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A few weeks ago, I found myself comparing BBC Two’s Industry to a show that came before it. Not Succession. Or This Life (actually, I compared it to that, too). Instead, I compared it to Our Friends in the North.
Our Friends in the North has just turned 25. And, in places, it shows. The look of it – especially the wigs and the old-age makeup – is even more distracting than it was the first time around. Looking at the cast from the distance of a quarter of a century is similarly odd. Many of them have become global superstars in the intervening years, and taken on fixed celebrity personas, that at times it feels as if the only sensible way to watch Our Friends in the North is through a baby monitor.
Our Friends In The North: It s 25 years since the TV classic set on Tyneside first aired
Our Friends In The North, an epic drama following the lives of four North East friends across three decades, was first broadcast on TV on January 15, 1996
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Jim Magilton and Alun Armstrong missed training at Town today, Armstrong with a neck injury while Magilton has a hamstring problem. Mark Venus is also undergoing treatment for a painful knee problem.
Town 1-0 Birmingham Wednesday, 10th Jan 2001 00:31
Town take a 1-0 victory to St Andrew s in two weeks time. A penalty just before half-time from Marcus Stewart saw Town gain victory, but perhaps more important was the cleansheet kept by Richard Wright and his defence.
Birmingham came with their usual physical, defensive approach, but most fans who were at Portman Road will probably most remember the contribution of referee Clive Wilkes who was as pedantic as they get and who made so many poor decisions that at one stage the whistle would blown and fans would know neither which way the freekick was going or what it was for.
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