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Vulnerable: David Walliams as Mr Church, the chemistry teacher, in ‘Big School’

Big School left me po-faced

17 August 2013 9:00 am

How did our comedies become so sad? BBC1’s new sitcom Big School (Fridays) opened with a scene that would probably…

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