Filthy Rich & Catflap

Filthy Rich & Catflap is a BBC sitcom produced in 1986 and broadcast early the next year. The series featured former The Young Ones stars Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as its three title characters respectively. It was written by Ben Elton with additional material credited to Mayall. One series of six half-hour episodes was produced (although the notion of a second series is played upon in the final episode, and the continuity announcer on the last installment says "...and Filty Rich and Catflap will return next year." They didn't.). Although the series gained respectable viewing figures, it did not quite capture the imagination in the way its father programme, The Young Ones, did. While some parts of the show are of their time (particularly the topical satire aimed at Margaret Thatcher and her government) the main theme of the cult of celebrity and the pursuit of it by the talentless remains topical, possibly more so now than at the time. Lise Mayer has hinted... full article at wikipedia