I think I can remember the very last show that I recorded on a VHS tape. I’m fairly sure that it was the Channel Four topical comedy show Gash, in 2003. It was one of the shows that Armando Iannucci made in between the Chris Morris years, Armistice, and The Thick Of It, and shared…
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…
