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You Have Been Watching …

At the end of series seven of Grange Hill, something unusual happens. The end credits look like this. Ordinarily, the credits look like this. Usually a bold colour background, and a complementary colour for the text. And rarely, if ever, the same combination twice between episodes. But for this episode, they proceed in a sort…

August 23, 2020
You Have Been Watching …

I watched Predator the other evening, and it’s good silly fun. I like the story Carl Weathers tells about how none of them, except Arnie (I think), wanted to admit they worked out, and insisted their physique was all natural. So they would all get up at 2 or 3 in the morning and sneak…

April 19, 2020
I Think Special Patrol Group Is A Stupid Name For A Hamster

When I watch old/classic comedy, I like it when arcane things crop up, and I learn something about the past I never knew. For example, thanks to Steptoe & Son, I finally learned that ‘brassic’ is rhyming slang (Brassic Lint – Skint), and thanks to Hi-De-Hi, I learned that you used to be able to…

November 28, 2017

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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…