The Royal Variety Performance
The Royal Variety Performance 1912 - Present
The Royal Variety performance is the Great British Tradition of a gala evening attended by senior members of the Royal Family.
It's first performance was in the ...
From Radio To TV, Teenage Kicks
Teenage Kicks, 2008
This forgotten gem started life in 2007 as a sitcom on BBC Radio 2. It was a year later that it was picked up by Phil McIntyre Productions and launched as a TV sitcom on ITV.
Editor's Not...
Ant And Dec Take On The Likely Lads
No Hiding Place, A Tribute To The Likely Lads, 2002
Probably the best known episode of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, but with a twist. This particular episode, originally screened as part of series on...
Les Dawson, An Audience With That Never Was
Shortly before his untimely death in 1993, Les Dawson had been invited to record an an ediion of the popular An Audience With.. series.
The set was ready, the audience booked, but sadly the star died two wee...
Benidorm, 2007
Fun in the sun. Benidorm is the hugely popular ITV sitcom that to date (2016) has run for eight series, with a ninth commissioned for airing in 2017.
It's clocked up a mammoth fifty six episodes since it fi...
Newzoids
After the end of Spitting Image there was a gap left for biting political satire. Five years after came 2DTV. Lasting five series that ended in 2004. Next was Headcases, in 2008 that lasted just one series. ...
A Less Glamorous Look At Ancient Rome
Plebs, 2013
This series has been compared to: The Inbetweeners, Up Pompeii and Blackadder. First broadcast in 2013 it's third series will air in April and if recent media reports are anything to go by expect ...
Creature Comforts, 2003
A Sunday night classic. Creature comforts made it's TV debut on ITV Sunday nighs back in 2003, but the characters themselves had first popped up in a 1989 British humorous animated short film of the same name....
Ladies Of Letters, 2009
This sitcom started life on BBC Radio 4, in 1997. Here it was broadcast in 15-minute episodes as part of BBC Radio 4's long running magazine program Woman's Hour. On radio it starred Patricia Routledge and P...
Vicious, 2013
Vicious is the ITV sitcom that first aired in April 2013. To date there have been six episodes and a Christmas Special. Early ratings for the first episode were quite high at just under 6 million, not surprisin...