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To commemorate the return to our screens of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in Shooting Stars (however shortlived) this Christmas, here’s a clip from the show, with George Dawes (a pre-Little Britain Matt Lucas) performing a Queen/Kajagoogoo medley.

httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YOvMZN5G9uY

Bringing back Shooting Stars is one of the best things the BBC could do on a long term basis, and it certainly is raising the eyebrows and setting the Sky+ boxes of a lot of people of a certain age at the moment.

Personally speaking, Reeves and Mortimer deserve much better treatment from the BBC than they’ve been receiving in recent years.  They deserve to be hitting BBC One prime time with a top quality sketch/variety show, with jokes and sketches supplied by THE BEST gag writers out there.

There really isn’t any excuse for them having to hew out a television career on experimental sketch shows on ITV (where anything with a scripted laugh is considered experimental) and one offs of Shooting Stars - they are Britain’s most popular double act, and should be treated as such.

Give them the show, give them the writers and sit back and watch the audiences tune in.