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Every so often, I ’ d get a call from the producer saying, it ’ s going out at this time.

The publicity people would be alerted, then we ’ d get a call saying no, it ’ s not, it ’ s been put back.

That happened six times, I think, altogether – seven reschedules in a year or so ...

It was extraordinary and inexplicable, and just one of these things that happen.

I mean, a lot of shows are left on people ’ s desks and they hardly get seen, and Joking Apart was certainly one of those.

Meanwhile, they were making about four series of The Brittas Empire, and you thought, " Bloody Hell!

Come on, surely ….?

" To my mind, our show was a very superior product, and it upset me that other shows, which I, personally, felt were broader and less interesting, were getting precedence.