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While Marion & Geoff had pathos and poetry, The Keith Barret Show jumped the shark with its very existenceIf TV programmes can jump the shark then so too can characters. And if producers aren’t careful then beloved creations will be leapfrogging a great white quicker than you can say “David Brent’s got an album out”.Keith Barret’s first TV appearance was in the 2000 BBC mockumentary Marion & Geoff. Series one consisted of 10 nine-minute episodes in which Bar