Chop's Top Fives

My favourite sitcoms of all time. 1. Blackadder (1983-1987) Blackadder rode the crest of the Eighties alternative comedy wave. It took the ...

I kind of abandoned the sitcom top fives sometime last year and figured it was time I finished them off. This week it's my top five Amer...

OK. Something a little different this week. I hope this might act as a useful reminder to myself that a) I am stupid, b) Beer only serves to...

I can remember the first time I ever saw the Muppets. A boring evening at one of my Uncles was transformed by an explosion of colour and a s...

Continuing the comics theme. Alan Moore is a genius and I was lucky enough to be reading comics at a time when he was at his peak. He change...

I'm getting needlessly excited about the release of the Watchmen movie. Most of the superhero films I saw as a kid were major disappoin...

Roger Hargreaves stumbled across the perfect formula for children's bed time reading. They're quick to read, easy to follow and colo...

Something a bit different this week to celebrate the completion of a musical challenge I began back in August 2008. I've now listened to...

Car chases can be a bit like drum solo's. They're easy enough to do but not so easy to get right and too often you're left feeli...

Completing my round up of all that was fab in 2008 here's my favourite songs of the year. Always a bit tricky to pin down as the songs t...