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Shouting at the Telly
About this book
A host of comedians, writers and viewers, including Rebecca Front, Andrew Collins, Kevin Eldon, Emma Kennedy, Richard Herring, Jim Shelley and David Quantick share funny and heartfelt rants and raves on everything from soaps to sitcoms, sci-fi to reality shows, HBO to QVC.
All of TV is here: the age-old rift between BBC and ITV that tore families apart; the secret shame of crying at adverts; and those significant moments in life when television has made for an unforgettable backdrop. Richard Herring has a controversial new theory about
Goodnight Sweetheart, Boyd Hilton shares his all-time comedy top ten and Rebecca Front demolishes the clichés of news reading. They're joined by a list of fellow telly addicts with axes to grind, .
So, if you have ever rooted for the most offensive candidates in
The Apprentice or repeatedly corrected Supernanny Jo Frost's pronounciation of 'unacceptable' then this book will give you and your spleen many happy memories of the hours you've spent shouting at the telly.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: It’s Time to Put on Make-Up, It’s Time to Light the Lights …
- 1: ‘You Bitch!’ ‘You Slag!’: The Sensitive World of Soap
- 2: Sarah Beeny Thinks You’re a Twat: Presenters and Factual Programmes
- 3: I Lost It with Bod: Growing Up with Telly
- 4: Doing a Telly: The Dramatic Arts from The A-Team to Z-Cars
- 5: Electrickery: TV Invades Real Life
- 6: Chucklevision: The Serious World of Comedy
- 7: What are … feelings?: The Illogical World of Cult TV
- 8: Carnival of Monsters: Reality, But Not As We Know It
- 9: Surviving Kate Thornton: Reclaiming Nostalgia from TV Theme Nights
- You Have Been Reading
- Skip to the End: Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright