Britcom Goes To The Movies

Finding funny stuff on ITV since the turn of the century has been an arduous task. So it was quite the surprise to the 19-year-old Rob and Guy that late night on a Wednesday, one of the new darlings of British comedy, Rob Brydon, could be found as alter ego Peter De Lane performing fake director’s commentary on such classic Granada TV shows as Flambards, Only When I Laugh, and Mr and Mrs! As well as, for some reason, the classic US western TV show Bonanza, for which Brydon’s production company owned the rights to 32 episodes. This is a forgotten Brydon Classic. Shortly after the success of Marion and Geoff and Human Remains, the BBC turned down the opportunity for Brydon’s latest venture with collaborator Paul Duddridge, so their loss was Granada’s gain, and it would serve the dual purpose of giving ITV a comedy vehicle with the man everyone wanted a piece of as well as reminding audiences of some of their back catalogue.
So for our second Rob Brydon-related round table episode, we’ve enlisted the help of two of our favourite former guests to make up a classic De Lane Four. Alison Dennison and Nina Buckley returned to discuss their love (in one case) and disdain (in the other) for a show that neither had previously remembered.
Join the four of us for a deep dive into the world of Peter De Lane, Denny Hall and Lord Cheggers of Oddbins, and we’ll also discuss our favourite real-life director's commentaries and lots more to boot.
Thanks as always to our payingest Patreon, Andrew Greenwood!
Eurovision 1977 - Stewart Morris Talkback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTgCLfYdRo4
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Quentin Tarantino director’s commentary on Spaced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWOQH76BZbQ
Mike Scully calls John Schwartzwelder on the Simpsons commentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAWE0Kjn8ac&t=1s
Director’s Commentary - The Duchess of Duke Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXVB_tW_KXQ
Director’s Commentary - Flambards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Df03uATMM
Grace Jones at the Golden Jubilee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIicwZrkEhY&list=RDkIicwZrkEhY&start_radio=1
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand De Burgos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v37TG6uG3c

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To round off our BritPop Goes to the Movies mini-series, we jump to 2006, a simpler time when fledgling British pop-rockers McFly and their management could force themselves on an unsuspecting Hollywood. Lindsay Lohan (at the height of her fame) and Chris Pine (who Rob would argue is the best of the Chrises) on the come-up, star in an all-American, by-the-numbers romcom, which was sold in this country largely based on the already successful McFly's appearance. However, in America, Tom, Dougie, Harry and Danny were complete unknowns, and this was their only shot to crack the US market.
This film differs in many ways from the previous two in the series, not least because it is a fully American production, but also because the band is very much the B-plot to a high-concept convolution in which Lohan and Pine continue to switch luck and status. There's still plenty of British pop music in it, though. Lots of McFly tracks but a lot of repetition of Five Colours in Her Hair.
Joining Guy and Rob is fellow Film Stories Podcast Network host Dev Elson of Chucky Vision and At The Movies in the Noughties. He did more than his fair share of superfluous research by listening to every McFly album. Is this film as bad as we are making it sound, though? Well, you’ll just have to finish the trilogy to find out.
Five Colours In Her Hair - McFly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h76uVRSJ5bc
Obviously - McFly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiyF3K7hFqM
Harry Judd Wins Strictly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_s2RHVBdY
Chris Pine in Smokin' Aces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tGV96ceBM&t=148s
Chris Pine - The Otley Run
https://x.com/CapitalOfficial/status/1641409178387324934
Just My Luck Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClDQ4SLDDOw
Just My Luck - Central Park Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZz6l8MCFFY

