Author: Simon Dunn
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Chase A Rabbit Down A Hole
On this day, in 2002, the cover of Broadcasting & Cable Magazine featured this photograph: The cover seems only to be justified by two sentences in the whole magazine. Here’s the first: NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker is “very high” on a pilot starring Chevy Chase he describes as an updated My Three Sons, “only…
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Red Dwarfed
Here’s an interesting little curio. It’s a press release, that made it into many publications, including local newspapers all over the country, announcing the upcoming BBC schedule line up … … for 1987 If you know your Red Dwarf lore, you’ll be aware that the first series was delayed due to an electrician’s strike, and…
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Hey! HEY! They’re NOT The Monkees
You know when you’re browsing old copies of American television industry magazines, and you come across something that makes you stop and scratch your head with Simian-like confusion? New Monkees was a syndicated show, developed from the original by Matthew Fassberg and Victor Fresco. It lasted 13 episodes, and was jointly produced by Coca Cola…
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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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Whatever Next, Noel Edmonds?
Thanks to the excellent Why Don’t YouTube, over on Bluesky, I was made aware of another short-lived Noel Edmonds curio. Coming so soon off of the back of The Late Late Breakfast Show tragedy, Whatever Next? was perhaps a surprising inclusion in the schedules. So it’s worth having a look at how the show was…
