Category: British
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Wooburn Grange Country Club
You’ll recognise the Wooburn Grange Country Club, famous as it is for being the building used as Fawlty Towers. Unfortutantely, the building burned down in 1991, and was replaced with a load of houses. The club was located in Bourne’s End in Buckinghamshire.
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Kingsmoll By Mel And Sue
I could have sworn Mel and Sue did a brief run of adverts for Philadelphia soft cheese. Am I wrong? Or am I conflating it with these for Kingsmill, in which we see soft cheese being spread on bread?
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Titles By Jump Design
Last night, Twitter reminded me of the amazing title sequence for Smith And Jones, as the duo moved from BBC Two to BBC One. If you’ve not seen it, it looked like this. It’s still excellent. It was shot on 35mm film over two days, using motion control cameras, and was conceived by Jump Design…
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Phil Kay Feels
One of the more memorable of my live stand up experiences was watching Phil Kay expound an hour long shaggy dog story about some fish and chips. I think my first experience of him would have been his appearances on TV, perhaps on Edinburgh Nights, or Festival of Fun, or maybe even The Stand Up…
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Don’t Slam Your Podcast!
Don’t Slam Your Podcast! is a podcast all about the sitcom 2point4 Children. It’s great, and takes an in-depth look at the show episode by episode, including interviews with show creator Andrew Marshall. So it was a great pleasure to be asked on to talk about the sister show Health and Efficiency.
