Category: British
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How To Write A Smith And Jones Head To Head
I’ll be honest, I bought this used book under the impression that it was a collection of sketch scripts, and put it aside to read later. I’ve just opened it, and obviously, it’s just transcripts of Smith & Jones’ Head To Heads. Hence the title. I’m a moron. It’s a little disappointing, as I have…
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Tom Hanks’ Fly Is Open
The brain often has nostalgic bouts for informative times, and last night as I watched a film featuring Tea Leoni, my mind started wandering back to the late nineties, when I would gorge myself into the dawn hours each night on The Paramount Comedy Channel. It took me a moment to realise this was because…
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Robbie Talks Back To Clive
In an interview about Cracker, in The Nineties special of TV Years Magazine, creator Jimmy McGovern talks about the casting of Robbie Coltrane as Fitz. He’s one of the quickest-witted people I’ve ever met. I saw an interview he did with Clive Anderson – my God, they took no prisoners. They just went for each…
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The Original Brian Pern
Here’s a compilation of the original online sketches of Brian Pern, released as a BBC web exclusive in 2009/10. Written by Rhys Thomas and Simon Day, the character was later awarded his own series, which is well worth your time. Listen out at the 6m30s mark for Rhys laughing behind the camera.
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The Wandavision Set
The Wandavision set sounds like a 1950s television, but in this case, we’re looking at the set from the first couple of episodes of Wandavision. As I understand it, the show will move forward in time, and we will see sitcom sets from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s. I don’t know how many UK…
