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Television Today (Then)

Each week in The Stage, there’s a section called Television Today, and it’s always a fascinating read. Especially old ones, available on The British Newspaper Archive. Let’s have a look at the edition from this week, back in 1993. We’ll start with a bit of a cheat, because this article is actually from the theatre…

April 4, 2023
Why-De-Why on Three Of A Kind

I always find sitcom spoofs on contemporaneous comedy shows a bit … icky. And often they hit the wrong note. Some of this happens here, but Ullman’s impression is rather good. The costumes are clearly from the original show, but I’m not sure about the set pieces.

October 6, 2021
Luther Relief

I lost track of when Comic Relief developed into Sport Relief, and then the two sort of congealed into a roatating annual affair. It does explain all of the sport references in this otherwise pretty good Luther sketch. Nice to see Lenny obviously, but the sporting types carry their own too, surprisingly.

January 25, 2020

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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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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…