The Young Ones

Barry Gibb, the last surviving Bee Gees‘ member, will be a producer and ”very involved in the narrative film.”

You can now call in from the TARDIS, ‘The Young Ones’ house, the ‘Top of the Pops’ set, ‘Fawlty Towers,’ ‘AbFab,’ ‘Blackadder,’ ‘Eastenders,’ and more.

Sad news from the world of comedy. The BBC is reporting that Rik Mayall has died at age 56. He’s probably best-known in America for playing Rick, the pompous, would-be anarchist and “people’s poet” on The Young Ones, the “punk” sitcom that aired in The US on MTV during the network’s early years…