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After a successful first series, Ben
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housemate was also part of her suggestions to add a new element of interest to the series. However, despite a continuity announcer stating over the closing credits of the final episode in a 1999 repeat that the series would return the following year, only one further repeated episode was broadcast
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A fourth series was considered. Bernadette Davis voiced her desire to focus the next series on the development of
Matthew, who due to his flat-bound existence, she began to find increasingly hard to write for; the addition of a "radicalist" new
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that the series was polarizing due to some controversy over some of the politically incorrect dialogue, situations and gags, but also that the series had high viewing figures, building up an even bigger following after its cancellation.
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All three series of the show are available on DVD. The first series DVD is the only one with any special features, which include
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and expressed their dislike for TV shows which did this). The first two series were written by Andrew Davies and
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