Category: US
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Sitcom-puter Games
Here’s a really interesting advert for The Young Ones game, complete with fill in-game graphics, and a voice over. I don’t know who the voice over is, but every now and then, there’s a hint that it might be Ben Elton. I’m probably wrong. As an aside, in a related vein, here’s the gameplay for…
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Jamie Lee Curtis’ Sitcom
Today I learned, remarkably I didn’t know this before, that Jamie Lee Curtis was in a sitcom. it was called Anything But Love, and co-starred Richard Lewis. Here’s a trailer for it, which is tonally strange, considering the show itself was an audience sitcom. Anything But Love was created by Wendy Kout, and aired on…
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Maria Charles’ NBC Sitcom Pilot
You may know Maria Charles from the ITV sitcom Agony (among many other roles including Never The Twain), which also starred Maureen Lipman. It ran for three series at the end of the 1970s and start of the 1980s, and was written by Len Richmond and Anna Raeburn. Charles played Lipman’s mother. The two reprised…
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Griff And Nige Drink Bud Light
I came across a brilliant YouTube channel last night, thanks to Twitter, and it’s well worth exploring. But two short adverts jumped out at me. First, this one. At first, you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a British advert, but as it goes on, it becomes readily apparent that its a US one. It…
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Bea Arthur Flogging Stuff
For some reason, no-one to this day quite knows why, Bea Arthur starred in a series of adverts for a Toronto based drug store for seven years. In 2013, the company was sold to Loblaw. True fact.
