Category: British
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Smashie And Nicey on Comic Relief
Here’s Harry and Paul’s turn on the 1993 Comic Relief, with a great intro by Lenny Henry. Here’s the Bohemian Rhapsody bit that’s missing … I would give anything to see the full song by Jeeves and Wooster. If you’re wondering why Kryten is missing the tip of his nose, you should read The Man…
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Doctors And Nurses
Sometimes ITV makes programmes that are broadcast on the BBC. Hence, why the Carlton produced and ITV Studios distributed sitcom Doctors And Nurses appeared on BBC One in 2004. Written by Phil Hammond and Nigel Smith, it featured a rather stellar cast, including Adrian Edmondson, Mina Anwar, David Mitchell, and Madhav Sharma. This one completely…
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Loved By You
Following on from the lacklustre response to the British remake of Married … With Children, Carlton persisted with their project to remake all of the succesful US sitcoms, next turning their attention to Mad About You. Paul Reiser’s sitcom hadn’t really been seen on terrestrial screens in 1997, and so they renamed it Loved By…
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Married For Life
After the success of retooling Who’s The Boss? into The Upper Hand, Carlton had a stab at converting another monster US hit for UK screens. And for some reason they chose Married … With Children. I mean, after two hundred episodes (by 1995), the show was doing very well for Fox, but it does seem…
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Mike Smash On Without Walls
Here’s Mike Smash bookending interviews with a crop of Radio 1 DJs on the Channel 4 documnetary strand Without Walls. It aired in 1992, and I think you can see the seeds of Smashie and Nicey’s End Of An Era in a lot of this.
