Category: British
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Red Dwarfed
Here’s an interesting little curio. It’s a press release, that made it into many publications, including local newspapers all over the country, announcing the upcoming BBC schedule line up … … for 1987 If you know your Red Dwarf lore, you’ll be aware that the first series was delayed due to an electrician’s strike, and…
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Nineteen 90s Shows
I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…
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Whatever Next, Noel Edmonds?
Thanks to the excellent Why Don’t YouTube, over on Bluesky, I was made aware of another short-lived Noel Edmonds curio. Coming so soon off of the back of The Late Late Breakfast Show tragedy, Whatever Next? was perhaps a surprising inclusion in the schedules. So it’s worth having a look at how the show was…
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You Ain’t Clipped These, Right?
I mean, it’s impossible to write about The Fast Show without quoting it. So let’s get them out of the way. Brilliant. I like this, when comedy worlds collide and remind me that sometimes shows that seem from different eras actually shared a schedule. Which is nice. This one is more interesting from a TV…
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Good Tune, Isn’t It?
My current ear worm is this. First of all, is that Doon Mackichan singing? Second, this isn’t the first time the song has been used in a campaign for the weirdly sexualised chocolate bar. Here’s a much earlier one, with a weirdly sexualised Frank Muir.
