BlammoFollowing on from my big info-dump of the gags and whatnot featured in RT listings of Not The Nine O’Clock News, here’s another example of comedians larking about in the same publication. The Young Ones ran for twelve episodes from 1982 to 1984, and unlike NTNOCN, it didn’t take long Continue Reading
Some years ago I found the following article on the website of The Camden New Journal, a local London newspaper. What I read struck me as both haunting and unsettling – it describes a disturbing attack carried out by a troubled woman, suffering an unexplained trauma that almost led to Continue Reading
Originally published on my personal blog in October 2024. This is an annotated copy-paste archiving of the original TV listings for Not The Nine O’Clock News, as harvested from the BBC Genome which in turn came from the Radio Times. The bulk of the listings were an example of something Continue Reading
Originally posted on Letterboxd. Watched at a screening that took place on 1st November 2024 – this review was edited slightly on the 19th. “Only shown at live events, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes is made from unseen sketches and outtakes from seminal British TV series Brass Eye.” I’m Continue Reading
“5.20 MURUN BUCHSTANSANGUR. Original animated series featuring a smelly, disgusting, but irresistible creature that lives in a crack beneath the kitchen cupboard.” If you know what “Murun Buchstansangur” is at all, you know that it’s a series of five minute cartoons made between 1982 and 1988 for Channel 4 in Continue Reading
This bit of web hosting I set up earlier this year is now the location for my new blog. Here I’ll be writing on the definitive 20th Century medium, which now crawls choking into the 21st – the drug of the nation itself… (Another possible title for this blog – Continue Reading
