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>>> Items of interest to British media fans and Seattle-area residents,
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>>> and whatever else I feel like spewing about. You have been warned.
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Okay, so these messages _still_ have huge headers. But I've got all the
documentation I need to set this up as a "real" mailing list. Now I just
need to find the time to read it.
Speaking of the list itself, I just added the 99th subscriber. Triple
digits here we come!
On tap this time:
Quick news items
Recipients of the 1995 British Comedy Awards
A reader requests...
Upcoming SotRT events
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Subject: Quick news items
Sound bites:
The "Doctor Who" movie is still on schedule to air in May. Filming
is in Vancouver.
If you could receive Radio 2, you could be listening to "The Ghosts
of N Space", a Doctor Who story starring Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth
Sladen, and Nicholas Courtney (and written by Barry Letts).
If you could receive Radio 3, you could listen to John Zorn
presenting the music of Carl Stalling. (It airs Sunday, 2/18, at
17:45.) I have seen it described as "an absolute corker".
There will be no new episodes of "The Larry Sanders Show" in 1996.
Garry Shandling is taking some time off.
Local news:
The verdict is in on the "EastEnders" / "Doctor Who" / "Blake's 7"
marathons on KBTC. The good news is that "Dr. Who" and "Blake's 7"
brought in $15,700 (which is enough to support six months of each
programme). The bad news is that "EastEnders" brought in only $4600
(apparently many of the pledges "bounced"). It costs $15,000/year,
so if the numbers are equally disappointing in July, "EastEnders"
may not be long for this area.
Festival Hong Kong at the Varsity presents two by Tsui Hark on
February 15. "Green Snake" is gorgeous (even if you ignore Joey
Wong and Maggie Cheung), and "Love in the Time of Twilight" is, um,
I don't know, because I haven't seen it yet. Call 632-3131 for info.
RadCon 2 is this coming weekend in the metropolitan Pasco area.
Call 509-943-0713 for more info.
Miscellany:
In the recently-broadcast new "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" episode
"Explode" contained a parody of the BBC1 station ID. It also has a
bit where a bored continuity announcer reads lamely-written
announcements while the earth spins. The voice is that of BBC radio
DJ John Peel.
The Sunday Times now has a web site. It's faster and cheaper than
an overseas subscription. Check out "http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/"
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Subject: Recipients of the 1995 British Comedy Awards
The following is extracted from "Britcomedy Digest".
From: Britcomedy Digest
The following are the nominations and winners for each of the 23 awards.^
A * appears next to the recipient of the award.
The nominations were made by TV and film companies, radio stations, and
theatre and comedy club managements throughout in the United Kingdom. The
judges consisted of members of The Writer's Guild of Great Britain and a
jury of top executives for all of the comedy fields represented.
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Top TV Comedy Actor:
* Martin Clunes (Men Behaving Badly)
Richard Wilson (One Foot in the Grave)
Robert Daws (Outside Edge)
Top BBC Entertainment Presenter:
* Noel Edmonds (Noel Edmonds' House Party)
Jim Davidson (Jim Davidson's Generation Game)
Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show)
Best Female Comedy Performer:
* Victoria Wood (Live in Your Own Home)
Jo Brand (Jo Brand: Through the Christmas Cakehole)
Caroline Hook (The Mrs. Merton Show)
Best ITV Entertainment Presenter:
* Michael Barrymore (Barrymore)
Cilla Black (Blind Date)
Clive James (The Clive James Show)
Top Television Comedy Actress:
* Caroline Quenton (Men Behaving Badly)
Annette Crosby (One Foot in the Grave)
Josie Lawrence (Outside Edge)
Best Radio Comedy:
* I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Harry Hill's Fruit Corner
People Like Us
Top Channel 4 Entertainment Presenter:
* Chris Evans (Don't Forget Your Toothbrush)
Antoine de Caunes/Jean-Paul Gaultier (Eurotrash)
Gaby Roslin (The Big Breakfast)
Best BBC Sitcom:
* One Foot in the Grave
Absolutely Fabulous
Men Behaving Badly
Lifetime Achievement Award:
* Bob Monkhouse
Best Entertainment Series:
* Don't Forget Your Toothbrush
Barrymore
The Fantasy Football League
Best Television Comedy/Drama:
* Preston Front
Eleven Men Against Eleven
Outside Edge
Top Television Personality:
* Jack Dee
Billy Connolly
Lee Evans
Best ITV Sitcom:
* Is It Legal?
