'Rising Damp' creator Eric Chappell says the show "appears to have been written by someone else, from another world" when he looks back on it now. The hugely popular ITV sitcom ran for four series ...

Hollywood beauty Kate Beckinsale reveals there’s one star she’ll never mind overshadowing her. And that’s her tragic Rising Damp dad Richard. Kate was just five when he died of a heart attack aged 31.

With its focus on the 1970s career of Leonard Rossiter and its mordant metaphysics of the moist, Sophie-Sleigh Johnson's Code: Damp might just be the most original book yet to emerge from Repeater ...

There are two sitcoms from the 1970s that don't feel dated today. Fawlty Towers still zips along, its pace largely down to its then-innovative fast cutting style. Rising Damp is similarly snappy – but ...