A Comic Look At Easing Lockdown

TV Comedy
Lockdown Easing Through The Eyes Of Sitcom? As we now have a plan for the easing we thought it might be amusing to tag what we can of the plan to sitcoms.  So here we go.March 8th - Return To School, meet ...

Grace And Favour

1990's BBC Comedy
Grace and Favour, 1992Retirement Grace Brothers’ style!Grace And Favour was the sequel off from the hugely successful Are You Being Served?The idea of a retirement home was first mentioned in the or...

Argos, End Of an Era?

Entertainment
The End Of An Era, But What Was Making us Laugh 48 Years Ago? This week catalogue retailer Argos announced the end of their famous catalogue, after 48 years.  we thought it might be interesting to turn the clo...
the cast of the 2016 remake of ae you being served line up

Is There Life In Those Old Shows?

TV Comedy
Is There Life In Those Old Shows? Part 3 -  Are You Being Served?In viewof the success of  UKTV's re-makes of the three missing Dad's Army Episodes, we're asking is there still life in the old shows, or sh...

Were These TV’s Most Controversial Sitcoms

TV Comedy
You Can't Show That ! Well They Did In The Day Sitcoms are no stranger to controversy, even today with watershed times, language etc.  However in years gone by they just put them out and worried about it later...
the cast of the 2016 remake of ae you being served line up

Old Hands, New Faces

2000's, 2000's BBC Comedy
Are You Being Served, 2016 To celebrate 60 years since Hancock's Half Hour first hit TV screens, the BBC launched a season of remakes and updates of classic sitcoms.  One of which was Are You Being Served?...

Are You Being Served ? – The Movie

1970's, Film Spin Offs
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As was the trend during the 1970's Are You Being Served was given the big screen treatment in 1977.  The film starred all the original cast from the TV version as they take a holiday on the Costa Plonka while t...
Michael Crwford is to reprise his role as frank spencer alongside bradlet wiggins for sport relief 2016

Details Finally Released

Latest News
BBC Landmark Comedy Season - Summer 2016 We told you last year how to celebrate 60 years since Hancock's Half Hour launched on TV the BBC were pulling out all the stops with cdetails to follow.  Since then we'...