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  The Guardian

  Eric Chappell obituary

  Writer of Rising Damp, The Bounder, Duty Free and other successful television sitcoms

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  The Telegraph

  Eric Chappell, creator of the classic sitcom Rising Damp and a host of other top-rated ITV comedies – obituary

  Eric Chappell, the dramatist and screenwriter who has died aged 88, contributed to something of a golden age of ITV situation comedy in the 1970s and 1980s, enjoying his most enduring success with Rising Damp, starring Leonard Rossiter as the stingy, seedy, sneering, prying, cardigan-clad landlord Rigsby – along with a string of other hits, among them Only When I Laugh, Duty Free and Home to Roost.

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  The Independent

  Love Actually: The tearjerking lesbian love scene deleted from classic Christmas romcom

  Richard Curtis regrettably ended up axing the scene but many fans will wish he hadn’t

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  Prima

  Love Actually originally had a lesbian storyline in the movie

  Love Actually has been criticised for its lack of an LGBTQ+ storyline, but there was originally one that was cut from the movie.

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  Red

  Love Actually's 'lost' storyline could have solved a big criticism of the film

  Love Actually has been criticised for its lack of an LGBTQ+ storyline, but there was originally one that was cut from the movie.

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  BANG Showbiz

  Rising Damp writer says show seems like it's 'from another world'

  'Rising Damp' creator Eric Chappell says it's odd looking back on the 1970s sitcom as it "appears to have been written by someone else, from another world".

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