Category: British
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It Failed Miserably
The more I think about it, the more I realise that Blackadder The Third is probably my favourite era of the show. It’s certainly the series I think about more than any other, and that might be because of the performance of Hugh Laurie as the Prince Regent, and how well it juxtaposes with this…
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So Evil, So Funny, So Good
Maybe I’m tired, but I can’t seem to find any previews or reviews of The Black Adder when it first aired in 1983. I wanted to see if they matched the received thinking about the series. So instead, here’s how The Stage announced the return of the second series, in January of 1986. On the…
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Rowan Raises The Roof
Here’s a good review from The Stage, dated 13th Match 1986. It’s Rowan Atkinson’s live show at the Shaftesbury Theatre (the one used in The Tall Guy?), which was called The New Revue, written by Atkinson, Curtis, and Elton, with music by Howard Goodall. If this is the same version of the show that got…
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More Whoops Apocaclips
A few years after the TV series, Marshall and Renwick adapted Whoops Apocalypse for the big screen. Here’s an early mention of the movie, as one of the actors flew into town to begin filming, from The Daily Mirror on 2nd December 1985. It’s fair to say that Kim Adams in The Fulham Chronicle was…
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The George And Mildred Set Conundrum
I’ve been watching George And Mildred, belatedly, for the first time. It’s not at all what I was expecting, and rarely, if ever, falls into the holes I imagined it would. But one thing has been nagging me. The Ropers, and their neighbours, have houses that are exactly alike, as you might expect. This makes…
