[singlepic=68,320,240,,right]The Carry On series ran from 1958 till 1978 and other than a brief stop off in the New World in 1992’s Carry On Columbus has never managed to get back on its feet. Personally I would fund a new movie like a shot if I had the money… perhaps producers should consider a public [...]
Carry On Doctor Who
[singlepic=3,320,240,web20,right]According to a certain respected newspaper, Doctor Who was at one point considered as a subject for a Carry On movie!
A series that has had top comedy writers such as Douglas Adams and Steven Moffat writing for it, Doctor Who with all of its wondrous idiosyncrasies, would be perfect Carry On fodder. Third [...]
Tears of the Clown?
We hear so much about the “tragic” comics – Tony Hancock, for instance – that the tragedy tends to overshadow the body of work that they leave behind.
Of course it makes a good story for the media to talk about lonely comics, holed up in hotel rooms, away from their families and friends, topping themselves.
Dwelling [...]
Carry On!
It’s silly, bawdy, in many cases badly and cheaply made, yet Carry On… is still wonderful, giving us some of the biggest stars in comedy history, launching careers, giving work to old actors who need it and generally being British.
Without Carry On…, we would have no Barbara Windsor. Kenneth Williams would never have become so [...]
