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MEDIA: ZEITGEIST - Channel 4's Black Books is a fine exemplar of how not to sell anything to anyone.(Channel 4 Television Co.)(Brief Article)
Some people just don't get Black Books. There's no nice way of putting this - they've just very sad individuals indeed. Now, though, they've been given yet another chance to redeem themselves. Channel 4's best sitcom ever, a winner of a Bafta in 2001, is back for a third series.
Written by Dylan Moran who also plays the lead role, Black Books features an almost-charmingly irascible book shop owner (that's the 'Books' bit) owned by a man called Bernard Black (see, it all hangs together) who hates his customers in an almost Basil Fawlty-ish way. (If Fawlty were a drunken ...
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