Here’s another one of those sitcoms that I watched that sort of fell through the cracks of my memory. Dressing For Breakfast was written by Stephanie Calman, based on her book of the same name. It starred Beatie Edney and Holly Aird, and was on Channel Four for three series in the late nineties. You…
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…
