Now that John Humphrys has called it a day, I’ll never get the chance to be quizzed by him on Mastermind.
Pity. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve wondered what my specialist subject would be. Motown B-sides of the 1960s, maybe. The lyrics of Warren Zevon.
Minder, 1979-1994. The inside story of the great Transport and General Workers’ Union ballot rigging scandal, 1985.
As chairman of the Useless Information Society, a distinguished position I inherited from the late Keith Waterhouse, I am a veritable repository of worthless trivia.
For instance, my encyclopaedic knowledge of old British television series is fairly extensive, as regular readers can attest.
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A 2009 photograph of Ska band the Specials, (from left) Lynval Golding, Terry Hall and John Bradbury. “We were doing something that wasn’t in London. It was a sense of pride in where we were.’ Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian
A 2009 photograph of Ska band the Specials, (from left) Lynval Golding, Terry Hall and John Bradbury. “We were doing something that wasn’t in London. It was a sense of pride in where we were.’ Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian
The 50 Best TV Shows That Were Canceled Too Soon
By Kate Mulligan, Stacker News
On 1/19/21 at 8:00 PM EST
All good things must come to an end, an expression particularly apt when it comes to television shows. Not every series can be
The Simpsons, and run from what seems like the beginning of time until well after we re all in the ground. The never-aging family from Springfield aside, most TV shows find themselves canceled at one point or another. Whether it be declining ratings, a story getting too hard to maintain, or off-screen unscripted drama, even good televisions shows meet the axe.