At the start the sitcom was a compelling comment on male insecurity, but it soon descended into cartoonish plotlinesThe 1990s were an innocent time. Tony Blair was a god, Donald Trump was a joke and the world felt hopeful. It really did seem as though things could only get better. In 1992, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama went so far as to publish a book called The End of History and the Last Man arguing that the triumph of liberal democracy marked a new age of stable government and sunlit uplands. The only real worry was whether you preferred Blur or Oasis. So it was perhaps inevitable that into this comfortable stupor popped Gary Sparrow, a time-travelling bigamist TV repair engineer from Cricklewood.Gary, played by the affable Nicholas Lyndhurst, was the protagonist of Goodnight Sweetheart, one of the most successful sitcoms of that halcyon decade. In it, Gary is a man behaving boringly who is unsure about his role in this confusing modern world where women like his wife Yvonne have the temerity to study psychology instead of cook his dinner. Luckily, he discovers that he can leave this hellish peace and equality behind and travel back to the more exciting East End of the early 40s, where men were men and innocent people died by the thousand. He then does what any of us would do if we’d just discovered the secret of time travel, and shags the first person he sees. This person is Phoebe, a pub landlord’s daughter, who becomes Gary’s other wife. And so begins his... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-07-01 12:00:23 UTC ]
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Neil Gaiman will executive produce a new television series based on author Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-18 19:21:19 UTC ]
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Just as sure as some big sloppy salmon is going to Augustus Gloop that Fish Tube of Internet renown, so too shall TV viewers, or at least the ones who still watch the commercials, age out of the upper reaches of the demo. Quantitative changes rather quickly become qualitative; differences in... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-08-15 16:37:58 UTC ]
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BHP Comics has signed with Curtis Brown for the agency to represent the indie publisher's film and TV rights. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-13 01:17:45 UTC ]
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Trapeze has pre-empted a non-fiction tie-in for new ITV Jane Austen drama "Sanditon", alongside a novelised version of the show. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 09:12:47 UTC ]
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Allie Reynolds’ sought after thriller Shiver (Headline) has been snapped up by Firebird Pictures for adaptation into a TV series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-09 13:20:31 UTC ]
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An author looks back on “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” a book series that terrified him as a child and inspired him as an adult. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-08-07 14:00:06 UTC ]
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Latest series of the US hit show will recount the former White House intern’s affair with the then president that led to his impeachment in 1998Monica Lewinsky is among the producers on a new series of American Crime Story focusing on the Bill Clinton sex scandal.Titled Impeachment: American... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-07 11:59:39 UTC ]
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Christi Daugherty’s YA thriller series Night School (Little, Brown) has been optioned for TV by the Intellectual Property Group. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-05 15:06:18 UTC ]
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Notice more TV ads lately? You’re not imagining it. The amount of commercial time on cable TV keeps increasing as networks try to make up for shrinking audiences by stuffing more ads into every hour of television. That’s despite years of promises to cut back on ads. Last quarter, commercial... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-08-02 17:18:39 UTC ]
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James Gould-Bourn’s debut novel Keeping Mum (Trapeze) has been optioned for a TV series by triple Emmy-winners Lime Pictures. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-31 04:13:19 UTC ]
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In “All the Wrong Moves,” Sasha Chapin comedically revisits an obsession that took him to some strange places. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-30 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has struck a deal with The Trade Desk and Dataxu, two sources of online advertising, to deliver commercials to Fire TV. On Friday, Amazon announced the new arrangement developed for media companies that stream video on Fire TV. The video publishers can now set up what are known as... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-27 00:05:42 UTC ]
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During the past decade, Marvel and DC have created more than 20 TV shows featuring their superheroes and villains, but DC Universe's upcoming Harley Quinn series has something that none of those others does: lots and lots of F-bombs. The animated series, coming this fall to the DC Universe SVOD... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-07-23 18:14:43 UTC ]
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This week we're loaded with new stuff to watch on streaming, including Katee Sackhoff in a new non-Battlestar Galactica science fiction series, Another Life. Also new on Netflix this week is The Great Hack, a documentary focusing on the Cambridge Ana... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-07-23 02:28:00 UTC ]
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Helen Monks Takhar’s debut thriller about a millennial ‘snowflake’ intern pitted against an older editor, Precious You (HQ), is to be turned into a TV show. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 15:41:19 UTC ]
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Books by Fiona Barton, Steve Cavanagh and Elly Griffiths are among the winners of this year’s Dead Good Reader Awards for crime and thriller novels. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 02:40:27 UTC ]
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Three months ago, Tiger Woods clawed out his first major championship win in 11 years, and in so doing, seemed to have put an end to a decade marked by frustration, failure and grievous injury. His triumph in Augusta was an assurance that more Sunday victories would come, and in defying the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-19 19:26:04 UTC ]
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The history of television ratings is of great interest to me because--to quote Maya Angelou--"if you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going." Market research firm The Nielsen Company, founded in 1923, is perhaps best known for its ubiquitous television ratings, but... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-07-18 16:04:09 UTC ]
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On this day in 1901, Dame Barbara Cartland was born. She lived to 98, and in that time wrote 723 novels (mostly romance), which sold more than 750 million copies combined. She is the Guinness World Record-holder for most books published in a single year (191), and that’s honestly not even the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-09 19:52:49 UTC ]
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Sophie Jai's debut novel Wild Fires was selected out of 200 entries to win The Borough Press and The Good Literary Agency open submission. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 18:07:57 UTC ]
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