Category: Schedule Spotlight

  • Schedule Spotlight: NBC Sundays 89-90
    Schedule Spotlight: NBC Sundays 89-90

    The first part of Sunday evenings on NBC in the autumn of 1989 was dedicated to The Magical World Of Disney. Come the summer though, this hour was extended to to a two hour slot. With the Sunday Night Movie running from 9pm, that just left a single hour to fill, and that’s where the…

  • Schedule Spotlight: Fox Sundays 89-90
    Schedule Spotlight: Fox Sundays 89-90

    We’re going to skip CBS on Sundays in our schedule spotlight, because it’s just 60 Minutes, Murder She Wrote, and a movie. Fox on the other hand, is much more interesting. They began their Sunday evenings with Booker, a police procedural series co-created by Stephen J Cannell. It has a title sequence that manages to…

  • Schedule Spotlight: ABC Sundays 89-90
    Schedule Spotlight: ABC Sundays 89-90

    This is the first in a returning series of posts looking at the 1989-90 US network prime time schedules, with an emphasis on sitcoms. To being, we’ll look at ABC on Sundays. Like CBS and NBC, ABC dedicated most of its evening to a movie from 9pm till 11pm. But the evening began at 7pm…

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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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