Rowan Atkinson

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15 Comedy Moments

Fifteen Iconic Comedy Moments Articles

15 Comedy Moments

Whether it's pratfalls or pathos, awkward silences or extravagant chaos, British sitcoms have given us a treasure trove of moments that we’ll be quoting and re-enacting forever. Join us for 12 sitcoms with 15 iconic-never to be forgotten moments...

Blackadder

Blackadder (1983) Reviews

Blackadder

Series set in four eras centred round Edmund Blackadder, a treacherous, selfish and devious rogue.

Blackadder Goes Forth

Blackadder Goes Forth Articles

Blackadder Goes Forth

Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.

Maigret

Maigret (1960) Reviews

Maigret

Parisian detective is a compassionate yet implacable hunter of criminals in this classic BBC series. Rupert Davies remains the quintessential Maigret on our screens, even though others have followed in his footsteps

Mr Bean

Mr. Bean (1990) Reviews

Mr Bean

They say actions speak louder than words, and that's never been truer than in the case of a certain Mr Bean, one of Britain's most popular comical television characters, the taciturn, clumsy, conniving and ever ingenious "child in a grown man's body."

Not the Nine O'Clock News

Not The Nine O'Clock News (1982) Reviews

Not the Nine O'Clock News

Sketch show that single-handedly revived political satire on British television in the 1980s. Had it not been for one M. Thatcher, it might never have come to fruition.

The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line (1995) Reviews

The Thin Blue Line

Anarchy reigns at a police station in the small English town of Gasforth - as dyed-in-the-wool conventionalist Inspector Raymond Fowler finds himself at loggerheads with modern policing methods, and in particular CID Inspector Derek Grim.