Category: Adverts
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Comedy Is Paramount
CBS All Access, the streaming service like Disney+, but using the ViacomCBS catalogue, is soon to be rebranded as Paramount+. This put me in mind of The Paramount Comedy Channel, because I’m stuck firmly in the 1990s. When the channel first launched, it was simply called The Paramount Channel, and like its streaming progeny, it…
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Tequila And Bonetti
Most of Donald P. Bellasario’s work, sometimes a little wacky, is great, and enduring. Then there’s this. Tequlia & Bonetti on the surface looks a lot like a Turner & Hooch cash-in for TV. But right from the start, you can see the clash of tones. The title sequence starts with the bleak montage of…
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Robbie Talks Back To Clive
In an interview about Cracker, in The Nineties special of TV Years Magazine, creator Jimmy McGovern talks about the casting of Robbie Coltrane as Fitz. He’s one of the quickest-witted people I’ve ever met. I saw an interview he did with Clive Anderson – my God, they took no prisoners. They just went for each…
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R Soles At The Friendy Fascist Pig Bank
This Hale & Pace sketch … … reminded me of this Smith & Jones sketch … … which reminded me of this from The Young Ones. Which lead me to wonder – is the Jools Holland ‘Good Morning Sir’ bit, a little reference to this? If so, then that’s pretty meta. Referencing an advert that…
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Tina Fey Commercials
Here are some commercials for American Express, as fronted by Tina Fey. Here’s one for a product I have no understanding of, in an advert that makes no sense. And here’s one from 1995 for … something or other.
