Category: British

  • Queen Of The East
    Queen Of The East

    Here’s something incongruous. It’s a trailer for a show that you won’t believe isn’t a movie parody by French and Saunders. Queen Of The East was one of three films that aired in the Heroes and Villains season, and it seems to have dropped off of Jennifer Saunders’ filmography. The other two installments starred Rowan…

  • Ever Decreasing Trailers
    Ever Decreasing Trailers

    Here’s a trail for the Christmas edition of Ever Decreasing Circles. You can see the final credits of Last Of The Summer Wine first, and then, I assume it’s a goof, where the audio fades out too soon, and the trail itself is strangely music-less.

  • One Trail In The Grave
    One Trail In The Grave

    This is a trailer for One Foot In The Grave, from 1997. It’s Endgame, the 70 minute special.

  • John Lloyd’s Newsround
    John Lloyd’s Newsround

    Here’s an interesting curio. The pilot for Have I Got News For You, described by Paul Merton as ‘a disaster’, was called John Lloyd’s Newsround. As you can see, Lloyd was the host, but pretty much everything else was in place. This clip doesn’t feel that much different to me than the first series. The…

  • Oh Trailer Beeching
    Oh Trailer Beeching

    I never watched Oh, Doctor Beeching! much when it was on, and it’s never quite been something I’ve wanted to revisit, in spite of my current re-watch of Hi-De-Hi!. It’s interesting how this repeat run was being linked to that former series though, rather than the more recent You Rang, M’Lord?.

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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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