Category: Bottom
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Down Under Your Bottom
Here’s a nice spin on a familiar thing on this blog. It’s the TV listings write up for Bottom, when it first aired on the ABC in Australia, from the Torres News on 18th November 1994. That’s rather later than I would have expected it to reach there. At first blush, it does look a […]
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Your Bottom’s Listing
Let’s have a look at the listings for the debut of Bottom, on 17th September 1991. We’ll start with the Staffordshire Sentinel, because why not? It’s not often described as a black comedy, even though it’s terribly bleak. That said, we see that descriptor again, this time from Graham Young in the Sandwell Evening Mail. […]
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Proctology: A Bottom Examination
For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s […]
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The Hammersmith Bugle In No News Shocker
Here’s another one of those brilliant prop newspaper investigations we all love. This one focuses on Eddie’s paper in Hole, from the third series of Bottom. It’s the fictional Hammersmith Bugle, and they’ve gone to the trouble of mocking up their own front page. No news shocker … on the front, with Cup Tie Chaos […]
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Ade’s Life At The Bottom
Here’s a Mercury TV Exclusive, from the Birmingham Weekly Mercury, on 12th November 1995. Apparently, Bottom is an ITV show … Here’s the next page … And here’s an article from the same edition, this time about the new sitcom Faith In The Future.
