'Cruel' reality TV is the new Bedlam asylum, Only Fools and Horses Star says

TV star Nicholas Lyndhurst has hit out at the current state of TV, comparing “cruel” Britain’s Got Talent to the psychiatric hospital Bedlam.

'Cruel' reality TV is the new Bedlam asylum, Only Fools and Horses Star says
Tue, 20 Aug, 2013 - 13:34

TV star Nicholas Lyndhurst has hit out at the current state of TV, comparing “cruel” Britain’s Got Talent to the psychiatric hospital Bedlam.

The former Only Fools And Horses star said that the long-running BBC1 sitcom, starring Lyndhurst and Sir David Jason as brothers Rodney and Derek Trotter, would not get made today.

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