North Hobart’s ‘Room for a Pony’ restaurant would appeal to both Hyacinth and Onslow!

Even though it’s highly doubful that one of the best restaurants in Australia get its name from Hyacinth Bucket’s description of her sister Violet’s successful lifestyle, it is fun to think that the owners of Room for a Pony in North Hobart are long-time fans of the classic British comedy, Keeping Up Appearances. Unlike Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream out of […]

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When in Coventry, head over to Hyacinth and Richard Bucket’s house and a brush with British comedy greatness.

Filmed in locations across the West Midlands, the most iconic location, Hyacinth and Richard Bucket’s home, was a quiet family home in Coventry before television crews knocked on the door of current owner Rosemary Healey to ultimately set up shop for what was to become Hyacinth’s famous house, along with her neighbor, Elizaben Warden’s home […]

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‘Young Hyacinth’ discusses who would be her ‘Young Richard’

Young Hyacinth premiered last week as part of the BBC’s Landmark Sitcom Season along with other ‘tip-of-the-hat’ specials including Goodnight Sweetheart, Porridge and Are You Being Served?. Having now had the opportunity to be able to screen all of them, I thought the Keeping Up Appearances prequel starring Kerry Howard worked exceptionally well. Even though the one-off was brilliantly written by […]

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First glimpse of ‘Young Hyacinth’ set for September on BBC

If nothing else, Young Hyacinth, the forthcoming BBC prequel to the classic Roy Clarke series, Keeping Up Appearances, will give audiences a bit of insight as to how a 19-year-old Hyacinth from humble beginnings turned into an over-bearing, social-climbing snob with a penchant for slimline telephones with automatic redial, Royal Doulton china with hand-painted periwinkles, candlelight suppers. In […]

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Start your ovens! ‘The Great British Baking Show’ set for July 1 return to PBS!

The UK’s ultimate baking battle, The Great British Bake-Off, is back on PBS in America beginning July 1! Once again for 2016, armed with it’s official U.S. title for PBS, Planet Earth’s favorite baking show, The Great British Baking Show, returns for a new series beginning Friday, July 1 at 9p ET/8p CT. The series features cookery writer Mary Berry […]

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Downton Abbey profile: Mrs. Patmore

U.S. members of Downton Abbey-Nation are waking up daily to the realization that every day Planet Earth rotates on its’ axis means we are one day closer to the Sunday, January 3, 2016 return of the most-watched drama in the history of PBS. What better way to keep our collective separation anxiety at bay than to take […]

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