If Tony Blair needed confirmation that things can only get worse, the imminent defection of Alan B'Stard to New Labour will surely suffice. When Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran created the ...

ALAN B'stard is a character synonymous with the bleak years of the Thatcher era, so it's only fitting that Rik Mayall has brought him back now - as New Labour appears to achieving the same ignominy.

If you're at a loose end this evening, you could do worse than watch the last programme in ITV's Comedy Classics series, which takes a look at Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's 1980s sitcom The New ...

Following both B'Stard and Mayall's deaths in 2014, The B'Stard Legacy will tell the tale of Sir Alan's long-lost son Arron Conway, who's the operations manager of a medium-sized IT company.

A spin-off from political sitcom The New Statesman is being developed by the show’s creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.. The B’Stard Legacy is being developed by the pair’s production company ...

Home / Top Stories / The New Statesman Spin-Off in Development. The New Statesman Spin-Off in Development. March 29, 2017 Kristin Brzoznowski . ... the long-lost son of politician Alan B’Stard ...

The original starred the late Rik Mayall as pompous politician Alan B’Stard, and ran on ITV from 1987-1992. 'The New Statesman' Creators Eyeing Update, 'The B'Stard Legacy' ...

Step forward scruple-free Alan B’Stard MP – the one-man weapon of mass derision. The suave but infamously corrupt political big-hitter from Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s outrageous 1980s ...

Strutting in front of City Hall, the sharp-suited politician oozed oily insincerity as he grinned for photographers, chatted to shoppers and shook… ...

The New Statesman (1987) TV sitcom; ITV1; 1987 - 1994; 28 episodes (4 series) Sitcom parody of 1980s Conservatism. Tory MP Alan B'Stard holds the largest majority in the House: his interests are money ...

If you're at a loose end this evening, you could do worse than watch the last programme in ITV's Comedy Classics series, which takes a look at Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's 1980s sitcom The New ...