British Classic Comedy Talk To Adrienne Conway

Interviews
It was a bolt out of the blue, when we ran a post about a 1980’s sitcom “Streets Apart” an email popped up from the writer telling us it was nice to see that people still remembered it, as it was a long time ag...

A History Of Christmas Specials

TV Comedy
Where Did The Festive Favourite Start? We recently started a run of Christmas themed posts starting with  Hancock's 45 minutes. An extended Christmas type episode, although not officially billed as a Christmas...
Kenny Everett stars in his popular ITV series The Kenny Everett Video show

Kenny Everett At Christmas

1980's BBC Comedy
Kenny Everett Christmas show - 1981 Having fallen out with Thames, Kenny Everett was offered a prime time live audience,. sketch based show by the BBC. Entitled "The Kenny Everett Television Show" five seri...
suits you sir, the tailors from the fast show

Suits You……

1990's BBC Comedy, Digital Comedy
The Fast Show - 1994 The Fast Show was brainchild of Paul Whitehouse and his writing partner and friend, Charlie Higson (who had previously enjoyed some success in the UK as a musician with the band The Higson...

It’s A Square World

1960's BBC Comedy
It's A Square World - 1960 Groundbreaking comedy from an all too often forgotten comedy genius - Michael Bentine.  It's A Square World was a sketch based series that appeared on the BBC between 1960 and 1964. ...

Blackadder: Back And Forth

2000's, 2000's BBC Comedy, Sky Comedy
Blackadder: Back And Forth - 1999 Blackaddder Back & Forth brought the famous historical send up series to an end.  Screened some ten years after what was to have been the final instalment, Blackadder Goes...

The Royal Bodyguard

2000's BBC Comedy, TV Comedy
The Royal Bodyguard, 2011 This forgotten little gem was to prove that even the best comic talent can't always hold the audience. In 2011, following the success of their BBC sitcom The Worst Week of My Life,...