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I've used the phrase "dozy twonk" a few times in my life.

We've been watching on Drama channel who are now into the second run of it, but we've also bought the DVD boxset.

Drama channel are showing Brush Strokes which is a reasonably gentle comedy considering that the main character is a womaniser.

It must be so hard for the poor dears to only earn 400k a year for acting in what is one of the most depressing programmes on TV.

It seems they're spending not far off 100m on a new set: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46521700

It probably depends on who you speak to as in my experience to say you're an atheist is only shocking to some religious people. Most people I know are either atheist or agnostic, but of course that's not necessarily a representative sample. Maybe British people you spoke to were shocked because...

Cobblers is an old exclamation in England that pre-dates SW as far as I know.

If it costs that much for one day filming EastEnders then the annual budget must be in the tens of millions just for a soap.

Would they be delivered in a bucket?!

I don't see diversity in an individual TV show as being important, especially if it wouldn't ring true for the area and generations of the people it's based on. What's more important is whether it's an enjoyable show.

As a heathen non-believer I don't know how to take the word "even"

Presumably that sketch was satire? Arguably what can be shown now is anything that denigrates men or white people though.

I'm quite slim and was really thin as a kid. When having a hayfever injection in my early teens the doctor joked that if he pushed the needle in too far it'd come out the other side of my arm!

A psychiatrist quoted by Cleese puts it well: people who can't control their emotions try to control the behaviour of others.

I read somewhere that thousands of Aussies are stuck abroad so maybe they are trying to get home.