Blackadder essentially to play himself. Political commentator Vincent Hanna played a character billed as "his own great-great-great grandfather" in the episode "Dish and Dishonesty" of "Blackadder the Third". Hanna was asked to take part because the scene was of a by-election in which Baldrick was a candidate and, in the style of modern television, Hanna gave a long-running "live" commentary of events at the count (and interviewed candidates and election agents) to a crowd through the town hall window. Howard Goodall's theme tune has the same melody throughout all the series, but is played in roughly the style of the period
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!,