When I started the Patreon in 2018 and begun listing things I wanted to cover, this series was top three, with one particular image seered into my brain as the most broken anyone has ever been by reality television; a statement I believe still holds tru...
2024-01-08 22:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Some extra house-cleaning business for the end of year, as this is the last post of 2023:
- Shamefully, I have to apologise for the audio quality again. Maybe it's not as bad as it seems to me, but I think what's happened here is a combination of the old mic dying and my hearing taking ages to come back properly after Covid, which...
2023-12-22 22:31:42 +0000 UTC View Post
For me, the phrase 'New Year's Eve television' sparks memories of Jools Holland, an enormous Sir Captain Tom looming out of the sky, and watching as Claudia Schiffer – introduced by Clive James as the World's Most Beautiful Woman – is described by m...
2023-12-04 22:21:47 +0000 UTC View Post
In the pantheon of British puppets, wretched Orville aside, Roland Rat's the one I've got the least affection for, with an entire routine consisting of “I'm a world famous superstar, yeeeeah!” Created by the man who does the voice and stick...
2023-11-03 22:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's that other hayfevery voiceover, apologies for the raspiness.
2023-10-14 21:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Since last we sampled Walker, Texas Ranger, it's become another series, along with McGyver and 2023-10-04 21:08:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Build-up to the coming millennium was a wild time, with round-number enthusiasts stockpiling for the end of everything. Who knew what awaited us, chugging alcopops in our JNCO jeans as the clock struck midnight? Perhaps a plane falling through the conse...
2023-09-04 21:10:58 +0000 UTC View Post
For every junior-aged kid, there's something which looms overhead like a coming storm. Someday, unavoidably, you'll be starting Big School; a bigger building filled with bigger boys. Having fit that demographic myself in the eighties, my expectation was...
2023-08-05 21:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post
On sheer brand recognition, The Brady Bunch is one of history's most culturally significant sitcoms; at least in its infinitely parodied opening titles, where the cast's boxed heads look each other up and down against a clear blue background. A...
2023-07-06 21:36:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Regular readers know the people I'm most drawn to are those who decided they'd become a character, from which they never broke. Hulk Hogan. John McCririck. Dave Courtney. Late 90's culture was fascinated with gangland figures, due in part to the 60's re...
2023-06-16 22:09:14 +0000 UTC View PostAlright?
It felt weird not putting anything up for so long, so I wanted to post a quick note to thank you all for sticking around during Plague Month. The lighter schedule really allowed me to get back on track, now (mostly) recovered and raring to go.
Depending on when I recorded them, my voice is gonna be weird in videos for a bit ...
2023-06-03 19:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As you've probably seen me harping on about, a few weeks ago, I got laid up with a well-bad case of Covid, and couldn't breathe without coughing up my entire spine, much less take 10,000 words of notes about an old episode of Bill Oddie's Saturday Banan...
2023-04-24 12:37:48 +0000 UTC View Post
As alluded to at the bottom of the most recent post, Covid finally came for me, and good god, Whitty wasn't kidding. Never been so ill in my life. Every night I'm expecting to see Bobby Ball reaching his hand out from a white tunnel. I had planned to p...
2023-04-11 09:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm gonna level with you. I know it goes against everything it means to be British, but I am not a pub man. Never have been. Though it's social suicide to admit such a thing, I'm very much of the school which believes “Pay for a drink? There's per...
2023-04-08 19:51:46 +0000 UTC View Post