Surgical Spirit
Time after Time
Writer's Guild Award for Top Television Comedy Writer:
* Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton
Best Television Comedy Newcomer:
* Ardal O'Hanlon (Father Ted)
Harry Hill (Fruit Stand)
A woman from "Vicar of Dibley"+
Best Television Comedy Film:
* Bullets Over Broadway
Pulp Fiction
Muriel's Wedding
Best Comedy:
* Rory Bremner... Who Else?
Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge
The Mrs. Merton Show
Best Channel 4 Sitcom:
* Drop the Dead Donkey
Father Ted
Desmond's
Posthumous Award for British Comedy:
* Peter Cook
Best Stand-Up Comedian:
* Jo Brand
Alan Davies
Bob Monkhouse
Best New Television Comedy:
* Father Ted (Hat Trick Productions/Channel 4)
The World of Lee Evans (Granada TV/Channel 4)
Is it Legal? (Carlton UK TV)
Top Male Comedy Performer:
* John Bird and John Fortune (The Long Johns)
Steve Coogan (Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge)
Rory Bremner (Rory Bremner... Who Else?)
Lifetime Achievement in Variety:
* Bruce Forsyth
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+ Sorry.
Britcomedy Digest (ISSN 1077-6680) Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 by Melinda
Casino. Reproduction for personal and non-profit use is permitted only if
this copyright notice is retained. Any other reproduction is prohibited
without permission from the Editor.
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Subject: A reader requests...
The subject says it all. Rather than just say "I don't know", I thought
I'd let 99 people say "I don't know". But then, maybe someone _does_ know.
From: Charles Holtom
Hi, my name is Charlie and I received a copy of the Rusting Tardis
News. My e-mail address is a subtle clue to my nationality and my wife is
English. We are now in the USA and are missing several things which we
hope are not totally peculiar to the motherland. As you seem to be well
informed of British stuff availbility, I've got a couple of questions for
you, if you have a spare moment to answer them.
1. Has anyone over here ever found Mc.Vities chocolate coated digestive
biscuits for sale?
2. Is it possible to get BBC1, BBC2, ITV and CH4 by satelite?
3. Anywhere I can play squash in the Lynnwood/Everett area.
Best regards, Charlie.
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Subject: Upcoming SotRT events
Currently planned for the next Rusting Tardis video night (February 14), at
Round Table Pizza, 5111 25th Ave. NE (in Seattle):
Goodnight Sweetheart: Series 2, episode 7
Fist of Fun: Episode 3
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer (you may not know these two by
name, but you may have seen them in last year's "Comic Relief"
special and in the Fry-and-Laurie-hosted "A Christmas Night with
the Stars")
An Evening with Gary Lineker (starring Paul Merton, Caroline
Quentin (Paul's wife), and Martin Clunes)
Coming soon: The latest season of "A Bit of Fry and Laurie".
The next social is Tuesday February 20, at China First, 1121 NE 45th St.
(in Seattle).
See you on Wednesday.
"The alien ship landed and the things emerged...
They were about six feet tall, and at a rough
classification could have been described as
mammalian bipeds. Their forelimbs terminated in
digital extremities; they possessed primary optical
organs; and the respiratory orifice was subdivided.
The oral orifice was provided with an articulated
mandible at its lower extremity, and to sum up -
they bore a striking resemblance to _homo sapiens_.
--"Hand of Doom", Robert Lionel Fanthorpe
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