Category: Red Dwarf
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The Fast Red Fun Smell Show
On this day in 1996, Fargo was released in cinemas. On this day in 1987, NBC aired the last ever episode of The A-Team. But also, on this day in ’96, as it was a Friday, you could have watched BBC Two all night, and had a great time. At 9pm, The Fast Show was…
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Novel Sitcoms
As happens sometimes, the waft of an idea teased my brain this morning, and I wondered if there was a series of blogs to be written about movie tie-in novels. Then I realised how much effort this would be, and decided against it. My mind wandered a little further, and I started wondering about sitcoms…
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Waterfront Beat (30 Years Ago And All That)
I know you’re here because it’s the 30th anniversary of the city of Tiraspol briefly claiming its indepedence from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, but that will have to wait for another time. As I do sometimes, I had a look through the BBC TV listings for this day 30 years ago, and found it…
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Mrs BJ Smegma
What’s your favourite comedy name? In my more formative years, I remember being told by someone whom I respected that the use of comedy names was the last resort of the desperate. This person of course, was very, very wrong. Re-watching Bottom, I’m appreciating some of the peripheral character names a great deal. Mr Sex,…
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Lonely Sitcom Characters
There are more lonely sitcom characters than you might expect. The first one that springs to mind for me is Richie, in Bottom. The whole show is pretty bleak in a Beckett kind of way. Two people who can’t stand one another are forced to live out their shitty existence together, and smash each other…
