Stuart Millard

Millard's Halloween Fright Bag III

When Discussion Shows Went Spooky

The After School Hauntology of Dramarama

Beasts, Hammer House of Horror, Tales of the Unexpected, Supernatural, Dead of Night; at one point, our nation's televisions were so packed with sinister, twist-in-the-tale anthology shows that even chi...

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

I usually save these first of the month pictures for social media, but it seems a shame to waste this one if you're not following me on there. This month's £3 tier is entirely Halloween themed, and I'd rate both the videos (51 mins in total) up there with my very best. The finale to this year's Fright Bag is the most ludicrous thing I've ever d...

Magic Micro Mission: Gaming TV's Future Perfect

The Accursed 90s: Craig Charles's Funky Bunker

Bring Me Sunshine

It's now forty years since we lost Eric Morecambe; a comedian so named after his excitable nature during BBC bukkake parties (don't Google that at work). Seven months after his death, Thames Television aired a star-packed tribute titled 2024-09-04 19:41:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Forgotten Kids Shows: The Old Man, the Door and the Swine

G's, Gurus and Bonus Points: The Time-Wasting of Gamezville

Shitcoms – Andy Capp

Since the MCU took comics mainstream, in the mad rush to bring every forgotten minor character to screen, one sub-genre got completely ignored; the syndicated newspaper strip. Where Americans were treated to Peanuts, Nancy...

Saturday Stayback: When Tiswas Went to the Pub

The Great Egg Race: We Used to Make Stuff

Race to the Middle: Lenny Henry's True Identity

As there's a million humorous commentators doing the bad movie thing, other than Carry On Emmanuelle, I usually stick to stinky telev...

VHS:WTF Unlucky Dip II

Owt Good On Mam? – 1994 Tech Special

The Cannon and Ball Gospel Show

My favourite and oft-repeated piece of trivia regards the Born Again status of one Syd Little, which occurred backstage of a Blackpool theatre in 1996, during bible study in Bobby Ball's dressing room. Naturally, Tommy was there, along wit...

GamesMaster Does Wrestling

Record Breakers: Roy Beats World

Bring Your Husband To Heel

     This is rare for me, a jaunt into television of the 21st century. But it's a pungent era, 2005; a place both three weeks ago and almost twenty years behind us. The mid-noughties were the bully's e...

The Big Breakfast: Up The Aisle

Watch Out, OJ's About! – Anatomy of a Fumbled Comeback

Owt Good On, Mam? – Rolf and Raquel

In trying to theme these Owt Good On, Mams somewhat, we've reached a pair of specials which tie together only by sharing an identical title format – the first name of their star. Though Rolf! appears on none of the involved's ...

Before Gulf Aid, There Was... Ferry Aid

Scavengers AKA Aliens: The Game Show?

Euro Disney's Grand Opening

For a certain generation, there was no more exotic promised land than that of the theme park. Alton Towers, The American Adventure, and of course the king, Disneyland/Disney World. The mouse parks were so embedded in popular culture that a series of ads...

We Need to Talk About Keith

Interceptor

The Mike Reid Show

The Mike Reid Show is basically what Tara Palmer-Tomkinson thought she was walking into on her sadly infamous appearance on The Frank Skinner Show, and not, as she had believed, The Frank Butcher Show. The personas of...

This Is Your Life: Everything is Connected

Bad Influence