Category: British

  • Reggie
    Reggie

    Not included in the complete Reginald Perrin DVD boxset is this, the ABC remake of the show, starring Richard Mulligan and Timothy Busfield. It’s called Reggie, has a theme tune, and was adapted by Dinah and Julie Kirgo.

  • It’s Time For …
    It’s Time For …

    Here’s a few curios from the newspapers about The Mary Whitehouse Experience. First up, from the Dublin Sunday World, on 15th July 1990, there’s a review of what sounds like an horrendous episode of The James Whale Radio Show. This is a review, from The Stage, of the TV show on 17th January 1991. There’s…

  • The Hammersmith Bugle In No News Shocker
    The Hammersmith Bugle In No News Shocker

    Here’s another one of those brilliant prop newspaper investigations we all love. This one focuses on Eddie’s paper in Hole, from the third series of Bottom. It’s the fictional Hammersmith Bugle, and they’ve gone to the trouble of mocking up their own front page. No news shocker … on the front, with Cup Tie Chaos…

  • Ade’s Life At The Bottom
    Ade’s Life At The Bottom

    Here’s a Mercury TV Exclusive, from the Birmingham Weekly Mercury, on 12th November 1995. Apparently, Bottom is an ITV show … Here’s the next page … And here’s an article from the same edition, this time about the new sitcom Faith In The Future.

  • Richard And Eddie Have Hit Bottom
    Richard And Eddie Have Hit Bottom

    I originally mistyped the title as ‘Richard And Eddie Have Hot Bottom’, which would have been a good headline for an article about the show doing well in the ratings, or selling out theatres around the country for the live show. As it is, here’s an article from the Nottingham Evening Post on Friday 15th…

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  • Nineteen 90s Shows
    Nineteen 90s Shows

    I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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