British, Comedy, Sitcoms

Cilla Black

<

>

Buy My Books

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…

Follow

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…