Category: About Writing
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Roy Clarke On Characters
There’s not much of Roy Clarke, the writer of Last Of The Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, and Open All Hours to be found on YouTube. Here he is talking about his approach to developing sitcoms around characters. I had a thought the other day, that if Edie in LOTSW is the prototype for Hyacinth…
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Proto Hyacinth
During my re-watch of Last Of The Summer Wine (I’m up to 1989 now), a few days ago, when he first appeared on screen, I tweeted this. And then his sister Edie came on screen, and I added this tweet. While this was true of Seymour initially, at least for a couple of episodes, he…
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It’s Seinfeldian Is That
Have a look at this episode of Last Of The Summer Wine, starting at 5m30s in. It’s from the series four episode Greenfingers. In fact, that entire scene in Clegg’s house is worth watching, and it’s my belief that the whole thing wouldn’t feel at all out of place in an episode of Seinfeld.
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Douglas Adams On The South Bank Show
I enjoyed watching The South Bank Show about Douglas Adams in 1992. They did some scenes from his books. Like this one. Here’s Stephen Fry’s bits from said show. And here’s the whole thing if you want it. Happy Towel Day.
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Katy Brand Welcomes Careful Drivers
I recently completed my long overdue re-watch of the BBC era Red Dwarf, and it made me want to pick up the books again. I had read the smeg out of Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life, and I didn’t quite appreciate how much they had informed my love of the show as…
