I just made a Cherry Cake because I saw so many of them on my re-watch of You Rang M’Lord?. It got me thinking, because that series can’t have been the only sitcom to have been expanded to fill an hour slot. Certainly, Only Fools And Horses went that way too. And over on ITV,…
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…
