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Was That The Best British Comedy Christmas TV Ever?

So this year we have had fewer Christmas specials and more repeats. But, despite all this, we have had three absolute Christmas crackers in three subsequent days, with the sitcoms Upstart Crow, Ghosts and The Goes Wrong Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68NJcsXoAucVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Upstart Crow – Lockdown Christmas 1603 (December 21 2020) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68NJcsXoAuc) Upstart Crow[...]

Upstart Crow Returns To The BBC With A Plague Christmas Special

Upstart Crow is a belter of a classic BBC sitcom, written by Ben Elton and telling the story of Shakespeare divided by his time in London with his theatre, and at home in Stratford with his family I managed to see the TV show being recorded and earlier in the year, also got to see[...]

The First Review Of Upstart Crow, The Play – Having Its Cake, Eating It, Smearing It Down Its Puffling Pants

Upstart Crow is the theatrical sequel to the BBC TV sitcom of the same name, with the same writer Ben Elton and pretty much the same cast Directed by Sean Foley, it premiered last night in the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End A show that regularly entertained millions on TV, entertained just hundreds, even[...]