Aunty’s Sitcom Season
My sofa partner and I settled down in our leisure wear to indulge in a nostalgic wallow through the old sitcoms that the BBC has been promoting in its recently. There are lots of remakes, prequels and ...
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From small screen to big screen
With the recent release of the much hyped Dad’s Army film I was interested to find out how many other television comedies have made it onto the big screen. The critics have not been too enthusiastic a ...
The first television sitcoms
Today there are very few programmes made for television that I would class as a ‘situation comedy’, but in the early days of domestic broadcasting they were a staple of family viewing. We were one of ...