Category: British

  • Loadsasekonda
    Loadsasekonda

    I like the different people Sekonda have used to flog us their watches. Here’s Harry Enfield as Loadsamoney.

  • The Madness Of Ronnie, Sekonda, And The Honda City
    The Madness Of Ronnie, Sekonda, And The Honda City

    I have an ear worm, and sometimes the best way to exorcise those burrowing nuisances is to share them. So, this is what’s eating into my cerebral cortex right now – Madness, only it’s Madness flogging us a watch. Which reminded me that Ronnie Barker once tried to flog us the same thing. It’s not…

  • His Lordship Entertains
    His Lordship Entertains

    You may recognise Lord Rustless from Hark At Barker. Three years later, his Lordship moved from ITV over to the BBC, and began running his estate as a hotel. His Lordship Entertains was written by Ronnie Barker, under the pseudonym Jonathan Cobbald, and was dirtected by Harold Snoad. It ran for seven episodes in the…

  • Some Alexei Tunes
    Some Alexei Tunes

    Here’s a music video, featured in the documentary The Private Life Of The Ford Cortina, from 1982. And here’s Ullo John! Gotta New Motor, from an 1984 edition of Top Of The Pops.

  • Terry Venables Created An ITV Detective Show
    Terry Venables Created An ITV Detective Show

    Sometimes, there are seven words that form a sentence that makes perfect, literal sense, but together seem so incongruous that the meaning just makes your brow knot. Like ‘Craig Ferguson Created ITV’s Doc Martin Show‘ or ‘Angelica Houston Was The First Mrs Brown’. TERRY VENABLES CREATED AN ITV DETECTIVE SHOW He bloody did. After co-authoring…

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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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