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Les Dennis's Home Video Heroes

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6529409 ↗
Source-derived summary

Les Dennis's Home Video Heroes is a British television programme, which ran for two series on Challenge in 2008. The first series ran from 23 June to 1 August, and the second ran from 13 to 31 October. It featured humorous clips from home videos. The show was narrated by Les Dennis, with a special "Laugh-o-meter" segment being narrated by Stuart Hall.

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The public source identifies “Les Dennis's Home Video Heroes” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dennis's, Home and Video.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dennis's, Home and Video providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6529409. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Les Dennis's Home Video Heroes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.