Author: Simon Dunn
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The Lenny Henry Show
The Lenny Henry Show enjoyed a very rare repeat last night on BBC Four, and it’s still up on iPlayer. It’s remarkable that this series isn’t more widely available, or available at all. The title has been used in a number of different ways through the years, on TV as the sketch show, and then…
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Frame The Family – A Mostly Forgotten But Rather Important Show?
Sometimes, when browsing through old copies of newspapers, you see something that makes your brow knit. This happened to me the other day when I saw this. What on Earth is that? Frame The Family? Sounds a lot like a gameshow that’s fallen off the radar. Maybe it’s something like You Bet!, but with sort…
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Explained: The Five Year Gap Between Series Of Lovejoy
I’m reading the first Lovejoy novel at the moment, for larks, and it’s not about the mischevious rogue we see on TV, but instead about a character with the same name who’s a violent, misogynistic grade-one arsehole. Who likes antiques. I’ve no idea why the book reviewer in the Belfast Telegraph calls him loveable, in…
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The Secret Clips Of Adrian Mole
I was aware that Adrian Mole began life in a slightly different guise on the radio, and that there was even a computer game about him, but I wasn’t aware that there was a stage play leading up to the first TV series. Here’s a review from The Stage of the Leicester production, on the…
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Filthy Rich And Catclips
Or When Rik Mayall Nearly Quit To Be A Teacher I really like Filthy, Rich And Catflap. As I say in Proctology: A Bottom Examination, it didn’t help that at times the show was being pushed as the natural successor to The Young Ones. Ben Elton, talking on The South Bank Show recalled the show…