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Episode two of BritPOP Goes to the Movies sees Guy and Rob joined by Catrin Lowe to discuss Spice World: The Movie. Kim Fuller, brother of the mogul behind the Spice Girls, Simon Fuller, wanted to make a genuine homage to our previous film A Hard Day's Night, and to do that he wanted to make this just as cynical and rich with meta-textual, self-referential craziness. Cramming in celebrity cameos (too many for his script editor) and musical set-pieces.
Spice World certainly had that and a whole lot more. The film was put in motion before the five-piece had properly blown up worldwide, but by the time shooting had wrapped, they were truly a worldwide sensation. This movie broke all kinds of box-office records; despite being critically panned, it now sits as the most financially successful film about a real pop group ever.
To believe the critics' initial reaction would do this subversive, bonkers and surprisingly well-acted film a disservice. Yes, there's the odd "what the hell were you thinking?!" moment, but for every Michael Barrymore and Gary Glitter (yes, Gary Glitter!) there's an Alan Cumming and Bob Hoskins.
Sit back and listen to the gang wax lyrical and get all nostalgic about the era of Spice. With clear dividing lines about what the Spice Girls meant to their teenage girl and teenage boy fan clubs! There's even a little inside scoop from a familiar voice who appeared in the movie. So Stop! Say you’ll be there with us for a cracking episode that hopefully you won’t find Too Much…
…..Goodbye!
Spice Girls - Wannabe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ
Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ro0FW9Qt-4
Spice Girls - Too Much on Top of the Pops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iyQBxSbvqg
Spice World - Teaser Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Ne8oBpQQY
Spice World - American Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmSBtOHzGPM
Spice World Aliens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzxxc5KnBOE
Spice World - Boy in coma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_8fYanJk88
Peter Sissons on Ann Robinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PuKPiTT_4
Geri - A Film By Molly Dineen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8bnx0YcFBo
Spice World - Gary Glitter deleted scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYRHoQP75-g
Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbAWc_pQDjk
All Spice Girls Adverts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw54uEniaZg
Waynes World - Sponsor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjB6r-HDDI0

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As we eagerly await Series Seven in the autumn, how about treating ourselves to a mini-series during the bank holiday? What could be more fun than watching British pop groups trying to crack the movies?
In our new mini-series, BritPop Goes To The Movies, Rob and Guy will be diving into exactly that over the next three days!
We kick off our series with a huge first episode, featuring a returning friend of the show. Tyler Adams from Goon Pod is back for his third appearance, ready to help us explore a film that truly changed everything. Who better to guide us through how a business-savvy soundtrack tie-in became a cinematic masterpiece?
Tyler helps us to start things off with A Hard Day’s Night. Originally commissioned by United Artists to get a Beatles soundtrack album, director Richard Lester and writer Alun Owen took a modest £189,000 budget and a tight schedule and turned it into something sharper, funnier, and more influential than anyone could have imagined. By moving away from the usual vehicles of Elvis and Cliff Richard, John, Paul, George, and Ringo really shine on screen, playing heightened versions of themselves. They are supported by a fantastic cast of British character actors, including Wilfred Bramble, Victor Spinetti, and Norman Rossington, who add a sharp edge to the film’s satire on age, class, and authority.
Come along with us as we get stuck into Beatlemania and the birth of the modern music video as we explore A Hard Day’s Night!
Running, Jumping, Standing Still film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScwV_yIGZ5Y
It’s Trad Dad (trailer) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk8ad0u0URw
A Hard Days Night Press Conference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9VJ7GZYcWU
George Harrison funny scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QREeweMWTZk

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Is the art of parody the sole reserve of Americans? Well, us Brits have had a few jolly good cracks at it. Most recently, Fackham Hall. The star-studded Downton Abbey send-up from 2025, written by the Dawson brothers (one of whom is an Inman) and the Carr brothers (one of whom is the UK’s biggest stand-up of the 21st century).
To round off the sixth series of BritCom Goes to the Movies, Rob and Guy tackle their most recent film to date and have paired it with the other most valiant BritCom ZAZ-style attempt, A Touch of Cloth. The gloriously silly spoof of the police procedural dramas of the BBC and ITV. A programme that started life in creator Charlie Brooker’s spoof TV listings website TV Go Home.
Series six has had our most guests ever, so it's only right to finish it with the original lineup. For this one, Guy and Rob go it alone. There’s also the matter of the Series Six quiz champion to decide, as scores are all level at 24-24 going into this episode. Join us for the last in the series at Fackham Hall!
TV Go Home
http://www.ntk.net/tvgohome/190399.html
A Touch of Cloth - It was 1996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrOnQG-ZYyM
A Touch of Cloth - I cam As Soon As I Heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4RKGels8Wo&pp=ygUQYSB0b3VjaCBvZiBjbG90aA%3D%3D&pbjreload=102
Fackham Hall - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWrZCkL8Kqs
Fackham Hall - Jimmy Carr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XhP-mmIPDY

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