Category: e.phemera
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Popcorn Movie Music
I’m in the middle of a massive clear out of stuff, and I came across this. It’s a tape that must have come free on the front of Empire magazine, and it features Popcorn Movie Music. I like how inconsistently the cover veers from the name of a movie to the name of the artist.…
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Pirates Of The Crinkley Bottom
There’s an interesting credit at the end of Noel’s House Party. It looks like this. It’s interesting partly because Noel had been using this game in previous incarnations of the show, and it’s a borrowed format, but it’s more interesting because of Jay Wolpert. Jay Wolpert is the co-story writer of Pirates Of The Caribbean.…
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(Le) Telly Addicts
Who wouldn’t want to watch a full episode of France’s version of Telly Addicts? Here’s an episode of Les Cinglés de la Télé, from 1999. It appears to be more like the later versions of the UK show. There was a French version of the more cosy, earlier format of the show too, called Allume…
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Terry Venables Created An ITV Detective Show
Sometimes, there are seven words that form a sentence that makes perfect, literal sense, but together seem so incongruous that the meaning just makes your brow knot. Like ‘Craig Ferguson Created ITV’s Doc Martin Show‘ or ‘Angelica Houston Was The First Mrs Brown’. TERRY VENABLES CREATED AN ITV DETECTIVE SHOW He bloody did. After co-authoring…
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I’m Awake
Well, this is stuck in my head today, so now it’s stuck in yours.
