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DR WHO does sitcom!
A BIT LIKE SCRUPLES. In fact, a lot like Scruples. But with MATTHEW KELLY.
HIRSUTE NON-HYSTERICS from MATTHEW KELLY
WHIMSICAL DRAMA by MIKE STOTT set in and around a fictional Lancashire town.
BARELY-BELIEVABLE QUIZ quackery hosted by a bristling MATTHEW KELLY.
GENERATION GAME-SLAUGHTERING, hysteria-mongering, surprise-springing, staircase-shimmying, Beadlebum-annointing ogre of Saturday nights.
IN THE words of KENNETH WILLIAMS: "It's MATTHEW KELLY isn't it?! Game for a laugh!"
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