Bibliogryphon

I didn't see it myself but heard it wasn't up to much. The reason it scored such a high rating was partly nostalgia and the fact it was on Boxing Day, a time when most people are sat vegetating in front of the tv It was an easy watching piece of TV whimsy but the thing that everyone seemed to think was how much everyone missed Ronnie Barker. The new series will need to establish something more than just characters coming on and saying all their recognisable lines otherwise it will end up like the later series' of Allo, Allo.

For those who miss the excitement of predicting which cast member of Last of the Summer Wine will not make it to the end of the series the BBC allows more elderly Northern folks onto our screens with a full series of Still Open All Hours

Jeremy Beadle was one of the people that inspired me to start deathlisting. His death came as such a surprise we started talking about 'who would of predicted that' and our workplace competition came into being it was several years later that I discovered this site. JB was very annoying on TV and introduced that sort of game show/public interaction telly that has now come more popular but he had serious opinions and made things happen.

Well this is the RICOH arena If you are looking for inaccurate descriptions how about a Coventry City home game........ in Northampton.

If so obvious, why didn't you have any of the misses on any of your lists? Picking just 50 people and knowing which one will and will not is a delicate skill. I have a spreadsheet with over 1400 names on it all of whom have some (even if very small) reason for inclusion. If Seeger was so obvious why was he not in the top 40 of peoples DDP teams. When there was discussion over who to drop at the end of last year a number of people said drop Seeger, myself amongst them. The committee have to take decisions, for everyone they include they leave someone out sometimes they make back the wrong hearse but it is their decision. I didn't see many people on 02nd January saying "This is a rubbish list cos Pete Seeger isn't on it" In my work's game, with 42 players, of people born before 1920 Pete Seeger had the second lowest number of picks behind Sheila Mercier.

But rainbow flags draped around their shoulders is OK?

Picture of John Lithgow at the Sundance festival on BBC website. Doesn't look too well - long term.

No but Ringo was photographed with Yoko Ono, who may not be one of the worlds oldest people but she looks like she is.

Will the funeral notice request no flowers?

They just need a couple of pints of Guiness and everything will be OK. Er.... eh? Ernest Saunders...

They just need a couple of pints of Guiness and everything will be OK.

Jocelyn Hay - Campaigner who protested against proposals to turn R4 into an all news network dies

Well that's not true now obviously. Did anyone else catch this on BBC4 earlier? It still holds up quite well. So what is the oldest sitcom where all the main cast are still with us? Red Dwarf maybe? It might be stretching the definition of sitcom, but The Goodies began in 1970 and all 3 principals are not only still with us but all are still working. Definitely in the sitcom bracket is Love Thy Neighbour, which began in 1972; all four leads are still with us (Jack Smethurst, Kate Williams, Rudolph Walker and Nina Baden Semper) though the support cast (Tommy Godfrey, Keith Marsh & Paul Luty) have departed. Not sure I can compete with Love Thy Neighbour but To The Manor Born has its three main leads (Penelope Keith, Angela Thorne & Peter Bowles) and a fair number of bit parts still present as well. Thought I better get this in before Gerald Sim died.

Bob finally shows up at the funeral of the last of his siblings. False alarm But he must be feeling distinctly mortal now.

Know the feeling. For a start, Legolas wasn't in the book. That'll be because Tolkien hadn't thought him up yet. But his presence makes perfect sense. Whilst I could just about cope with the presence of Legolas as a marketing tool and a link to the LOTR films, the presence of Tauriel and her imagined interspecies romance with Kili is unforgivable.

Went to see The Desolation of Smaug at the weekend. I have now decided to re-read The Hobbit to remind myself what didn't happen in the book.

He needs to take over now. I'm getting so bored of the annoying cow who has only lasted this long by being a faceless opinionless diplomat, I want a guy who is willing to have a moan about things....... like bloody carbuncles...... This is missing the point. Charles has the freedom to express his opinions because he is not the monarch when he inherits he will be expected to be constrained by his constitutional role. These were the shutters referred to previously!

Emma Willis is much better on The Voice than HW but who thought that replacing Rastamouse with 20% (w/w) of JLS would be a good idea is sorely mistaken.

Is George Alagiah suffering from anything? I saw 6 O'Clock news on BBC last night and thought he looked terrible. I can find nothing on the web to suggest he is but if not why does he look so bad?

Maybe he would prefer my approach in not picking him because until all this discussion started I had absolutely no idea who he was.

You should highlight the educational benefit of the Deathlist in ensuring that the youth of today know the significance of figures such as Denis Healy, Jimmy Carter and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Only not the last one....

Just counted up and got 16 uniques across two of my teams. Including some people who I thought would warrent wider picks Judith Kerr, Michael Bond, Roy Dotrice and James Watson

That bit of information is the sort of thing that might mean he would be worth a pick but with the exception of David Jason I wouldn't be putting any of these on a list in the next two years. I even thought David Jason looked better than I had seen him recently in Still Open All Hours.

David Jason and Jim Broadbent are possibilities but both Kenneth MacDonald and Roger Lloyd-Pack took me by surprise.

To be fair if anyone watches SCD he keeps making similar jokes at his own expense. I think he will make 90 - like Nicholas Parsons.