Category: British
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Beane’s Of Boston
We’ve had a brief look at the Australian version of Are You Being Served? before. Now, thanks to Ben Baker, who books about television you definitely should buy and read, I stumbled across the US remake of the show. It was made by CBS as a pilot, and was re-titled Beane’s Of Boston. The story…
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Noel’s Overseas House Party
Whatever your thoughts about Noel’s House Party, it was a monster hit, and at its height, Noel himself ruled the screen for that hour. It was so well-watched that it’s no wonder the show was sold overseas and re-made in different countries. On RTL4 in the Netherlands, the show was called Monte Carlo. Mr Blobby…
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Alan Coming Soon
Here’s a really nice trailer for what was then the brand new series of I’m Alan Partridge. This was run a few times on the build up to the show. Here’s the same one, sitting amongst the more late night fare, after the end of Pulp Fiction, which was shown the night before (Sunday 2nd…
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Comedy Connections: Red Dwarf
Here’s the episode of Comedy Connections about the small rouge one. It aired at the end of August in 2004, during the long break between the BBC series and the Dave series.
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Roy Clarke’s Fantasy Sci Fi Epic
Keeping Up Appearances was on at the end of every year for its first four series, then it took a whole year off before Hyacinth returned for the final series. Also strangely absent from BBC screens in 1994 was the perenniel presence of Last Of The Summer Wine. Why the gap? Did Roy take some…
