Tag: Grange Hill

  • Epic Steadicam Shot … In Grange Hill
    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?

  • Grange Hill Has A Whole Missing Year
    Grange Hill Has A Whole Missing Year

    As regular readers will know, I’m slowly watching Grange Hill from the beginning. There’s something about it that makes it easy and enjoyable to watch, when I thought it might be slow-paced and dated. But I’ve realised that there’s a whole year missing in the narrative. As you would expect, we start the series with…

  • Craps And Dickheads In Grange Hill
    Craps And Dickheads In Grange Hill

    Have a quick watch of this. The quality isn’t great, but keep an eye on his mouth. He definitely says ‘crap’. He’s been muted though. I wonder if they muted it before broadcast, or after, or for the DVD. I suspect before it was shown. Now watch this scene carefully too. There’s definitely some more…

  • The S Bomb In Grange Hill
    The S Bomb In Grange Hill

    He definitely says ‘shit’ here, I’m convinced.

  • That Grange Hill Sausage
    That Grange Hill Sausage

    Am I the last person to know that the Grange Hill theme was also used for the first few series of Give Us A Clue? It’s Chicken Man by Alan Hawkshaw. Anyway, here’s a really nice behind the scenes documentary about series 11, which aired on New Year’s Day in 1988. Yes, it’s that Anthony…

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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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