Rocky Horror Picture Show

Posted January 20, 2020 - No Comment

You don’t have to be Brad or Janet to spend the night at the Oakley Court where Rocky Horror was filmed!

Unfortunately, I’m not sure the owners of the Oakley Court Luxury Hotel in Bray, England can guarantee there is anything on the slab to see (if you come up to the lab, that is) or that you’ll learn to do the Time Warp but you can now stay in the old English manor where a number […]

Posted October 15, 2016 - No Comment

Stephen Merchant’s Crystal Maze special will ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ Sunday on Channel 4!

After 21 long years, the classic ’90s show The Crystal Maze will return Sunday night at 9p on Channel 4 with a one-off special to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer. The joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 raises monies to accelerate new cancer treatments to UK patients and save more lives, more […]

Posted September 21, 2016 - No Comment

At 41, ‘Fawlty Towers’ is still the greatest sitcom of all-time

September 19, 1975 — a day that will live on in history as the day one of the most brilliant situation comedies of all-time debuted on the BBC. Born out of a seemingly uneventful trip to the Torquay Gleneagles Hotel by the original members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers is comedy greatness that has not seen its […]

Posted June 11, 2015 - No Comment

The greatness of ‘The Crystal Maze’ is set to return….sort of.

The Crystal Maze, one of the most brilliant game shows of all time is set for a return…sort of. The original series, which ran on Channel 4 from 1990-1995 and starred Richard O’Brien of Rocky Horror Picture Show fame, is making a comeback. Sadly, looking at the official Crystal Maze website, you get the sense […]

Posted May 22, 2015 - No Comment

It worked for the Monty Python’s Holy Grail, why not Shaun of the Dead?

Monty Python‘s first foray into film was a compilation of sketches from their first two television series called And Now For Something Completely Different. While Monty Python and the Holy Grail was considered the comedy troupe’s first “proper” film, it was immediately hailed as comic genius and achieved widespread success both from a critical and audience standpoint.It still lives on […]

Posted October 31, 2010 - No Comment

Happy Halloween – British style! from Tellyspotting

In late September of 1975, English writer/actor, Richard O’Brien, gave the world the greatest cult film of all time, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Starring fellow Brit, Tim Curry, along with the great Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon and Dallas-born, Meat Loaf, I remember seeing this while working at a rock radio station in Austin years […]