Tag: Valerie

  • A Sitcom With Three Names
    A Sitcom With Three Names

    It happens. Some shows get re-tooled, for budget reasons, or contractual reasons, and change enough that the network feels the show needs to be renamed. But why did Valerie become Valerie’s Family? And why did Valerie’s Family become The Hogan Family? When it comes to litigious temper tantrums, none this season can compare to the…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    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
    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…

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