[ad_1] Ten new designs Monty Python are to be commemorated in a new series of stamps. Royal Mail today announced that a set of ten designs will feature a montage of scenes and cut-out illustrations to capture the troupe’s ‘unique blend of wit, satire and absurdity’. The stamps showcase moments from the original BBC show, including…
[ad_1] New stamps to celebrate Dawn French comedy The Royal Mail is to issue 12 stamps celebrating The Vicar of Dibley. There are two second-class designs, one featuring Dawn French’s Geraldine officiating at the wedding of Emma Chambers’s dotty verger Alice and James Fleet’s Hugo; the second showing Geraldine trying to force a smile from…
[ad_1] Royal Mail celebrates ‘timeless and enduring’ sitcom Royal Mail is issuing eight special stamps to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Porridge. The stamps include memorable quotes and scenes featuring some of the most popular characters in the prison-based sitcom, which launched on the BBC on September 5, 1974. A total of 16 million…
[ad_1] Edmund’s portrait snuck up inside stately home A new portrait of Edmund Blackadder was secretly installed overnight at a stately home, to the bemusement of visitors. Some mistook Rowan Atkinson’s character for Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh and even Henry VIII when they spotted in the great hall of Audley End House, an historic Jacobean mansion in Essex. …
[ad_1] 12 designs with Del Boy and Co The Royal Mail is marking the 40th anniversary of Only Fools And Horses with a new set of stamps. A total of 12 stamps will be released on February 16 referencing the classic comedy. Eight of them depict scenes and one-liners from the sitcom, including Del Boy falling…