He knows a thing or two about comedy, but Alan Davies has a serious message about his favourite subject. The QI panellist has hit out at TV soaps for "destroying sitcoms", telling the Radio Times magazine that the likes of EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale were being churned out in a "factory".
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