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Posted July 18, 2012 - No Comment

Doctor Who books at Fawlty Towers

Posted July 18, 2012 - No Comment

Best Bohemian Rhapsody – Doctor Who, Wayne Campbell or The Muppets

The highly anticipated San Diego Comic Con standing room only panel of Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill did nothing but remind us of just how much everyone is looking forward to August and the series 7 premiere of Doctor Who. Yes, we’ll be sad when one particular episode bids a tearful goodbye to […]

Posted July 17, 2012 - No Comment

PBS delivers Call the Midwife in September

BBC mega-hit, Call the Midwife has due date of September 30 on PBS When Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) first arrives in London’s East End, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty or indeed, life itself. Raised in the wealthy English countryside, she’s previously spent time in Paris and could have chosen any career. But she chose […]

Posted July 16, 2012 - No Comment

Patricia Routledge lends efforts to order of nuns who rarely watch telly

At 82, Patricia Routledge, the star of Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has not slowed one bit. Following up her 1995 series-ending role as Hyacinth, then moving on to play the crime-solving Hetty Wainthropp, Ms. Routledge continued a long, storied career in both film and musical theatre, including her most recent role as […]

Posted July 15, 2012 - No Comment

Brit TV rumours that are too good to be true

If no one has denied them…are they still rumours? Thankfully, neither of these bits of information came to me on April Fools Day. If they do come to pass, the fact that both came across my desk on Friday the 13th should so change the way we all look at this fateful day from this […]

Posted July 13, 2012 - No Comment

Basil Fawlty, the paton saint of Friday the 13th

For many, Friday the 13th may be the one day where your actions (or inactions) range from staying inside, avoiding black cats, walk way out of your way to prevent you from walking under ladders, or even attempting to avoid buildings that have a 13th floor. Unfortunately, for Basil Fawlty, every day is Friday the […]

Posted July 12, 2012 - No Comment

MTV UK's Geordie Shore does Downton Abbey

What would the Dowager Countess say? Ok, while I don’t profess to have ever seen an episode of Geordie Shore, the British adaptation of the U.S. series, Jersey Shore, I have heard of it so, of course, that makes me an expert, right? Set in and around Newcastle Upon Tyne and South Shields, the series […]

Posted July 11, 2012 - No Comment

Does dumbing down of British comedy signal the End of Civilization as we know it?

This is a long one folks so bear with me…. After almost three years of tellyspotting, I continue to have a thought regarding a genre that I’m particularly fond of….British situation comedy. Having grown up on the likes of such classics as Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Good Neighbors, To the Manor Born, Keeping Up Appearances, […]

Posted July 10, 2012 - No Comment

You know you're a British comedy fan if….

Longtime British comedy fan and faithful tellyspotting reader, Lisa Cox, has compiled a brilliant list that leaves the likes of Jeff Foxworthy in the rearview mirror not knowing what hit him. No matter what corner of the globe you find yourself in, I’m banking on the fact that you are a big British comedy fan […]

Posted July 9, 2012 - No Comment

The Fresh Prince of Downton Abbey

Daily, I take a brief moment to thank whomever I can that there are extremely creative people on the planet with an incredible amount of time on their hands. First their was Jimmy Fallon and Downton Sixbey, then, there was Downton Arbys. Now…. For those that have spent an agonizing last couple of years marveling […]