You may recognise Lord Rustless from Hark At Barker. Three years later, his Lordship moved from ITV over to the BBC, and began running his estate as a hotel. His Lordship Entertains was written by Ronnie Barker, under the pseudonym Jonathan Cobbald, and was dirtected by Harold Snoad. It ran for seven episodes in the…
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…
