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Epic Steadicam Shot … In Grange Hill

I want to draw your attention to this Steadicam shot … It’s nearly a minute long. That’s like half a Goodfellas. And it’s from Grange Hill in 1982. Who said TV is more cinematic these days?

July 30, 2020
It’s The Simpsons All The Way Down

This is hardly the most original thought, nor the most timely, but it’s been festering in my head for years now, and more so since I started a slow and steady re-watch from the start of The Simpsons. It bothers me that The Simpsons are rushing home to watch The Simpsons. Or at least a…

July 23, 2020
Today’s Mood

One of those days.

May 30, 2020
The F Bomb In Grange Hill

Watch this. Is there an F Bomb muttered in all the chaos?

May 25, 2020
The Shocking Secret Hidden In Grange Hill

I’m currently rewatching the very first series of Grange Hill. It’s rather charming, and an easy watch. But I discovered a shocking secret hiding in plain sight*. The blazer badge always puzzled me. Intellectually I know it is a G, an H, and an S, but it’s very hard not to see it as a…

May 24, 2020

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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

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…