RANK SITCOMMAGE from across the pond. Two single blokes share a flat, two single women live next door. Blokes get a vacuous blonde cleaner in. Much hilarity fails to ensue. Included here only as a reminder that FRIENDS nicked its basic scenario from here (and, incidentally, many of its jokes, too). TERI COPLEY, the dumb blonde, launched her career off this. UK syndication suffered badly by being scheduled just after repeats of PORRIDGE.
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Sunday, 15.15, BBC1A full house for your PoV bingo card last week with this series’ first suggestion of launching a BBC sport channel, yet again failing to explain why they wouldn’t then launch a BBC soap channel, comedy channel and everything else, and then just have a blank screen on BBC1 for most of the day. Now we’ve covered the bases, not sure where this run has left to go.
“Why is it that the worst American sitcoms seem to last the longest?” – “The Daily Mirror” on this show, clearly unaware that US audiences took it to its hearts about as enthusiastically as UK ones.