The version of Schindler's Lost currently showing on BBC2 is the special edition for Sunday evening television. At regular intervals Doc Cox jumps out from behind a guard tower singing The Sun Has Got His Hat On.
Emergency ITV puppetry. The range of Barbara Lott. Guyler & Parasite. Ginger Rogers speaking in tongues. These and further weighty topics considered within. open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
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This afternoon's viewing is Alan Bennett's play about how Larry David wrote his Seinfeld scripts in a cork-lined study - 102 Boulevard Assman.
Why do politicians and journalists always miss out the definite article when referring to conferences? Are they saying it's their Notting Hill Carnival? Or are they instinctively lapsing into a Harold Wilson impression?
The first edition's out! And to prove the random nature of this endeavour, we open... in the middle of an ITV strike. Well done everyone. open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
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"It's the SEO rag, the SEO rag/If you don't mention Taylor Swift, your metrics will drag..."
What's your "forever sorry"? Mine's the one where they're all in the library trying to find a buried golden rabbit and Terry's sister from Likely Lads is in it and Timothy gets shepherd's pie all down him.
First of these arrives tomorrow morning. Excitement uncontainable! historyoftv.substack.com
Skimming the TV schedules for this week in the rapidly receding past. Click to read The Year of Listing Dangerously, by Phil Norman, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
Following Ludwig, I watched an episode of Jonathan Creek for some comedy-puzzling-detective comparison. It was like medical strength cocaine after a year of eating dandruff.