Tag: The Golden Girls

  • Miami Nice
    Miami Nice

    Here’s a lovely little featurette about the first season of The Golden Girls. It’s got some great shots of the set, some wonderful interviews, a few fact bombs, and a shot of a shooting script. The decision to swap the roles of Betty White and Rue McClanahan was taken rather late in the show’s development,…

  • The Dozen Golden Girls Remakes
    The Dozen Golden Girls Remakes

    Brighton Belles, the British remake of The Golden Girls for ITV, is infamous for being so ill-received by viewers that it was yanked off the air after only a handful of episodes. We might have a closer look at it soon, and maybe do a side-by-side comparison of the first episode, like we did with…

  • The Golden Girls Extended Universe
    The Golden Girls Extended Universe

    It was nice to see that Disney+ has added the complete run of The Golden Girls, which I shall certainly be watching slowly. The show was created by Susan Harris and ran for 180 episodes over seven seasons. It also spawned a number of spin-off shows. After Bea Arthur decided not to sign on for…

  • Clooney Sitcoms
    Clooney Sitcoms

    Before his ascent into stardom, and literal use of the stratosphere and satellites, George Clooney appeared in a number of sictoms. Weirdly, as many people know, his first role in a sitcom was in E/R. E/R was a Normal Lear joint, that aired for one season on CBS in 1984-5. A year or so later,…

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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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