Hyacinth Bucket, played brilliantly by Patricia Routledge, has spent a lifetime in our collective homes over the years insisting her surname is pronounced Bouquet. She is pretty much a pompous social-climbing snob. Unbeknownst to most neighbor residents of Blossom Lane, Hyacinth originally came from a very poor working-class background. Her main mission in life is […]
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UPDATE: Leading up to the August 23 premiere of Season 2 on PBS, McKellen and Jacobi will serve as Grand Marshals of New York City’s 46th Annual Pride March on Sunday, June 28, the largest gay pride parade in the United States. Joining them as Grand Marshals are J. Christopher Neal, a New York artist […]
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The ‘small rouge one’ is set to return for two new series in 2016 and 2017. Speaking at Dimension Jump XVIII, series co-creator, Doug Naylor, announced that Dave (the home of witty banter in the UK) has commissioned not one, but TWO series of Red Dwarf. The last time viewers were treated to the space exploits of […]
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It’s no secret that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their second baby. What they might have been trying to keep secret is that when the time is right for the royal bundle to arrive, Prince William knows exactly who to call. While the Queen stands ready to lend a helping hand when […]
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There’s something about British comedy over the course of time that makes you wonder how two people could ever hook-up much less cross paths. You know, those like Basil and Sybil Fawlty who are constantly at each others throats but you get the sense that neither of them would survive without the other. The same […]
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The ITV comedy satire series, Newzoids, is no Spitting Image but, then again, not much is. Not to say, in any way, that it’s not funny. It’s just a different show and a different time. While it will, undoubtedly, suffer from endless comparisons, Newzoids deserves a chance given the fact that satire is much harder in […]
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Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise had a professional partnership that lasted for more than 4 decades, from 1941 until Eric Morcambe’s death in 1984. One of the most famous Morecambe and Wise routines from their annual Christmas show was their comic parody of Gene Kelly’s ‘Singing in the Rain’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3GqaQkhuYw This week’s Tellyspotting #TBT happens […]
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Ever have ‘one of those days’? I’m guessing the answer might just be yes when you factor in ‘one of those days’ probably had an April 15 date attached to it in years past. You know, Tax Day. The day that, before the brilliant invention of e-filing, you sat in what seemed to be an endless […]
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David Mitchell has signed on to star as William Shakespeare in a BBC sitcom pilot by Ben Elton (Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line). Focusing on the playwright’s life before he became famous, the storyline for Upstart Crow, according to the BBC, revolves around a purloined play, a wise wife, a stroppy teen and the underhand […]
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Britain’s Royal Mail rolled out a long-overdue collection of stamps celebrating British comedy greats on Wednesday, April 1. Thankfully, this was no April Fools Day joke. The brilliant set features British comedy greats from the 1950s to the modern day, from Norman Wisdom and Morecambe and Wise to Spike Milligan and Victoria Wood. Stamps featuring […]
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