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Screaming that it "is most certainly a Carry On film, with its pungent innuendo and sheepish sexism, but its exploration of a genre — in this case, the lurid fillips of Hammer Horror — reveal genuine skill and appreciation… between its bouts of bawdy humour, it is actually scary…" But, at the end of the day, "It is still a comedy and a very funny one at that".  Andrew Collins began his media career in the mid-80s, laying out pages for the NME, eventually becoming a regular writer for the weekly music paper and then features editor. He has since worked for Select, Empire and Q, and...

7 x 30’ From the creative team behind the BAFTA award- winning Murder in Successville, King Gary is written by Tom Davis and James De Frond. It stars Davis as the lead (Gary) and the series is directed by De Frond. Our story follows childhood sweethearts Gary and Terri (Laura Checkley) and their aspirations to achieve social acceptance and moderate material success in competitive suburbia. This, accompanied by drama queen Gary’s constant strive to impress his prehistoric old school Dad, Big Gary (Simon Day) and attempt to fill his big boots, equals a massive ‘try hard’ douchebag. A st...

Decanter Property: English Pinot Noir vineyard listed for sale An English vineyard focused around Pinot Noir has come up for sale as part of a wider farmland listing, offering a potential opportunity on the burgeoning UK wine scene. Précoce – and Seyval Blanc. Around half of the vines were planted in 2008/2009, according to the listing brochure, with the other half planted more recently and set to yield a full crop in 2022.  The vines have recently come onto the market as part of a broader sale of 40.4 hectares of land (99.76 acres) at Church farm estate – carrying an ...

The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen … The Mitchell and Webb sketch with the two SS officers debating whether they might be the baddies has a very deep truth at its heart and is also very funny. The funniest book I’ve ever read … I’m not a big fan of the comedy novel but I do love Flann O’Brien (or Myles na gCopaleen). His collected newspaper pieces in ‘The Best of Myles’ has some really funny writing in it. The bits about his ‘Reading Service’, in which he offers to read people’s books for them, so they don’t have to bother, is a mast...

VINEYARD: Left to right: John Ballard, Tom Pike (Fisher German) and Simon Day A COUNTY vineyard is up for sale after the owner decided to take a step back. The Sixteen Ridges Vineyard at Shrawley has been put on the market by owner John Ballard, who has farmed 120 acres for more than 50 years. Now though, he has decided to step back from farming life, having established the Sixteen Ridges Vineyard in 2008 as one of a series of business ventures at Church Farm. Mr Ballard said: “We really had no choice but to diversify as we are not a large farm.