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Posted December 28, 2018 -  No Comment

From the Vault: It’s 1968 and ‘The Morecambe and Wise Show’ premieres

Upon the recent discovery of lost episodes, we’re setting the Wayback Machine to the beginnings of the sketch comedy series.

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Posted December 26, 2018 -  No Comment

Beyond great telly: The history of Boxing Day

The origin of the name “Boxing Day” alone is the topic of endless argument.

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Posted December 25, 2018 -  No Comment

Her Majesty The Queen’s Christmas Message – 2018

The first televised Christmas broadcast by The Queen was also broadcast live from Sandringham House in Norfolk in 1957.

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Posted December 23, 2018 -  No Comment

John Cleese’s classic rendition of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Never mind that there have been endless readings over the years by the likes of Art Carney, Bob Dylan, Elton John — we’re talking classic Python here.

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Posted December 21, 2018 -  No Comment

From the Vault: A ‘Good Neighbors’ Christmas classic

See the clip where Margot shows her disdain for a delivery person who has brought an 8 1/2-foot Christmas tree when she obviously ordered a 9-foot one.

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Posted December 20, 2018 -  No Comment

Die Hard: The greatest Christmas story ever told? Not in Britain.

I know the people of Britain have spoken, but I have to say, I include ‘Die Hard’ every year on my must-see Christmas movie watch list. 

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Posted December 19, 2018 -  No Comment

The TARDIS lands on New Year’s Day as The Doctor encounters a ‘terrifying evil’

From the looks of the New Year’s Special trailer (and Jodie Whittaker’s rainbow scarf), fans are in for a brilliant kick-off to 2019.

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Posted December 12, 2018 -  No Comment

‘The ABC Murders’ with John Malkovich is the Boxing Day highlight on BBC One

The tradition of having some of the best telly on telly continues this holiday season with a number of specials coming to the UK courtesy of BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

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Posted December 11, 2018 -  No Comment

Nothing rings in a new year like a new series of ‘Luther’!

Gear up to watch Idris Elba aka DCI John Luther hunt down “a new nightmare” Jan 1-4.

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Posted November 30, 2018 -  No Comment

From the Vault: It’s a pre-‘Phantom of the Opera’ British Christmas with Michael Crawford

How did he prepare for 1,300 performances as the Phantom? On ’70s British comedy ‘Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em.’

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