#british-sitcom

#british-sitcom

When taxi drivers in London started shouting punchlines at him that's when Jonathan Watson knew that Two Doors Down, the BBC Scotland sitcom set in a Glasgow suburb, had gone from slow-burn to blazing. The yelling is appropriate in itself, since Watson's character, Colin, is congenitally unfiltered. Whether it's telling his neighbours they needn't worry about a spate of burglaries because nobody'll target your place

She was the first dramatic actor to play the latter on television, and won a Bafta nomination for doing so. However, Scales, who has died aged 93, knew that public memory of her would be shaped by another woman. One who made those two royals look powerless the self-declared domestic and hospitality industry empress, Sybil Fawlty, wife of Basil, owner of the worst hotel in Torquay in Fawlty Towers, in which she co-starred with John Cleese, who also co-wrote with Connie Booth.