Category: Comedy
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Comedy Producer On The Look-Out For New Talent
Here’s an interesting page from The Stage, dated 16th May 1985, featuring and interview with Colin Gilbert, who was then the head of BBC Scotland’s Comedy Unit. He had recently produced A Kick Up The Eighties, and Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee. See also the announcement of ITV sitcom Trouble And Strife, as…
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BBC Announces 14 New Comedy Series
… in 1973. One of them is Last Of The Summer Wine. I expect one of those pilots might become Porridge.
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Clips Of A Feather
A few days after the debut of the first episode of Birds Of A Feather, Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke appeared in this spread for the Daily Mirror (19th October 1989). Weird that the show was being billed as a comedy drama. Towards the end of the first series, James Green wrote this somewhat patronising…
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Smith, Jones, Hale, Pace, Croft, and Craig (Naked)
Here’s a nice review page from The Stage, dated 29th November 1990, in a week when Smith And Jones, You Rang M’Lord?, and Nicholas Craig – The Naked Actor all aired.
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Alas Clips And Jones
Here’s a great article from the Liverpool Echo, dated 28th January 1984, previewing the upcoming new series of Alas Smith And Jones. Can anyone figure out which sketch it is they’re rehearsing? Good to learn that John Lloyd was the warm up act for the studio recordings.
