Author: Simon Dunn
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Robin Cock – A Not The Nine O’Clock News For The Nineties
This runs the risk of turning into a Simon London’s appreciation piece appreciation piece. It’s fair to say he was an early written champion of The Day Today. On the Saturday before the first episode was broadcast (15th January 1994), he wrote this column. The following week, on the 22nd January, he marked the show…
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Awful Alan
On the weekend before Alan Partridge’s new chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You … arrived on BBC Two screens, he gave a short interview to the Daily Mirror. This is how it appeared on Saturday 10th September, 1994. Then, the day before the show began, this snooty (but probably prescient) warning arrived in the pages…
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The Larry Sanders Background Joke
I just wanted to draw your attention to this background joke from the final episode of the first season of The Larry Sanders Show (Hey Now).
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Popadoodledandy
Perhaps one Sunday afternoon in 1993, maybe on Valentine’s Day, you were perusing the pages of The Sunday Mirror, and a picture of Nurse Duffy from Casualty caught your eye. If you let your gaze wander, you would have seen that Vic and Bob had just recorded a new pilot for Channel Four called Popadoodledandy.…
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Clip Clip, It’s Reeves And Mortimer
There are a few common themes when reading reviews for Vic and Bob shows. See if you can spot some. Here’s James Green’s thoughts in The Stage from 14th June 1990, as he discusses Vic Reeves Big Night Out. Here’s Simon London, talking about The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer, from The Daily Mirror on…
