I remember the buzz around Johnny Vegas at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1997. Everyone knew a star was being born â but a star of what, exactly? No one had ever seen anything quite like this overweight northern Englishman, screaming and sobbing at his audience, raging at lifeâs injustices â then breaking off for another bout at his potterâs wheel. Was this comedy, ceramics or a man on the verge of a breakdown?
But the oddity â that defiance of categories â couldnât sustain a career. A handful of years after becoming the first newcomer to be nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award, Vegas went mainstream as a man with a monkey sidekick in an ad campaign for the pay-TV service ITV Digital. People shouted âmoonkehâ (Lancashire accent not optional) at him in the street. He became â and remains â a well-loved household name, albeit for a brand of (hoarse, boozy) comedy that partly obscures what made him extraordinary in the f
From All Creatures to The Repair Shop: why British TV is soothing America s soul
They love our ‘crunchy gravel shows’, the ‘empathy’ of our plots, and anything with The Queen. How did Britain collectively ‘break America’?
28 April 2021 • 5:00am Low-stakes, calming television : American viewers can t get enough of British shows like All Creatures Great and Small
Credit: Matt Squire
When the Channel 5 reboot of All Creatures Great and Small was shown in the US earlier this year, it received almost universal critical acclaim. “In a TV universe where a dark tone and byzantine plotting are so often the default,” wrote Alan Sepinwall in a typical piece in Rolling Stone, “the empathy and simplicity of All Creatures feel genuinely radical.”
How Cayce s River Arts District emerged from the pandemic with a different look yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As someone who regretfully declined the offer of a Girlâs World Styling Head on numerous occasions throughout the 80s because I knew already the parlous state of my own artistic skills, and could not, would not see the bodiless beauty desecrated so, I am always left awed by the Glow Up participants â often self-taught, often working on beauty counters and honing their more exotic skills and creations in their leisure time.
This time round, the guest judge was the beauty journalist and activist Ateh Jewel, and the series opened with the task of designing an eyecatching look for a beauty campaign for Superdrugâs inclusive makeup range. So WHAT our Craig was thinking with his subtle, natural look for his snowy-haired model, well, NONE of us knows! Is that supposed to entice Superdrugâs customers through the doors of any one of the 800 stores whose windows it would be hung in! I think not! Think bigger, Craig!