When Richard Whiteley opened the first episode of Countdown on Channel 4, way back in 1982, he said: As the countdown to a brand new channel ends, a brand new Countdown begins. You may know that the show borrows its format from a French show called Des Chiffres Et Des Lettres (Numbers & Letters), which looks a…
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…
