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In this installment of Dated or Delightful, we return to the mid-90’s to see if a BBC sitcom about a fictional Oxfordshire village and their unexpected and enthusiatic new minister stands the test of time. Yes, let's take a look back at The Vicar of Dibley. In
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Last weekend marked fifteen years since we first met the employees of Werham Hogg Paper Merchants, the Slough branch. In its unblinking mockumentary style, The Office followed the day to day lives of the staff in a typical British workplace. It focused on the traits of social clumsiness, self-importance, frustration,
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For this installment of Dated or Delightful I went back to 1975 to re-watch a famous farcical sitcom about an ill-tempered hotelier and his overbearing wife. Throughout the twelve episode binge, my main goal was to ascertain whether Fawlty Towers was still funny and relevant four decades later. Inspired by
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Happy Father’s Day! Fatherhood is full of fun and rewarding moments, but as any dad will tell you, there’s a great deal of hard work involved as well. I have chosen a few examples of British telly fathers to demonstrate the sacrifices and worries that these brave men
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In this installment of Dated or Delightful, we travel all the way back to 1975 to see if a little sitcom about self-sufficiency in the suburbs can still be funny. Yes, over forty years ago the BBC’s The Good Life debuted in the UK and remained popular throughout the
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Comedy series Vicious will air its last episode this summer. The news the show would not be returning for a third season was announced by ITV late last year, though the cancellation blow was somewhat softened by the fact that it was given a final, extended one-off episode to wrap
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When it comes to British telly, I find myself watching a lot of current series -mostly gritty police dramas or edgy comedies- which I enormously appreciate and enjoy. But sometimes after a tension-filled binge session witnessing the heart wrenching things people endure living in the dead-end tower blocks, I need
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For those who follow British entertainment, you will have noticed a decided trend towards reviving TV shows of bygone days. And no wonder, the fondness for and popularity of such classic series remain fairly constant. For example, Dad’s Army, a UK comedy institution from the 60’s and 70’
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Well, there’s good news and bad news for fans of comedy series Vicious. The show will be returning for an extended one-off special in 2016, but this extra episode will apparently also serve as the series finale. Vicious stars acting legends Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi as