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Why Outnumbered's junior rebel is the ultimate kids' hero

It's just possible that the best cult TV hero for under-10s is a curly-haired kid whose work has never been shown pre-watershed, unless you count an ad for Kingsmill bread. A hugely unscientific survey of children of my acquaintance reveals that those who have seen the BBC comedy series Outnumbered, about a flustered but happy middle-class family, all want to be Ben, the seven-year-old middle son, played by Daniel Roche.

Michael Hann, The Guardian, 18th June 2009

How Emily Maitlis discovered her inner Hells Angel

Emily Maitlis talks about how it was something of a shock to find herself at the European headquarters of Harley-Davidson, awaiting her first motorbike lesson thanks to the BBC4 show I've Never Seen Star Wars.

Emily Maitlis, Daily Mail, 2nd May 2009

Panel of Experts: Still absolutely inspired

Five members of the 1990s sketch show Absolutely - Gordon Kennedy, Pete Baikie, Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter and John Sparkes - look back at their old selves in their second series

Ed Potton, The Times, 3rd May 2008

ITV cleared over 'racist' joke

ITV has been cleared of racism by TV watchdog Ofcom after Sir Trevor McDonald called the late controversial comic Bernard Manning a "fat, white bastard".

Chris Tryhorn, The Guardian, 10th September 2007

A Bumbling British Spy, Both Shaken and Stirred

Rowan Atkinson, the gangly, rubber-faced British comedian who is the star and raison d'ĂȘtre of Johnny English, has collected a devoted American following for his two television personas, the history-hopping scoundrel Blackadder and the hapless, spastic Mr. Bean.

A. O. Scott, The New York Times, 18th July 2003

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