A Prince Among Men
The latest Shitcom to fall under my gaze has a lot in common with the previous entry, Captain...
2020-05-25 23:06:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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You Are Haunted - Episode 3
Nobody wants to stay dead.
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Theme is Comascape - Chant, licensed under Crea...
2020-05-23 17:01:40 +0000 UTC View PostGone To Pot
Though ITV's 2017 reality show, Gone To Pot – a series that sends celebrities to learn...
2020-05-15 23:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Accursed 90s: The Word
Unlike a lot of what I cover on here, The Word isn't some forgotten piece of pop culture...
2020-05-05 23:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostWho Do You Do?
Having looked at Freddie Starr during the arse-end of his television career, it's time to examine...
2020-04-26 09:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostBruce Forsyth's Big Night
In the late seventies, Bruce Forsyth was riding high at the BBC with The Generation ...
2020-04-15 23:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostYou Are Haunted - Episode 2
Fathers and sons, crime and punishment.
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Theme is Comascape - Chant, licensed under 2020-04-09 18:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Miss Great Britain 1984
There's something inherently 1970s about the great British beauty contest, and though this is the...
2020-04-05 23:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Accursed 90s – Craig Charles' Funky Bunker
This is going to be unpleasant. Take the nightmare of 90's ITV's post-pub programming – Get...
2020-03-27 00:06:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Cool Britannia feat. Freddie Starr
The mid-90s were an incredibly exciting time for British comedy. Among others, '94 gave us the te...
2020-03-17 00:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unpredictable Michael Barrymore
Lets go back to a time before Michael Barrymore was alleged to have done or covered up a murder, ...
2020-03-07 00:07:51 +0000 UTC View PostPodcast Launch: You Are Haunted - Episode 1
To celebrate our moving into the 3rd year of this endeavour, here's the first episode of my new podcast, You Are Haunted. What's it about? It's better if you go in blind. This isn't replac...
2020-03-06 17:25:50 +0000 UTC View PostThat Yellow Bastard – The Occult Whimsy of Wizbit
As I've addressed before, I detest the lazy way of looking back at kids TV and importing adult sl...
2020-02-26 00:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe Accursed 90s: James Whale on Television
Few things encapsulate the feel of 90's Britain quite like the 'tell it like it is' tabloid colum...
2020-02-16 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post1988 Children's Royal Variety
It speaks of how comparatively little media there was back in the eighties that the Royal Variety...
2020-02-06 00:00:43 +0000 UTC View PostFlash Fiction Month #1 – Bird
As we're approaching the 2nd anniversary here, I thought I'd do something special for the $5 tier, so for the whole of February, I'll be posting a tiny story every single day. As it's a...
2020-02-01 00:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostGamesMaster: Snapshots of a Decade
I can't be delving into the cultural lawlessness of the 1990s without looking at GamesMaster<...
2020-01-27 00:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Butler
Your early teens are that feet-finding period when you're discovering things – movies, music, f...
2020-01-17 00:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a Royal Knockout
The perception of the Royal Family is in an odd place right now. While thousands die of austerity...
2020-01-07 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostI Watched Jim Davidson's Adult Panto II - Boobs in the Wood
Seeing as the response to 2019-12-23 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Les Dennis and Russ Abbot at Christmas
The Christmas edition of The Les Dennis Laughter Show aired on 22nd December 1990, betwe...
2019-12-13 00:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostNoel's Live, Live Christmas Breakfast Show
For a good while, Noel Edmonds was Christmas television manifest. More than just his sea...
2019-12-03 00:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostEmu and Orville at Christmas
This tale of two birds begins with Emu at Christmas, a festive episode of Emu's...
2019-11-23 00:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe Krankies at Christmas
For non-Brits or millennials unaware of the Krankies, how best to describe them without se...
2019-11-13 00:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm Famous and Frightened
The mid-2000s were an amazing time for good-bad paranormal television, with Most Haunted...
2019-10-23 23:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostBaywatch does Monsters and Mermaids
The weird talking-point trivia about Baywatch is the way it eventually rebranded into pa...
2019-10-13 23:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Accursed 90s: Talk Show Goths
So much of 90's trash culture either emanated from the raft of American afternoon talk shows, or ...
2019-10-04 10:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post