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Chillichap’s Review — Pride and Prejudice 1995 BBC TV Series Starring Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle & Alison Steadman Darcy and Elizabeth My heartiest greetings to you all! I’ve been itching to write a review of this BBC adaptation of the classic story Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I can remember watching the series on TV in the nineties and being utterly hooked. What made this event remarkable was that I was in my early twenties at the time and was on something of a hedonistic rampage. Most of my time then was either in pubs, restaurants or on the cricket pitch. In this era of my life, any TV programmes that I watched had to be blooming good to leave a lasting impression. This did. If I were to say to you that I’ve watched this adaptation twenty times, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration (my suspicion is that it’s at least twice that). These days, my youngest daughter is as hooked on this drama as I am, and we know many scenes by heart, word for word. When either or both of us n...

Hello! I hit my teens in the 80's and I was probably a typical teenager with the usual amounts of angst and sarcasm. I can actually remember watching the first-ever episode of Blackadder and not having a clue what it was going to be about. I hoped it wasn't a historical drama as I hated history then (but love it now). I knew of Rowan Atkinson thanks to the excellent Not the Nine O'clock News. I'd never heard of Tony Robinson. The funny thing is that when I went back to school, none of my friends had watched Blackadder. Most had not heard of it. Fortunately, I loved Blackadder and couldn't wait for the next series. Everyone seemed to see the second series and it seemed the favourite of a lot of people as the Edmund Blackadder in that series was smart and cunning, as opposed to the first series where he was a bit of a drip and just stupid. I hope you enjoy my quick A to Z review of Blackadder A -  Atkinson, Rowan The comedy genius who played Edmund Blackadder-old rubb...

Hello! When I was growing up in the 1970s, we just had three TV channels-BBC1. BBC2 and ITV. In my opinion, comedy was at its zenith with the likes of Morecambe and Wise, Porridge, Steptoe and Son, Benny Hill, and The Two Ronnies.... I could go on (and will probably review all of these separately). For a young lad growing up, life didn't seem to be that serious. My sense of humour developed on the back of these comedy greats. Perhaps my favourite sitcom at this time was Fawlty Towers. I loved John Cleese in the role of the ever-frustrated hotel manager, Basil Fawlty. He was skittish with an unbounding chaotic nervous energy. I'm now going to pay a short homage to this classic TV comedy program in a short A-Z, but will later come back and drill down on each of the characters in this show. I hope you enjoy it. The A to Z of Fawlty Towers Welcome to my A to Z guide to the iconic British sitcom, “Fawlty Towers.”  A -  Audience Laughter The audience's laughter was genuine in res...