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  Digital Spy

  BBC iPlayer adds classic '90s comedy boxsets to streaming service

  BBC iPlayer has confirmed its adding three new '90s comedy boxsets to its streaming service, including dinnerladies, Keeping Up Appearances and This Life.

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  Classic TV comedies dinnerladies and Keeping Up Appearances coming to BBC iPlayer

  Classic TV comedies 'dinnerladies', 'Keeping Up Appearances', and 'This Life' will be streamed on BBC iPlayer later this month, with the former already available on the service.

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  The Guardian

  All by themselves: the best monologues in TV history

  All by themselves: the best monologues in TV history. With Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads on its way back to our screens, here’s a list of TV’s greatest solo rambles, from Dot Cotton to the Doctor, Hancock to Harriet Tubman

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  Talking Heads, first-look review: Alan Bennett still has the sharpest pen in Britain

  If you’ve been living alone these past 85 days, you may have found yourself slowly morphing into one of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. Lonely, bored, embittered, longing for some kind of physical or spiritual connection, even if only with the vicar. A penchant for soft furnishings and chrysanthemums. A Sunday afternoon stretched out for months, with nothing but your thoughts and your net curtains. You may have even developed a Yorkshire lilt. Who knew, when Bennett wrote the first tranche of them

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  Good Housekeeping UK

  BBC remake of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads: Everything you need to know

  From the cast to an air date.

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  The Guardian

  Comedy, tragedy, elegy: why Alan Bennett's home truths are perfect for our times

  Comedy, tragedy, elegy: why Alan Bennett's home truths are perfect for our timesAs new actors revive the Talking Heads TV monologues, the poignant tales they tell will resonate more than ever with viewers in lockdown

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  Prima

  BBC announces remakes of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

  Featuring the likes of Jodie Comer, Sarah Lancashire and Imelda Staunton.

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  Patricia Routledge and Joanna Lumley receive honorary doctorates

  The two comedy stars were honoured by the University of Chester.

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  Keeping Up Appearances actor Clive Swift dies aged 82

  The actor died peacefully at home.

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  Keeping Up Appearances star Clive Swift has died aged 82

  Actor Clive Swift, who was best known for his role as long-suffering Richard Bucket in hit sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 82. The beloved actor's agent confirmed that he died "peacefully at home" on Friday morning surrounded by his family. Clive is most famous for starring in the hugely popular BBC show Keeping Up Appearances opposite comedy legend Patricia Routledge who played his on-screen wife.The hilarious duo played their parts on all 40 of the show's episodes for five years.

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