Category: Continuity
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Some BBC Video Trailers
The space on a VHS tape was limited, so it’s a marvel that some of it was used for trailers, but the BBC were very good at these some times. Like this one, from 1991 for example. By my reckoning, a complete VHS collection of Last Of The Summer Wine, covering all 295 episodes, would…
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This Is NBCABCFoxCBS
Every summer the major US networks put on a show, announcing their fall lineups for the coming year. Here’s a collection of those presentations from 1993. Starting with CBS, which had just signed up Letterman for the Late Show. NBC was about to top the ratings for a decade, and a part of that success…
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Comedy Is Paramount
CBS All Access, the streaming service like Disney+, but using the ViacomCBS catalogue, is soon to be rebranded as Paramount+. This put me in mind of The Paramount Comedy Channel, because I’m stuck firmly in the 1990s. When the channel first launched, it was simply called The Paramount Channel, and like its streaming progeny, it…
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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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Beyond Westworld
I was aware that there had been a sequel to Westworld (1973), called Futureworld (1976), made by a totally different set of people than the original. And I am of course aware of the current HBO series of Westworld. What I wasn’t aware of though, was the 1980 attempt at a series based on the…
