CBS All Access, the streaming service like Disney+, but using the ViacomCBS catalogue, is soon to be rebranded as Paramount+. This put me in mind of The Paramount Comedy Channel, because I’m stuck firmly in the 1990s. When the channel first launched, it was simply called The Paramount Channel, and like its streaming progeny, it…
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…
