Rotten and pocket boroughs MacDonald Fraser's "The Flashman Papers" series, the eponymous antihero, Harry Flashman, mentions that his father, Sir Buckley Flashman, had been in Parliament, but "they did for him at Reform," implying that the elder Flashman's seat was in a rotten or pocket borough. In the episode "Dish and Dishonesty" of the BBC television comedy "Blackadder the Third", Edmund Blackadder attempts to bolster the support of the Prince Regent in Parliament by getting the incompetent Baldrick elected to the fictional rotten borough of "Dunny-on-the-Wold". This was easily accomplished with a result of 16,472 to nil, even though the constituency had only one
Dish Nation affiliate is one of that network's weakest affiliate stations. The show's median age of viewers was 43.1, the lowest among all entertainment magazine shows, according to Twentieth ("TMZ" 43.7, "Access Hollywood" 52.3, "Extra" 54.2, "The Insider" 55.2, "Entertainment Tonight" 56.6, "Inside Edition" 58). Prior to the 2012 NATPE conference, 20th Century Fox announced that "Dish Nation" would return for a 52-week, full series run to premiere September 10, 2012. After the rating success of its first 100 episodes, Twentieth Television announced on January 25, 2013 that "Dish Nation" had been picked up for an unprecedented Season Two. Viewers "are constantly