Category: Vic & Bob
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Comic Asides: The Honeymoon’s Over
About eight months before The Fast Show hit the screens of BBC Two, a sitcom pilot written by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson aired as part of Comic Asides. This was in the same run of pilots that introduced us to The High Life. Higson and Whitehouse’s pilot was called The Honeymoon’s Over, and it…
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I Am The Spider
Here’s the first episode of Vic and Bob (and Alice too)’s Saturday evening gameshow Families At War. Produced by Channel X, the show aired on BBC One for nine episodes in 1998 and 1999.
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Comedy Connections – Shooting Stars
Dear BBC, Why oh why oh why can’t you release a complete collection of Shooting Stars on DVD? Yours,Me Clearance and rights issues I expect. So, instead, here’s most, but not all, of the Comedy Connections episode about the show.
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Shooting Stars: The Inside Story
In 2008, BBC Two took an inside look at Shooting Stars, in this excellent spoof documentary about the show. It marked the 15th anniversary, and was on the same night as a one-off Christmas special. Within less than a year, the show would return to the screen for a further three series.
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Steve Coogan – The Inside Story
In Christmas of 2009, BBC Two aired a mockumentary charting the life and career of Steve Coogan. With classic archive moments and some rarely seen early appearances, this one-hour special includes interviews with well-known faces who have collaborated with Steve, and others who are simply fans of Alan Partridge, Paul and Pauline Calf, Tony Ferrino…
