The Tracey Ullman Show – Simon Dunn

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Sunglasses with Tracey and Ade

While we all wilt in the heat of a decaying planet, we might as well enjoy the sun. Here’s Tracey Ullman’s cover version of Sunglasses, featuring an appearance by Adrian Edmondson. The single spent nine weeks in the chart in 1984, peeking at number 18. The video shoot made the paper, mentioned in the Daily…

June 17, 2022
Tracey Ullman On The Tonight Show

On January 5th 1998, Tracey Ullman appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, alongside Robin Williams. She was there to promote her new series and tie in book Tracey Takes On. This was her HBO follow up to her FOX show, and it ran for 65 episodes over four seasons.

March 5, 2022
Why-De-Why on Three Of A Kind

I always find sitcom spoofs on contemporaneous comedy shows a bit … icky. And often they hit the wrong note. Some of this happens here, but Ullman’s impression is rather good.

October 6, 2021
Schedule Spotlight: Fox Sundays 89-90

We’re going to skip CBS on Sundays in our schedule spotlight, because it’s just 60 Minutes, Murder She Wrote, and a movie. Fox on the other hand, is much more interesting. They began their Sunday evenings with Booker, a police procedural series co-created by Stephen J Cannell. It has a title sequence that manages to…

July 8, 2021

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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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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…