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Actors Vicki Michelle and Jeffrey Holland, who joined the Barmy Dale podcast for the second series, are to continue to star in the sitcom. Barmy Dale was created in lockdown by Martin Skellern and Stuart Wheeldon, who both grew up watching classic sitcoms Hi De Hi and Allo Allo. It’s set in a fictional Derbyshire village and revolves around the escapades of Keith Meadows and Dan Parker, usually ending with both getting themselves into some sort of trouble!

Streaming service BBC Player is set to launch in Poland next month thanks to a partnership between BBC Studios and Canal+.

The VOD platform will launch June 1 for Canal+ streaming subscribers as well as satellite users whose set-top boxes are connected to the Internet (the latter will only have access between June 1 and Aug. 31 after which BBC Player will be available only as part of certain Canal+ packages).

BBC Player will feature around 1,000 hours of content in an array of genres including British drama, documentaries, pre-school and lifestyle including factual programs such as “David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities and Mediterranean: Life Under Siege” and “Trump Takes on the World” as well as crime drama “Unforgotten,” classic comedy “‘Allo ‘Allo!” and limited drama series “Time” starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham.

The SVOD will regularly update its content and will also receive content immediately after it premiers on linear television.

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‘Allo Allo’ is a British sitcom series, focussing on the life of Rene Artois, a French café owner in German occupied France during the second world war. Starring Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Vicki Michelle, Richard Marner, Kim Hartman. Still from ‘Allo Allo’ Rene is a reluctant participant of the local French Resistance cell that operates under […]

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After tackling Wilderpeople hunts, squabbling vampires and family tussles in Asgard, writer/director Taika Waititi returns with a bold aim of adapting Christine Leunens’ book Caging Skies. Getting satire right is a difficult enough task as it is, let alone casting your net over one of the most brutal and oppressive eras in human history. And while Waititi has all the best intentions and means well with his “anti-hate” picture, Jojo Rabbit is more good than great, and has a fair few irritating flaws that keep it grounded where it could soar.

The plot centres on 10-year old Johannes “Jojo” Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis), an enthusiastic member of the Hitler youth, with high goals to advance to the top, while his more benevolent mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson) just wants the fighting to end and her boy to be allowed to be a kid again. Soon though, Jojo’s loyalties are tested,...