Best viewed through crossed fingers and from a great distance.

And Dune. He's still fingering the sand out of his butt crack.

The gayest sitcom in the world was The Golden Girls… and I don't just mean the episode where Blanche confused lesbian with Lebanese.

No. But we can wish it.

"Ah, yes - the perils of refinement."

Filmed in front of an audience. Some of the out takes of back and forth with the crew and paying customers are priceless.

Yep. My best friend announced he was marrying his partner Phil over dinner last week and my reaction - "I think your ring has been on enough fingers already" - was clearly not what the happy couple was expecting. The main course and dessert was a conversational dead zone complete with dust bunnies and tumble weeds…

Promos, promos. Try the entire series and maybe even the next one. Sitcoms traditionally take longer to settle than dramas.

Giving it the tinge of reality two gay actors can and two straight usually overplay dreadfully?

Actually, the show is very aware of its lowbrow conventionality, as the review points out. Everything is carefully inserted between inverted commas. Its awfulness is almost artful, except when it uses it as excuse to coast. It's also larded with superb one liners and exchanges and, oddly, it doesn't trade on its…

Mother wouldn't hear of it. But then she's into hardcore S&M porn.

Already have Murder by Death. I've got a major thing for Maggie Smith and Estelle Winwood.

There's an episode where Julie Newmar is shown in yoga peddling poses wearing a skintight leotard on her apartment balcony which used to make my father's tongue fall right out of his mouth and curl around his ankles while he sobbed.

Thank you. Buying the DVD online now.

The series are shown in rotation here in the UK on C5 and still register big ratings. Pleasurable plots, crack timing, often brilliant acting and always a satisfying 'Gotcha!" which never cheats, thanks to the script's reverse engineering of the actual murders. Perfect post Sunday lunch viewing, which I mean as the…

Too short I'm afraid.

Penny. Penny. Penny. And when dressed as the Flash, PennyPennyPennyPennyPennyPennyPennyPenny.

Blondie might disagree about the nice guy tag. Actually, scratch might and subsitute defintiely.

God, just reading that made me choke up.

Well, I always knew Abigail wasn't dead. How friends sneered at my childish belief.