Teresa’s TV blog: And your starter for ten... (From Kidderminster Shuttle)

Teresa’s TV blog: And your starter for ten...

1:23pm Tuesday 2nd June 2009

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THERE’S only one thing that comes close to watching telly, and that’s testing your knowledge of it.

A new book entitled The British TV Sitcom Quiz Book, compiled by Chris Cowlin with forewords from comedy giants Brian Murphy and Nicholas Parsons OBE, arrived on my desk just in time for a three hour car journey to the South West.

We had to give some of the categories on the likes of ‘modern’ comedies like Coupling and Not Going Out a miss but had plenty of fun trawling through the memory bank and tackling teasers on my faves including Open All Hours, Porridge and Phoenix Nights.

I think I got two out of ten on Mind the Language but the show was so bad I’d probably blanked most of it out completely!

As well as questions on individual shows, there are ‘guess the number of episodes’ posers and anagrams to untangle.

Writers and directors get a look in and I particularly liked the section on filming locations.

The British TV Sitcom Quiz Book is published by Apex Publishing and retails at £9.99. For more details, visit www.apexpublishing.co.uk

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