Barry Cryer: Life With Monty Python
❉ The Godfather of British comedy on being Python’s warm-up act, inventing the first gay sitcom and stalking J.B. Priestley.
Television
James Burke’s ‘Connections’: On DVD For The First Time!
❉ Join James Burke on his landmark journey of discovery, and learn how everyone and everything in this world is connected.
A Right Royal Knees Up: The road to WWE Royal Rumble 2017
❉ Let’s get ready to Rumble!
Class Action! ‘Class’ Series 1 reviewed
❉ Our end-of-term report on ‘Class’, the ‘Doctor Who’ spinoff that receives its first DVD and Blu-Ray release today.
Cult Q & A: Julie Graham
❉ We’re asking, they’re answering. This week: She’s been from Benidorm to Shetland and she plays a mean game of pool…
The British Wrestling Renaissance
❉ With British professional wrestling’s return to national network television, is the UK wrestling scene ready to go mainstream?
Anthologies of Terror
❉ With retro comedy-horror ‘Inside No.9’s recent Christmas special still fresh in our minds, we look back at its antecedents…
‘The Black Archive #9: The God Complex’ reviewed
❉ We review the latest in Obverse Books’ Black Archive series, putting individual Doctor Who stories under the microscope.
Fourth wall? What fourth wall?: ‘Filthy Rich & Catflap’ at 30
❉ A revolutionary piece of television written by and for comedy obsessives first appeared on TV thirty years ago this month.
Cult Q & A: Jason Hazeley
❉ We’re asking, they’re answering: This week, Jason Hazeley, one of the minds behind ‘Screenwipe’ and ‘Ladybird Books For Grown-Ups’.