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Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson’s Bottom exploded onto British television in the early nineties. The anarchic sitcom was violent, rude, disgusting and so uproariously funny that it became an instant ...

05:00, Fri, Nov 14, 2025 Updated: 12:55, Fri, Nov 14, 2025 Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson’s Bottom exploded onto British television in the early nineties. The anarchic sitcom was violent, rude, ...

Strictly Come Dancing's spooktacular Halloween week saw plenty of surprises, including the first 40 of the series for Lewis Cope. But the biggest shock of Saturday night for some viewers came when ...

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I did not have high expectations for "The Ballad of Wallis Island", said Danny Leigh in the Financial Times. Developed from a 2007 short film by its co-stars, poet-comedian Tim Key and his writing ...