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By now, Alan is onto his fourth wife (Arabella Lucretia B'Stard), although the show's first run saw Sarah still firmly in place. Rik Mayall's death on 9 June 2014 prompted Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran to also kill B'Stard by writing an obituary for him (with B'Stard's date of death the same as Mayall's).
Episode 2006: The Blair B'Stard Project – Alan B'Stard has created New Labour after making billions on Black Wednesday, installing a failed singer as prime minister and secretly running the country from his bunker at number 9 Downing Street. The show sees Alan attempting to settle a divorce from his wife while playing Al-Qaeda and the ...
In 1987, Mayall played fictional Conservative MP Alan Beresford B'Stard in the sitcom The New Statesman (Yorkshire Television) written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The character was a satirical portrait of Tory Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom. The programme ran for four series—incorporating two BBC specials—between ...
Alan B'Stard MP – Haltemprice, The New Statesman (later chairman of the Conservative Party, MEP for Obersaxony, Leader of the New Patriotic Party and Lord Protector) Sir William Bunter MP – Greyfriars Central, Viz; Claire Carlsen MP (Isla Blair in the TV adaptation) – House of Cards Trilogy
Haltemprice was the constituency of the fictional ultra-right Tory MP, Alan B'Stard, in The New Statesman, a TV series which began after the actual constituency was abolished in 1983. In the first episode of the show, B'Stard wins the election in a landslide, after cutting the brake lines on his Labour and SDP opponents' cars, nearly killing them.
The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London. [2] Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a founding director.
Courtney Sebesta, a homegrown journalist at the Austin American-Statesman, will lead the publication as its new executive editor. Courtney Sebesta, a homegrown journalist at the Austin American ...
In 1991, Saxon played the role of Victor Crosby, a Thatcherite Tory Member of Parliament, in A Labour of Love, an episode of the highly-successful political satire television series The New Statesman, alongside Rik Mayall as Alan B'Stard.