Before Goodnight Sweetheart, two of its writers made a sitcom for Richard Griffiths and Frances de la Tour. It was called A Kind Of Living, and Paul Makin and Geoff Rowley wrote three series of it for ITV. Come for the sitcom, stay for the bad photoshopping in the title sequence. Laurence Marks and Maurice…
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…
