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'''''The Two Ronnies Sketchbook''''' is a collection of sketches from the BBC comedy series ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'', with newly filmed introductions by the stars, [[Ronnie Barker]] and [[Ronnie Corbett]]. It was first broadcast 34 years after the first episode of ''The Two Ronnies'' was aired and 18 years after the final episode aired.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_two_ronnies_sketchbook/|title=The Two Ronnies Sketchbook|website=BRITISH COMEDY GUIDE|access-date=11 October 2021))</ref>

The show came about following the BBC's broadcast of ''[[Ronnie Barker: A Bafta Tribute]]'' in February 2004, a show which gained a large audience (7.2 million), demonstrating interest remained in Barker's work in comedy.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/feb/09/overnights|last=Plunkett|first=John|date=9 February 2004|title=Jungle viewers reach fever pitch|website=The Guardian|access-date=11 October 2021))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/oct/04/arts.bbc1|date=4 October 2005|title=Remembering Ronnie: tributes to Ronnie Barker (Beatrice Ballard, BBC creative head of entertainment events, executive producer of The Two Ronnies Sketchbook and Ronnie Barker - a Bafta Tribute)|website=The Guardian|access-date=11 October 2021))</ref> The BAFTA lifetime achievement award was presented to Barker by Ronnie Corbett. The chemistry between the two men was shown to still exist.

Six hour-long episodes of ''The Two Ronnies Sketchbook'' aired on [[BBC One]] in March and April 2005. It saw the Two Ronnies return behind their news desk, introducing some of their favourite sketches and re-reading some of the comic news items that began and ended every episode of ''The Two Ronnies''. Much was made of the fact that the sketches chosen were shown in their entirety. Each week an episode of the [[Spike Milligan]]-scripted serial ''[[The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town]]'' was shown, and each episode featured a new performance by a popular singer.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/02_february/22/ronnies.shtml|date=22 February 2005|title=Press Office - The Two Ronnies Sketchbook: BBC ONE, Friday 18 March, 9.00pm|website=BBC|access-date=11 October 2021))</ref>

The sketches chosen were considered true classics - the short-sighted optician, 'Your nuts, m'lord', the ''[[Mastermind (television)|Mastermind]]'' spoof (Specialist subject: Answering the Question Before Last), and, the sketch voted the nation's favourite, [[Four Candles]] (this last sketch was kept until the very end of the sixth episode, pretending they had forgotten about it). The newly recorded introductions provided an opportunity for plenty of good-humoured banter between the pair. The show was met with approval from audiences - 7.9 million tuning in for the opening episode, with many of them too young to have seen ''The Two Ronnies'' when it was first broadcast.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/mar/21/overnights|last=Deans|first=Jason|date=21 March 2005|title=Two Ronnies have the last laugh|website=The Guardian|access-date=11 October 2021))</ref> Ronnie Corbett later said that Ronnie Barker was "delighted that the ''Two Ronnies Sketchbook'' had gone so well, bringing us to a new generation of audiences".<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/oct/04/arts.bbc1|date=4 October 2005|title=Remembering Ronnie: tributes to Ronnie Barker (Ronnie Corbett)|website=The Guardian|access-date=11 October 2021))</ref>

This would end up being Barker's final television work. He appeared frail and had lost a lot of weight, and it later became clear that he had been very unwell with a heart condition whilst filming the show. However, he was determined to record one final Christmas special of ''The Two Ronnies'', and so, on 5 July 2005, ''The Two Ronnies Christmas Sketchbook'' was recorded. It was broadcast on Christmas Day of the same year, two months after Barker's death (Ronnie Corbett paid tribute to him in a specially recorded introduction to the show), and saw the pair introduce their favourite sketches from their Christmas shows.<ref>((cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d2806a1722384c889e9867a3c8220139|title=PROGRAMME INDEX - 22:00: The Two Ronnies Christmas Sketchbook|website=BBC|access-date=12 October 2021))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/one-last-good-night-from-two-1094678|title=One last good night from Two Ronnies|website=Manchester Evening News|date=12 January 2013 |orig-date=7 December 2005|access-date=13 October 2021))</ref> Again, the show was a rousing success, and - with 7.93 million viewers - was the fourth most watched programme on Christmas Day.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/media/a27678/eastenders-tops-christmas-day-ratings-27678/|last=Wilkes|first=Neil|date=26 December 2005|title=EastEnders' tops Christmas Day ratings (Christmas Day overnights: EastEnders helps BBC One win the festive ratings war - In Full: Ratings Top 20)|website=Digital Spy|access-date=12 October 2021))</ref>

==Repeat broadcasts==
The full series of ''The Two Ronnies Sketchbook'' was repeated on [[Gold (UK TV channel)|GOLD]] daily in Autumn 2007 but was edited to a 30-minute time slot, therefore the show was broadcast in 12 episodes consecutively instead of six 60-minute shows. Since then the full series has not been repeated but ''The Two Ronnies Christmas Sketchbook'' has been repeated over the festive period on both [[Gold (British TV channel)|GOLD]] and [[BBC One]]. In December 2011, [[BBC One]] repeated some episodes of the series again but only in the 30 minute format. On 23 December 2011, [[BBC One]] repeated a full sixty minute episode of ''The Two Ronnies Sketchbook'' for the first time since 2005. On 2, 3 and 4 January 2013 [[BBC One]] again repeated three thirty minutes edited episodes of the show. Repeats of the show have since began broadcasting on GOLD from 1 November 2013. Repeat broadcastings of the 30 minute edited shows aired again in December 2014 on [[BBC One]] on Friday nights in the 7:30pm slot. GOLD regularly repeat the series and have recently been showing episodes cut down to 45 minutes, to allow adverts. Episode 3 was repeated on [[BBC One]] in thirty minute form on 1 April 2016, after the death of [[Ronnie Corbett]]. During December 2020, [[BBC Four]] repeated the show in the 30 minute format for the Christmas holidays.

== References ==
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==External links==
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