The Toit Stuff (about sitcoms)

 The 2024 finalists Strictly Come Dancing (Series 22) - 2024 Date - 14th September (launch show) - 14th December 2024 15 couples That time period in context - The UK General Election in July saw the Tories get voted out (after over a decade of being truly awful while in charge) and a Labour government come into power, which didn't feel as good as it should have done. ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator 2’ came out in November and went for a similar ‘Barbenheimer’ style effect by calling it ‘Glicked’ (but ‘Wicked’ well and truly took the crown). Israel continued bombing and carrying out the appalling genocide in Palestine, as well as launching attacks in Lebanon. The Paris Olympics were much discussed during our ‘brat, demure’ summer (and sadly, transphobia dominated a lot of the Olympics conversation). The pole vaulter got quite a lot of attention too. Life also felt a bit more depressing and hopeless with the truly terrible US election results (and what it says about the scary rise of the far...