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Oatmeal Month

During this week’s recording of setisoppO, we learned that it’s Oatmeal Month. I have no idea what this actually means, other than it has put this ear worm in my head. Of course, there was a time when we were flogged porridge as a way of nuclear radiating our kids. Or as a way to…

January 13, 2020
On The Rocks

I have an unhealthy fascination with British sitcoms that have been remade as US shows, and some of the ones that fell through the cracks. We all know about the Red Dwarf USA pilot, or The Young Ones one, or the various efforts to port Fawlty Towers. And we all know about the mild successes…

January 31, 2019

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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…