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The Guest House Paradiso Game

On the DVD release of Guest House Paradiso, there’s a DVD-ROM game that looks like this. I have a question. Why does Richie look like Brendan Gleason?

October 28, 2021
Buttocks To TV Squash

If you’ve never seen an episode of Bottom, then you might be forgiven for making a parody that completely misses the point of the show. Like this one, for example. That mostrosity is from an ITV show called TV Squash. On paper, this sounds like something I’d want to watch. Made by Yorkshire Television in…

August 4, 2021
Has HE Been?

Merry Christmas and festive wonders.

December 25, 2020
Hancock’s Bottom Culture

Whilst I was rewatching the first series of Bottom, I often noted how the show shared a tone and shape with Steptoe & Son and Hancock’s Half Hour. Currently I’m slowly watching my new Hancock boxset, so the moment I saw this shot, I got very excited. I thought ‘hey up, did Hancock do a…

November 29, 2020
Snakes & Ladders

Sometimes Twitter is lovely, and someone you follow shows you something that you didn’t know about. Yesterday, that meant CuriousBritishTelly directing me to a sitcom I know nothing about, to my surprise. Snakes & Ladders was written by Marks & Gran, and starred Adrian Edmondson and John Gordon-Sinclair. It was on Channel 4 in the…

November 16, 2020

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…