Author: Simon Dunn
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What’s The Opposite Of Ghostbusters?
It all gets even more silly than normal this week, as we work out the opposite of a toaster, the opposite of a noise, and the opposite of Ghostbusters. Do not share, and do not enjoy.
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Proto Birds
Shooting The Pilot by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran is a remarkably good book by the writers and creators of The New Statesman and Birds Of A Feather (among so many others). As well as getting to read the pilot scripts for some of their best series, they also introduce each one with some great…
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Squarials
There’s a whole book about the rise and fall of British Satellite Broadcasting called Dished!, by Peter Chipindale and Suzanne Franks. It’s a fascinating tale, and I often revisit it. This time I have done so via old newspaper clippings.
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Fast Forward x 2
Fast Forward was an Australian sketch show that ran on the 7 Network for 74 episodes between 1989 and 1994. It’s worth quoting Mark Lewisohn in full from his excellent Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy: An earthy and funny sketch show, spoofing film and television and featuring, in its original version at least, some…
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Then Churchill Said To Me
It’s not unusual for an episode of a TV series to be postponed because of current events. There are numerous examples, such as Red Dwarf‘s Meltdown, or Bottom ‘S Up. But it is rare for an entire series to be shelved. Opening my Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy on a random page, I found…
