The portrayals of Adrian Mole on screen, across two TV adaptations sixteen years apart, always seemed to me not entirely convincing. Or more specifically, in these series Adrian simply doesn’t look like how I imagined him. In the 1985 Thames Television adaptation of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (and then again in... read full story
"You do know it's supposed to be a spoof, a joke, right?"