Category: British
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The Saturday Night Armisclips
I really enjoyed The Saturday/Friday Night Armistice when it was on, and every now and then I seek it out again and rewatch it. In researching this blog, I also realise that it may have been directly responsible for my Seinfeld obsession. On the 16th March 1995, the Birmingham Daily Post featured a long article…
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Clips Of Fun
I don’t know why, but it seems apropos to begin a trawl through the newspaper clippings for Fist Of Fun with this little snippet from the Amersham Advertiser. It’s one of the first mentions of the series I can find, and appeared on Wednesday 15th March 1995. The series began just a month later, so…
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Terry And June Take A Close Look At Themselves In The Mirror
I think it’s fair to say that the Daily Mirror were not fans of the sitcom Terry And June. From the moment the show was announced as a retooling of Happy Ever After, the snark in their coverage of the show was apparent. Take this, from the 20th October 1979, as an example. Tony Pratt…
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Laugh Track Partridge
Just where did the seemingly prevalent misconception that the first series of I’m Alan Partridge didn’t have a laugh track, while series two did, actually come from? I remember a friend bemoaning this fact to me at the time of the second series being broadcast, and I was perplexed by it. I didn’t have a…
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Alan Behaving Badly
In the week that I’m Alan Partridge first aired, we also got to see a new series by Ray Galton (Get Well Soon), and a new series of Men Behaving Badly. Maggie Brown wrote about all three sitcoms in The Stage on Thursday 13th November 1997.
