The hilarious sketch-based show which lampooned the new satellite television companies which had begun to operate in the UK! Each week a different aspect of 'cheap' television production and broadcasting provided the 'theme' for the sketches in the programme; no target was left untouched! Episodes Comprise: 1. KY Tellython 2. God Alone Knows 3. Good Morning Calais 4. Crisis Special 5. Speak For Yourself 6. Talking Head
That Deadwood Feeling is a blackly comic film noir a tale of three guys who dream of making a movie of becoming players in the game of life. What could be simpler? Michael (Dexter Fletcher Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Hotel Babylon) has the enthusiasm Jack (Jack Davenport Pirates of the Caribbean) has the intellect and Frank (Demetri Goritsas The Bourne Identity) - well Frank has the answer to everything. The only minor obstacle is that they haven't a single original idea between them until out of the shadows comes this weird actor guy (Richard Stanley dir. Hardware Dust Devil) who offers them his life story on a plate. Off they set on a journey of optimism exploitation denial dreams both good and bad - and ultimately death. Throughout they're offered words of worldly wisdom by Larry (David Soul Starsky and Hutch) a seen-it-all done-it-all big shot - that's if you believe his own publicity. Watching over the unfolding story is an unnamed character (Angus Deayton) who seems to know everything and how it's all meant to be. But who the hell is he? What''s his game? And what''s his relationship to the mysterious Girl in the Red Dress (Ivana Horvat)?
Now close to death Queen Mary I (Kathy Burke) steps up her policy of Protestant repression. Even Princess Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) her younger sister and her heir apparent is in grave danger but Mary's last ditch to execute her for treason fails. Within days Mary is dead and Elizabeth is crowned Queen of England but with enemies and rebellion continuing in her own council she is advised to hit back. She retaliated in a counter-coup of immense ferocity wiping out all opposition to her leadership. Her throne is finally secure.
The final series of this brilliant comedy satire saw the return of the satellite TV station with all-too-many Mikes and Annas and a selection of low-budget tragically-presented slightly familiar shows. The KYTV team was brimming with comedy talent: Angus Deayton was great as Mike Channel the station's ""imploding"" personality; Geoffrey Perkins played the smarmy Mike Flex; Michael Fenton Stevens was the inept Martin Brown and Helen Atkinson Wood splendidly irritated as the Anneka Rice-like Anna Daptor - these performances were capped by Philip Pope's brilliantly parodied pop hits. The third series produced many of the show's memorable moments including a documentary about the making of the play David Chizzlenut (loosely based on an idea by Charles Dickens); a journey back to the sexciting Sixties with the help of Kenneth Wolstenholme and the Fabulous Fourpenny Ones; Fly on the Walls where the team goes to Gravesend to live with an ordinary family (the Walls) for a year and the memorable holiday parody Get Away with You! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Making Of David Chizzlenut 2. Those Sexciting '60's 3. Fly On The Walls 4. 2000 'n' Whither? 5. Hot Crimes 6. Get Away With You
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