Category: e.phemera

  • Breaking Bad At The Office
    Breaking Bad At The Office

    Turns out there’s a shared universe between Breaking Bad and The Office. Here’s proof. I mean it’s obviously a sketch from the 63rd Primetime Emmys in 2011, but it’s nicely done, and Aaron Paul nails the looks to camera.

  • The Dukes Of Hazzard Was Based On A Movie
    The Dukes Of Hazzard Was Based On A Movie

    It feels like this is something I should have known. The Dukes Of Hazzard, the popular CBS show that ran for seven seasons, was based on the 1975 movie Moonrunners. Moonrunners was written and directed by Gy Waldron, who four years later teamed up with Jerry Rushing to adapt the idea for the small screen.…

  • Keanu’s Going Great
    Keanu’s Going Great

    It’s probably easy to think that Keanu Reeves arrived fully formed on movie screens, but he actually made his screen debut on a Canadian kid’s TV show, as a roving correspondent. Going Great was kind of news magazine show for CBC, and focused on kids doing amazing things. It ran for 39 episodes. It aired…

  • Chelsea’s WGA Monologue
    Chelsea’s WGA Monologue

    Well worth a watch.

  • Strange
    Strange

    Andrew Marshall is the writer of a number of hit sitcoms, including 2point4 Children, and more recently on the radio with Rob Grant and The Quanderhorn Xperimentations. I didn’t realise he had also written an early 2000s supernatural thriller though. As you can see Strange stars Samantha Janus, Andrew Coyle, and Ian Richardson. The pilot…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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