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Rating: Rating: Picture the fate of any modern comedian who dares try a gag like this on a prime-time panel show. Les Dawson, licking his lips, looked at Sheila Ferguson of the Three Degrees and told her: ‘If I ever get you in that dressing room, it’ll be One Degree under.’ That was Les presenting Blankety Blank on BBC1 for the first time, in 1984. Sheila watched her appearance on the quiz show and wiped tears of laughter from her eyes. ‘It’s not a face you’re gonna forget,’ she...

Stacker compiled data on all comedy TV shows from 1970-1979 and ranked them according to iMDb user rating, with ties broken by votes.

Stacker compiled data on all comedy TV shows from 1970-1979 and ranked them according to iMDb user rating, with ties broken by votes.

Stacker compiled data on all comedy TV shows from 1970-1979 and ranked them according to iMDb user rating, with ties broken by votes.

Sun 23 May 2021 01.30 EDT Dapper and affable, and with sound editorial judgment, Tony Hall was known as the man with the Midas touch among his BBC news colleagues. Starting his BBC career as a trainee in the Belfast newsroom in 1973, the son of a Merseyside Anglican bank manager rose swiftly to produce Radio 4’s Today and other flagship current affairs programmes. Aged 34, he was editor of BBC One’s Nine O’Clock News. A proud northerner – he has written a book on the history of the N...

Lord Hall’s appointment as the BBC’s director-general had been another coup for a man who boasted a distinguished career in broadcasting and at the helm of major institutions. Now, just nine months after he left that coveted post at the BBC, his handling of the scandal surrounding journalist Martin Bashir’s interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1995 has seen him quit his new high-profile role as chairman of the National Gallery. A report by former master of the rolls Lord Dyson foun...

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This month marks 29 years since the beginning of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the siege of Sarajevo, during which the city was militarily encircled and subjected to daily sniping, mortaring and shelling, first by the the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and subsequently by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS). The siege lasted 1,425 days, making it the longest siege in modern history, and killed more than 11,000 people. Many of the city’s most important cultural institutions, h...