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Peter Sellers And Spike Milligan Came This Close To Making A 70s Sitcom

Two facts crop up in everything I’ve read about the sitcom The Melting Pot. One, that the pilot was only ever broadcast once, and two, that a full series of six episodes was later filmed and never shown on TV. According to some sources, Milligan thinks this was because the scripts weren’t good enough, and…

June 8, 2022
Moore, Cook, Sellers, Atkinson & Barclays

When I think of Barclaycard adverts, I invariably think of either Alan Whicker, or Rowan Atkinson. But Barclays has a longer history of using comedians in their commercials than I realised. Here’s Dudley Moore in 1981, playing a punk rocker who has run out of cash. And here he is playing a sort of version…

May 20, 2021
The April 8th Show (Seven Days Early)

(I really should post this tomorrow, but you know.) On the 1st April 1958, Peter Sellers starred in a one off sketch show for the BBC, alongside David Lodge and Patricia Hayes. It was written by Galton & Simpson, Johnny Speight, and John Antrobus. The show was called The April 8th Show (Seven Days Early).

April 7, 2019

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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…