'Orrible
To understand the existence of 'Orrible, we need to recall the weird early 2000's national obsession with gangland criminals. This was the...
2019-09-14 07:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Stuart Millard posts
Coming Next to the $5 Tier
Wakehaven - a mystery in eight parts.
2019-09-12 08:12:56 +0000 UTC View PostI Was the Stan Lee of Sussex – Reappraising Fred Ace #1
Seeing as I spend my time on here tearing apart other people's bad old content, I figured before karma comes for my head, I'd better tip out the bones from my own closet.
2019-09-03 23:07:21 +0000 UTC
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The One Show
The opening titles to The One Show make way more sense with subtitles on.
2019-08-25 11:47:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Noel Tried to Crack America
Over the past year, Noel Edmonds has become the suspiciously-dark-bearded ghoul that hangs over my work. Though I worry my compulsive referen...
2019-08-25 08:24:35 +0000 UTC View PostCartoon Spinoffs - The Karate Kid
I cannot stress strongly enough how much I love The Karate Kid. Along with Ghostbusters, it's my all-time favourite film, and I w...
2019-08-15 08:10:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Accursed 90s: Don't Forget Your Toothbrush
When last we saw Chris Evans, ...
2019-08-05 08:38:17 +0000 UTC View PostSaturday Night Beadle
In his heyday, the name Jeremy Beadle was national shorthand – settle down – for exasperating situations; synonymous with life throwing you a r...
2019-07-26 08:51:15 +0000 UTC View PostTagteam
To save the suspense on whether Tagteam – self-styled as a single word – is any good, it's with a heavy heart I must report the bigges...
2019-07-16 08:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostCartoon Spinoffs - Mister T
It's hard to convey just how ridiculously famous Mr. T was in the eighties, and how fast it all happened. His breakout role of Clubber Lang in ...
2019-07-05 23:11:21 +0000 UTC View PostComing Next to the $5 Tier
Down in the trenches of a British comprehensive school in the mid-80s, it's every boy for himself. But it helps to have a friend.
Scramblehead – a story in four parts, coming soon.
2019-06-30 23:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Big Breakfast - First and Last
Having previously covered Noel's House Party, it was inevitable that I'd eventually tackle The Big Breakfast, which puts us at th...
2019-06-25 23:01:19 +0000 UTC View PostColonel Spokes
This is the only known footage of Colonel Spokes, also known as the Rumble Tumble Man, or Ernie Tattles. A familiar sight to motorists of West Sussex throughout the 1970s and '80s, local legend puts him as the only survivor of a terrible car...
2019-06-23 15:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Post: 2019 Beach Diaries #3
A group of giggling kids loudly ask Siri if Yoda's circumcised.
2019-06-22 18:38:47 +0000 UTC
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Great Moments in Pop Culture – Byker Grove Nukes the Fourth Wall
Long-running shows often get defined by their endings, good or bad, which retroactively colour the perception of a series as a whole, like The ...
2019-06-15 23:01:50 +0000 UTC View PostCome Back Mrs. Noah
Another of those series perennially sat on the worst-of lists, Come Back Mrs. Noah was a Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft joint; the pairing t...
2019-06-05 23:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostCharlie and Me trailer
If you've been following my work for a while, you'll know that my Charles Manson novel, Charlie and Me, was *the* big project for me, which took up years of my life, so I was pretty bummed when it virtually died on release at the end of 2017. At t...
2019-05-28 20:41:09 +0000 UTC View PostThat Time Heartbeat Did An Alien Abduction
Even today, ITV's Heartbeat is so bonded to its placement dead-centre of Sunday Night Dread, that on hearing its theme tune, I instinctive...
2019-05-26 23:08:16 +0000 UTC View PostCartoon Spinoffs - Rambo
Writing this latest piece about terrible cartoon spin-offs unwittingly dredged up a litany of embarrassing memories. Around the age of seven, I bec...
2019-05-16 23:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostIndex of Content
To save everyone scrolling back through dozens
2019-05-11 18:52:51 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Post: 2019 Beach Diaries #2
There's a man swimming in the sea. The sun's quite warm when it breaks the clouds, but the water looks cold. When he wades back onto shore, h...
2019-05-09 13:23:55 +0000 UTC View PostGreat Moments in Pop Culture – Ricky Gervais Has a Fight
One day, I turned on the telly, and watched Bob Mortimer beat Les Dennis in a boxing match. No, that's not a dream you've gotten stuck listening to...
2019-05-06 23:07:19 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Post: Occasional Beach Diaries 2019
I've been rooting around in a few old notebooks, looking for Beach Diaries scraps I never got around to posting. Here's a selection, and hopefully ...
2019-04-30 12:51:38 +0000 UTC View PostBeing Judas
On Good Friday of this year, the area's local churches got together to perform a public Walk of Witness through the high street, recreating the cap...
2019-04-26 23:04:12 +0000 UTC View PostBig Game
Contains spoilers for last night's Game of Thrones (Season 8, Episode 2)
2019-04-22 20:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostSlinger's Day
Since starting the Shitcoms series, I occasionally get suggestions tweeted at me, and Slinger's Day has come up more than once. I'd never ...
2019-04-17 07:47:20 +0000 UTC View PostChuck Norris Giving His All
I knocked up this quick highlight reel, because it's impossible to convey in print Chuck's sheer level of boredom and terrible diction.
2019-04-07 09:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostCartoon Spinoffs - Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos
For me, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos is the perfect Venn diagram intersection of dual fascinations, sitting in that sweet spot of 'carto...
2019-04-07 09:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostGreat Moments in Pop Culture – Mr. T Thanks His Mother
The WWE Hall of Fame sits at the start of Wrestlemania weekend, as the one evening a year when the carny-ass business that proudly rolls around in ...
2019-03-28 00:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post