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Chase A Rabbit Down A Hole
On this day, in 2002, the cover of Broadcasting & Cable Magazine featured this photograph: The cover seems only to be justified by two sentences in the whole magazine. Here’s the first: NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker is “very high” on a pilot starring Chevy Chase he describes as an updated My Three Sons, “only…
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Chase A Rabbit Down A Hole
On this day, in 2002, the cover of Broadcasting & Cable Magazine featured this photograph: The cover seems only to be justified by two sentences in the whole magazine. Here’s the first: NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker is “very high” on a pilot starring Chevy Chase he describes as an updated My Three Sons, “only…
Bottom
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Richie, ADHD, And Me
Why does Richie from Bottom resonate with me? It can’t just be the brilliant performance of Rik Mayall. Alan B’Stard, Rick, Micky Love, Drop Dead Fred are all brilliant characters, brilliantly realised, and I think about them a lot. But I think about Richie. Every. Single. Day. I’ve thought about Bottom so much over the…
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Good Tune, Isn’t It?
My current ear worm is this. First of all, is that Doon Mackichan singing? Second, this isn’t the first time the song has been used in a campaign for the weirdly sexualised chocolate bar. Here’s a much earlier one, with a weirdly sexualised Frank Muir.
Comedy Is …
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Comedy Is … Based On A Hit Movie
I didn’t watch everything the Paramount Comedy Channel offered up or course, most notably the early evening fare. So I never watched the sitcom Clueless. I’ve no idea what it was like. And I only recently watched the movie it was based on too. But it does give me the opportunity to note an interesting…
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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…
