Time Trumpet – Simon Dunn

Tag: Time Trumpet

Time Trumpet Viewer Comments

I’m a sucker for background jokes, and Armando Iannucci’s work is littered with them. Take these on-screen messages scrolling by during a segment of 2006’s Time Trumpet as an example. The premise should be self-evident, and the messages are best read in Iannucci’s voice. It’s not that easy to make out, but the Disclaimer reads:…

November 30, 2020
A Time Trumpet Filled With Soup

I seem to remember Time Trumpet being coolly received when it was broadcast in 2006. The show was created by Armando Iannucci, Roger Drew, and Will Smith, and was set in 2031, as an excuse to look back on contemporary events. It follows a similar format to Iannucci’s earlier shows Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt,…

November 28, 2020

Buy My Books

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…

Follow

Most Read

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…