Author: Simon Dunn
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What’s The Opposite Of An Arrow?
Fill a sick bag. Shoot an arrow at it. Post it all on Twitter. Orrrrrr … just work out the opposite of it all instead. That’s much more fun. Do not share. And do not enjoy.
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Clipping Image
I thought we’d all enjoy a little stroll through the newspaper coverage of the early years of Spitting Image, before all the famous people claimed to be cockahoop about their puppets, and Alan Partridge wanted one of his own, but never got it. Here’s some early news of the new production gearing up at Central,…
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Breakfast Time
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the first episode of Breakfast Time. And the wonderful Andy Pearman has uploaded the entire thing for us. How nice. It launched a couple of weeks earlier than TV-am over on ITV, and caught its rivals unawares by being a little more cosy that expected. Here’s an article from…
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America Gets The Birds
We’ve looked before at the FOX network’s remake of Birds Of A Feather. It was called Stand By Your Man, starred Rosie O’Donnell, and aired in the US in the spring of 1992. Whilst looking at clippings for Keeping Up Appearances, I came across this interesting article … It’s from the Mirror on Saturday 27th…
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Clipping Up Appearances
Hyacinth Bucket debuted on our screens in October of 1990. With it’s first episode, Keeping Up Appearances hit the ground running, winning an audience of 11.4 million. And it did that with little or no fanfare in the papers, though I’m sure it was heavily trailed on the channel. Apparently, it only takes 30 seconds…
