Author: Simon Dunn
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Down Under Your Bottom
Here’s a nice spin on a familiar thing on this blog. It’s the TV listings write up for Bottom, when it first aired on the ABC in Australia, from the Torres News on 18th November 1994. That’s rather later than I would have expected it to reach there. At first blush, it does look a…
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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…
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Junkies
David Quantick, over on Twitter, reminded me the other day of his online sitcom Junkies. It starred Sally Phillips, Peter Serafinowicz, Kevin Eldon, and Peter Baynham. It was written by David and Jane Bussman, and appeared on the internet in 2000. I remember waiting days for the Real Video file to download, when watching video,…
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What’s The Opposite Of A Beaver?
We don’t go the way you’d think this week, when we work out the opposite of a beaver. It’s much worse.
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These Four Walls Are Closing In
I’m writing this in an effort to exorcise a pernicious ear-worm. It’s burrowed so deep into my head now that I’m worried its actually eating my brain from the inside. The name of my pain is Rainbow’s Since You’ve Been Gone. I didn’t realise that this was actually a cover version. The song was originally…
