Author: Simon Dunn
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A Peep Behind The Green Door
In April of 1990, viewers in Scotland got another chance to watch Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind The Green Door. Originally broadcast on BBC Two on 13th September 1982, it was a BBC Scotland production, and had a running time of 40 minutes. By the time it received this repeat though, it had been cut…
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The Diary Of Paul Jackson, Aged Thirty-Ish
Independent producer Paul Jackson gives a sneak preview of some of what we’ll see of the Melbourne Festival of comedy when it is screened on Channel 4 next month, and an insight into some of the behind-the-scenes comedy we won’t be seeing. The show they are filming for was Craig Goes Mad In Melbourne, which…
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Red Dwarf: The Reviews Are In
Here’s a couple of contemporaneous reviews for the first series of Red Dwarf, in February of 1988. The first is from the 18th, by Ann Mann in The Stage. And here’s another, this from a couple of weeks later, on the 28th, by David Bradbury in The Sunday Mirror.
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Ed Bye In His Own Words
It’s depressingly easy to forget the influence and contribution TV directors have made to comedy over the years. It’s not like the movies, which revere the director, and forget the writers, it’s the other way round really. So it was nice to stumble across this interview with Ed Bye in The Stage from the 3rd…
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The Comic Strip Clipped
There’s something fasincating about charting the development of things through their contemporaneous newspaper clippings. So let’s take a wander through the early years of The Comic Strip, and it’s beginnings in Soho. On the 25th September 1980, news broke that a contentious row about the chosen venue of the new Comic Strip had been resolved.…
