Comedy Rewind
Ever wondered what the fuss was about that film, or where to start in that sitcom that ran for 14 series? Fret no longer, as Comedy Rewind delves through the box sets to look back at the pick of the crop.
Jeeves And Wooster
Sunday 24th April 2022
PG Wodehouse's beloved characters have been brought to screen in various guises since they first debuted in book form in the early 1930s, but perhaps the definitive adaptations of his Jeeves and Wooster stories came in the early 1990s, featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in an acclaimed ITV series.
Mann's Best Friends
Sunday 10th April 2022
Fulton Mackay breaks free from Slade Prison in this mid-80s Channel 4 comedy about a boarding house and its residents.
Mrs Merton & Malcolm
Sunday 13th March 2022
The late great Caroline Aherne may ultimately have regretted Mrs Merton & Malcolm as a spin-off to her wildly successful talk show. The programme may have come out a little darker and more offbeat than the team's original intent, but that certainly didn't mean it wasn't a great piece of comedy, bleak or otherwise.
Nightingales
Sunday 27th February 2022
Just what made Channel 4 comedy Nightingales, about a trio of security guards working an office block's graveyard shift, a fondly-remembered cult hit? Dark surrealism by the bucket-load, more than twenty years before many other comedies followed suit.
Hancock's Half Hour
Sunday 13th February 2022
A tribute to the career of Tony Hancock and his legacy of work, including masterful sitcom Hancock's Half Hour.
Chef!
Sunday 30th January 2022
Long before Gordon Ramsay was insulting cooks from across the globe for the purposes of televisual entertainment, Lenny Henry played the role of the acerbic but brilliant French cuisine maestro Gareth Blackstock in this early 90s BBC sitcom.
An Actor's Life For Me
Sunday 16th January 2022
From the co-writer of The Vicar Of Dibley, showbusiness comedy An Actor's Life For Me rings the bells as a funny, accessible comedy about the industry itself.
One Foot In The Grave
Sunday 5th December 2021
You'd better believe it: as all 42 full episodes of One Foot In The Grave make their way to BBC iPlayer, we look at what made this dark, delicious sitcom classic.
The New Statesman
Sunday 28th November 2021
1987. Margaret Thatcher had just won her third General Election and two writers by the names of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran were about to team up with the pan-global phenomenon that was Rik Mayall, in order to create one of the most outrageous satires Britain had ever seen...
Last Of The Summer Wine
Sunday 7th November 2021
Tim Dawson looks back fondly on the world's longest-running sitcom.