Category: Chat Show
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Miriam And Scorsese
This should brighten your day, like everything Miriam Margolyes ever says.
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Tommy Cockles To Powergen
My first experience of Simon Day, I think, was as Tommy Cockles, appearing as a regular on Paramount City, right at the start of the 1990s. It was a good few years before The Fast Show. Here he is, as Cockles, on Wogan in 1992. The applause at the end seems a little sudden. Was…
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Mrs Murton’s Nightcap
The genesis of any TV show if often fascinating, as is the development of characters off-screen that later went on to be so famous for being on-screen. So here’s an amazing curio, the very first, unaired, pilot for Mrs Merton, known as she was then as Mrs Murton, offering us all a nice Nightcap. The…
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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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Gorden Kaye On Wogan
Here’s an interview from Wogan, with Gordon Kaye, just as the first series of ‘Allo ‘Allo was gathering an audience, and the second series had just been shot. I still find it odd hearing Kaye’s real accent, and it’s interesting to hear him make reference to Secret Army. Why are there bits of the Every…
