Ronnie Barker News

Sir David Frost has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the International Emmys in New York.

18 ** So long and thanks for all the sheep: series finale of Aussie outback drama McLeod's Daughters airs Nov.

A SHOPKEEPER who has been likened to the popular Arkwright character from Open All Hours has claimed first place in the Rutland Times Service with a Smile Awards.

In 2007, nearly 60 per cent of prisoners given sentences of under 12 months reoffended within two years Yesterday, the Prison Governors' Association voted to abolish all prison sentences of under 12 months.

"Barry from EastEnders " to the world and his wife - is particularly looking forward to coming to Plymouth on the UK tour of Porridge , in which he fills the not inconsiderable shoes of the late Ronnie Barker, writes Lee Trewhela.

He performs all over Britain and beyond including the Irish Republic, Australia, Canada and Dubai.

My preconceptions of life inside a jail are based mostly on TV and films. A mixture of the ridiculously romanticised Ronnie Barker and co plus the hard end Prison Break and The Wire.

There was a touch of real-life Porridge in the news this week when a long-serving prisoner declared that he never wanted to leave the nick because life inside was so cushy.

It would stretch chief prison officer Mackay to breaking point... Warders are in revolt after a governor insisted they address inmates by putting Mister before surnames.

A PRISONER serving a life sentence for attempted murder has caused outrage after boasting about his luxurious life behind bars.

Ronnie Barker's portrayal of Fletcher in Porridge was one of the great performances of British sitcom.

Fletcher is back behind bars as the TV sitcom Porridge, made famous by Ronnie Barker, is reborn for the theatre Stephen Dalton In a scruffy North London rehearsal room, the ghostly voice of the late Ronnie Barker rings out.

Fletcher is back behind bars as the TV sitcom Porridge, made famous by Ronnie Barker, is reborn for the theatre Stephen Dalton In a scruffy North London rehearsal room, the ghostly voice of the late Ronnie Barker rings out.

Fletcher is back behind bars as the TV sitcom Porridge, made famous by Ronnie Barker, is reborn for the theatre Stephen Dalton In a scruffy North London rehearsal room, the ghostly voice of the late Ronnie Barker rings out.

Independent shopkeepers, like Ronnie Barker's and David Jason's characters in Open All Hours, face higher buying prices if their mutually-owned group Nisa-Today's is bought by a for-profit business Photo: BBC It may seem like a storm in a box of cut-price tea bags, but for the 980 members of Nisa-Today's, and the 5,000 independent stores under its ...

Independent shopkeepers, like Ronnie Barker's and David Jason's characters in Open All Hours, face higher buying prices if their mutually-owned group Nisa-Today's is bought by a for-profit business Photo: BBC It may seem like a storm in a box of cut-price tea bags, but for the 980 members of Nisa-Today's, and the 5,000 independent stores under its ...

ARKWRIGHT and Granville would have looked a little out of place. A sports taster event in Sheffield called Open All Hours was about as far removed from the seventies sitcom of the same name as it could get.

For fans of British humor, Open All Hours: The Complete Series on DVD is a long-awaited treasure.

JOHN Wayne, Pele and Ronnie Barker in the film guide where everybody knows your name.

The BBC sitcom Porridge is coming to the stage, but these days we're used to hard-hitting studies of life in the cells, such as Gladiator Games ) Tanika Gupta's Gladiator Games, directed by Charlotte Westenra at Sheffield Studio Theatre.