Category: Comedy
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Contemporaneous The Young Ones Clippings
So much has been written about The Young Ones over the years, I thought it might be interesting to look back at what was being written about it during the first few weeks that it aired. On the morning of the debut of Demolition, this write up appeared in The Daily Mirror, written by Ken…
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All Night Long
Funny how the memory plays tricks on you. For the longest time I keep remembering a mid-1990s 8.30pm sitcom starring Keith Barron, working in an all-night bakery. Sometimes I forget what it was called, and it takes ages to recall the title … but my mind keeps coming back to it. All Night Long, written…
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The Kit On BBC Knowledge
I have a soft spot for those early wilderness years of BBC cable channels like Choice, and Knowledge. Here’s one of Charlie Brooker’s most early appearances, on a show called The Kit.
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How To Watch Television
Charlie Brooker’s first show on television about television wasn’t Screenwipe, it was an episode of The Arts Show on Channel Four in 2003, called How To Watch Television.
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Rush Hour
A year before he made a bigger splash with Dead Set, Charlie Brooker created a sketch show for BBC Three. Rush Hour featured Adam Buxton, Miranda Hart, Katy Wix, Marek Larwood, Kerry Godliman, Lorna Watson, and a few more. It aired on the channel in March and April of 2007. It’s quite a nice conceit,…
