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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 14, 2018 -  No Comment

From the Vault: Sherlock’s Mrs. Hudson was the original Gloria Stivic in ‘Till Death Us Do Part’

Rita, the original British version of All In The Family’s Gloria Stivic, represented a new generation.

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Posted November 27, 2018 -  1 Comment

R.I.P. — John Bluthal, aka Dibley Town Council’s Frank Pickle, dies at 89

Known for portraying “The Most Boring Man in Britain,” his six-decade career was actually quite varied.

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Posted November 20, 2018 -  No Comment

‘The Fallen Madonna with the Big B**bies’ painting from ‘Allo, Allo’ is headed to auction

‘The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies’ was a running prop-joke in the ’80s British sitcom.

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Posted November 18, 2018 -  1 Comment

Q&A: Ashley Jensen Talks ‘Agatha Raisin’ Series 2

“Apart from the fact that it looks absolutely stunning, it’s bolder, braver and funnier.”

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Posted November 9, 2018 -  No Comment

From the Vault: Martin Freeman in ‘Hardware’

Before ‘The Hobbit,’ Freeman played Mike, the grumpy DIY fanatic who works at Hamway’s.

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Posted November 8, 2018 -  No Comment

‘Miranda’ mum Patricia Hodge to star in ‘Mrs Hudson’s Radio Show’ for Radio 4

The two-part radio series will star Hodge as Sherlock Holmes’ landlady and housekeeper.

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Posted October 30, 2018 -  No Comment

Rowan Atkinson dusts off an old classic sketch from his days at Oxford

Watch the Atkinson bit that fellow undergrad and then-aspiring comedian Richard Curtis saw before deciding to pursue screenwriting instead.

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Posted October 12, 2018 -  No Comment

From the Vault: Red Nose Day 2015 — Will Geraldine finally become the Bishop of Dibley?

Revisiting the institutional, cultural phenomenon of Comic Relief is a perfect way to kick off our new weekly feature on Fridays, From the Vault.

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Posted October 11, 2018 -  No Comment

Alan Davies’ ‘Whites’ to get U.S. remake following long-awaited U.S. broadcast premiere on KERA

The UK version of ‘Whites’ is brilliant. We’ll see about the American remake.

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