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! Dish! Dish! is a Canadian English language talk show. Dish! premiered on February 9, 2009 at 10:30 p.m. EST on the Canadian specialty channel, OUTtv. Dish! is described as a multi-platform talk series featured in print, on the Internet and television. Dish! is a three-part talk series where prominent members of the LGBT community are interviewed by one of their peers. The first episode features actor and comedian Scott Thompson being interviewed by fellow comedian Elvira Kurt. The episode premiered on OUTtv, Xtra.ca and a portion of the transcript interview was featured in the Pink Triangle Press owned magazines Xtra!,