After seven series and 70+ episodes, the staff at the Warrington branch of Valco supermarket will say goodbye as Trollied closes its doors for the final time this Christmas. Sky One’s long-running sitcom will return for a one-hour finale with store manager Gavin Strong (Being Human‘s Jason Watkins) still standing strong at the helm. In addition to Watkins, Trollied stars Chanel Cresswell […]
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And Now for Something Completely Different. New signage near the plaza and in sight of the historic courthouse in Sulphur Springs, Texas, has residents and tourists alike walking a bit differently these days.
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David Mitchell returns in the main role of William Shakespeare when the third series of the Ben Elton comedy Upstart Crow begins Wednesday, August 29 at 8.30pm on BBC Two. This time around we’ll see busy at work and home as he struggles to juggle his roles as father, husband, commuter and literary genius. Series 3 will also see […]
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Stephen Mangan (Green Wing, I’m Alan Partridge, Dirk Gently, Episodes) heads an all-star cast that reads like a who’s who of British comedy in Hang Ups, beginning Wednesday at 10p on Channel 4. Mangan stars as Dr. Richard Pitt, an unconventional therapist trying to keep his life, and patients, from falling apart. Starring alongside Mangan, who […]
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Recently unearthed material in the private archives of Monty Python member Michael Palin has revealed some oddly interesting sketches that, ultimately, never made it to the final version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Palin gave the British Library his archives last June, a majority of which has been catalogued and is already available in the library’s […]
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In the overall British comedy landscape, The Benny Hill Show had more than its share of slapstick, mime and double entendre during its brilliant run from the mid-50s up until the British sketch comedy series was cancelled in the late 80s. A steady decline in ratings and what was, at the time, a very high production cost of approximately £450,000 […]
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At long last, Red Dwarf returns to public television stations in America this month (Saturdays at 11p beginning July 21 on KERA in North Texas). For the remaining individual that has lived under a rock for the past few years, the series returns with twelve new episodes which make up Red Dwarf XI and XII. Returning to the Starbug are Craig […]
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Earlier this year, UK audiences welcomed back John Cleese in Hold the Sunset. While it had been 43 years since the comic genius last appeared in a BBC sitcom, his last one, Fawlty Towers, didn’t do too bad for itself given it will forever be recognized as perhaps the best sitcom of all-time. For those expecting to see […]
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Capping off a banner roller coaster year in British politics in 2017, ABC Australia borrowed a bit from, arguably, the best comedy film of all-time, incorporating many of the Prime Minister’s most stirring soundbites from last June’s general election in which she deemed Britain was in dire need of certainty, stability and strong leadership following the […]
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As co-writer and co-director of BBC’s The Office, Stephen Merchant is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais. The British writer, director, radio presenter, stand-up comedian and actor added a London West-End appearance a couple of years ago to his CV with his first play, The Mentalists by Richard Bean, alongside Steffan Rhodri at the Wyndham Theatre. Known for his brilliant command of […]
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