Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted August 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Accident Prone said: Spatz had three series. Three.That's thirty three episodes of an early 90's sitcom for kids starring Jennifer Calvert and Vas Blackwood. The fucking state of it. And Joe Greco of The Pink Windmill Kids viral video fame. they had this weird obsession with making American style kids sitcoms with American actors at that time. I remember Mike and Angelo and I think it was Criss Cross which was set in a boarding school of some kind I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members TheBurningRed Posted August 31, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 31, 2019 12 hours ago, simonworden said: Man, i'd forgotten about Amanda Holden in Kiss Me Kate, she used to enter my thoughts often as a young lad. I think I was obsessed with her for a short time. If I was 12 again now I doubt i'd even flinch at that as i'd probably only get off on hardcore latex double anal or whatever young lads search for these days. For me, it was a certain scene of hers in The Grimleys. Then all I wanted at that time of my life was a teacher like Miss Titley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 31, 2019 Moderators Share Posted August 31, 2019 (edited) Ruby Snape from The Grimleys drinks in one of my locals #shitfact. Also, how fucking great was The Grimleys? Shame it never gets a repeat. I think ITV 3 repeated it in '05, and I've not seen it on TV since. Edited August 31, 2019 by PowerButchi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted August 31, 2019 Moderators Share Posted August 31, 2019 34 minutes ago, scratchdj said: Mr Biffo recounts his time as a writer on My Family: https://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/scripts-of-my-years-part-14-my-family-by-mr-biffo This is great. Quote After one recording, its biggest star, Robert Lindsay - who'd been a hero of mine, when he'd played the lead in Citizen Smith back in the 70s - came within inches of my face, expensive shirt unbuttoned halfway to his groin, and sneered: "So you're one of the new ones are you? Told you what a bastard I am have they?". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted August 31, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 31, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said: And Joe Greco of The Pink Windmill Kids viral video fame. they had this weird obsession with making American style kids sitcoms with American actors at that time. I remember Mike and Angelo and I think it was Criss Cross which was set in a boarding school of some kind I think Mike & Angelo was alright at the time. It started to decline when halfway through they got a new Angelo, and then a new Mike (following a spell with a Michaela). Tyler Butterworth must have figured there's more money and better career longevity in advert voiceovers. Anybody remember Kappatoo? Edited August 31, 2019 by jazzygeofferz Got my Angelos in the wrong order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 31, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 31, 2019 Interesting little tying-together, as both My Family and The Upper Hand have been discussed: Robert Lindsay was married to Diana Weston (who, along with Kellie Bright, was my 14 year-old self's only reason for ever watching it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 31, 2019 Moderators Share Posted August 31, 2019 (edited) Not that interesting. The Mr Biffo article is pretty fucking great though. Edited August 31, 2019 by PowerButchi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted August 31, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 31, 2019 5 hours ago, Carbomb said: Interesting little tying-together, as both My Family and The Upper Hand have been discussed: Robert Lindsay was married to Diana Weston (who, along with Kellie Bright, was my 14 year-old self's only reason for ever watching it). I had no idea they were married. No wonder he became such a grumpy old bastard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted October 14, 2019 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2019 On 8/29/2019 at 12:43 PM, wordsfromlee said: seems like they were giving every non-actor their own sitcom around that time Davina McCall got one. Remember Johnny Vaughan’s? On 8/29/2019 at 12:59 PM, Astro Hollywood said: Remember it? I sat through the fucking thing a few weeks back (the write-up hits Patreon next month, mod-power-abuse fans). It's clambered over the 30-day paywall now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted October 13, 2020 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2020 As you lot seemed to tolerate my write-ups of shite shitcoms, here's a video essay I did about the abhorrent Channel 4 80's show Dream Stuffing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted October 13, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted October 13, 2020 (edited) Ah, I love Ray Burdis. He looks like Billy Bragg there. And Perry Benson as well! Forgotten classic if you ask me. I have to say, the sets in that show might be the most depressing I've ever seen. I'm sure that's what they were going for, but the tone isn't 15 Storeys High and I reckon a multicamera studio sitcom probably shouldn't have sets covered in mildew and piss stained lifts. Doesn't exactly make you want to chuckle along. Great stuff @Astro Hollywood I laughed out loud at the "big gay cock" line which is an indictment of me and you. Edited October 13, 2020 by gmoney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnum Milano Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Funnily enough I was reading the Slinger's Day write up last night, as that was one I've never heard of before, like this Dream Stuffing. I don't know why I've completely missed your blog until fairly recently (it was the Byker Grove link that was posted the other week that got me checking it out) but I've been thoroughly enjoying diving into the various articles. Heck, I even ended up watching Copy Cats on YouTube after reading that one. Davro's complete inability to do impressions was something that had bypassed me as a youngster, a personal highlight was his "Mike Baldwin" from Coronation Street where he doesn't even try to impersonate him, just speaks in his usual voice! Whatever Gary Wilmot must think looking back on that show I'll never know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Best blog on the web, one of my absolute favourite reads. Where else am I going to get a thorough analysis of It's a Royal Knockout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted October 13, 2020 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2020 57 minutes ago, gmoney said: I have to say, the sets in that show might be the most depressing I've ever seen. I'm sure that's what they were going for, but the tone isn't 15 Storeys High and I reckon a multicamera studio sitcom probably shouldn't have sets covered in mildew and piss stained lifts. It is massively depressing, but - and this might just be my blighted imagination - I feel like any Thatcher-era sitcom that wasn't about the middle classes looked like that. Wasn't Del Boy's flat similarly grim? I think OFCOM came for your head if you didn't demonstrate someone was poor via the iconography of a graffifi stained piss-lift. Even the kids drama/comedy shows were at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted October 13, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted October 13, 2020 3 minutes ago, Astro Hollywood said: It is massively depressing, but - and this might just be my blighted imagination - I feel like any Thatcher-era sitcom that wasn't about the middle classes looked like that. Wasn't Del Boy's flat similarly grim? I think OFCOM came for your head if you didn't demonstrate someone was poor via the iconography of a graffifi stained piss-lift. Even the kids drama/comedy shows were at it. I was thinking about the Only Fools... flat as I typed that, and I think the difference was that it while it was a bit grim, it was also colourful and clean. I don't remember the Trotters living in grey filth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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