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Porridge Was Originally A BBC Two Show

There’s a reason I keep trawling old newpaper articles about comedy, and that’s partly to see what contemporaneous reviews really said, partly to see how shows were being publicised, and perhaps more so to find little nuggets of lost information (or new information to me, at least) like this about Porridge. I wonder how it…

May 26, 2022
BBC Announces 14 New Comedy Series

… in 1973. One of them is Last Of The Summer Wine. I expect one of those pilots might become Porridge.

April 23, 2022
Prolonging The Festivities

The frost and snow this morning make me want more Christmas for once.

December 29, 2020
What’s In The Box?

Tenuous thematic clips ahead.

December 26, 2020
Positively Enriching Situation Comedies

Here’s the overview of the BBC’s comedy output during 1977, as recorded in their annual report. Comedies including The Good Life and serials including I, Claudius shared pride of place during the year. Situation comedies, some of which were not only funny but positively enriching, again flourished on BBC Television. As usual much depended on…

December 2, 2020

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Proctology: A Bottom Examination

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…

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Re-Casting Keanu

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…