Tag: Absolutely Fabulous
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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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Titles By Jump Design
Last night, Twitter reminded me of the amazing title sequence for Smith And Jones, as the duo moved from BBC Two to BBC One. If you’ve not seen it, it looked like this. It’s still excellent. It was shot on 35mm film over two days, using motion control cameras, and was conceived by Jump Design…
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Don’t Question Patsy
I hadn’t noticed this verbal tick of Patsy’s on Absolutely Fabulous. Had you?
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Absolutely Fabulous Passports
In the 2001 episode of Absolutely Fabulous, Edina, Patsy, Saffy, and Bubble take a day trip to Paris. The episode is longer than normal, and mostly shot on location in the city. There’s a scene on the Eurostar, where they compare passport photos. This is Saffron’s. She was born on 17th March 1975, so was…
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Comedy Is … Nice Work If You Can Get It
There was a time in the late 1990s when I would watch cable television into the small hours of the night. And more often than not, I was watching The Paramount Comedy Channel. Home to an eclectic mix of British, American, and Australian sitcoms, sketch shows, stand up, and panel shows – the channel’s strap-line…
