Thursday, 29 November 2012

Proof Read all about it – When the local press goes wrong... My tale of when the local press goes wrong

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n the past couple of months apart this blog I have also been writing for my local daily newspaper, the Portsmouth News in their weekend te...
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Sunday, 25 November 2012

David Croft – The Man who made Britain laugh...

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At one put and another, it is fair to say that most people have come across a certain type of person in their lives, whether that be during ...
Friday, 16 November 2012

Chuck Barris - Truth, Stranger than Fiction and Fiction, Stranger than Truth

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The name Chuck Barris may not mean much to people in Britain and who he actually is, but for nearly a decade in American television, he wa...
Sunday, 11 November 2012

"Hello there Mrs S.." - Marshall, Renwick and End of Part One

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So when was it that television started to take itself so seriously? I can understand with such difficult and serious subjects to contend wit...
Monday, 5 November 2012

"And its Bob's Full House tonight as well.." - Why Bob Monkhouse and Bingo on the Beeb is still beloved after all these years...

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Over the past couple of weeks, Challenge has started to repeat one of seminal gameshows to be broadcast on television in the United Kingdom,...
Saturday, 27 October 2012

"After the count down to a new channel ends.. A new countdown begins..." Channel Four at 30

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So Channel Four is thirty, looking at its midriff pinching it and wondering why it has got larger in the past couple of years, granted there...
Monday, 22 October 2012

"Thank you for watching.. Ceefax 1974-2012" Its influence and its legacy..

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So there we have it then.. Pages from Ceefax has bowed in the UK after 38 years on the air, but without sounding Monty Python-ish but 'W...