A Christmas Gift To You All: 1 Hour and 20 Minutes of Santavision

Yeah. This was a thing. One of the most demented channels ever to appear on the Sky EPG. Every night throughout the festive season, a luckless drama graduate (presumably) desperate to get a gig on TV (almost certainly) would don a Santa costume and try to fill airtime for...

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Which Premier League Team Is The Most Followed On Twitter? The Answer Won't Surprise You (But Other Bits Of This List Containing Every Team In Britain And Ireland Might.) (A Bit.)

Twitter, eh? It’s a funny old game, what with so many people taking it way too seriously, to an extent that bursts of pure unfettered vitriol and occasional violence can ensue. While it may have been founded with purely Corinthian ideals at the core, it ultimately became...

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The Top 200 Sitcom Characters of All-Time: 196

Yeah, we know. 196 Jimmy The Jew (Walking And Talking) So, you’re Kathy Burke (for the purposes of this intro, stick with it). You’ve written a semi-autobiographal sitcom set in late 70s London, and you’ve written in the character of a local drug dealer who regularly gets up...

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What Has John Cleese Ever Done For Us?

Poor John Cleese.  It often feels like, come the year 2067, viewers will switch on their televisions (a 742-inch 64K-HD unit thinner than paper, costing just £29 from Space Asda) and be be greeted by the sight of John Cleese's ghost hawking VIPoo or saying This PlayStation...

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