ITV Archives - Desperate Living

Pensioners Behaving Badly: The Aged Pleasures Of You’re Only Young Twice

The 1970s sitcom is not one of the lost classic British comedy shows of the era.

This Morning And Richard Madeley Explore The Exotic World Of Body Piercing

The bumbling TV presenter attempts to make navel piercings seem like the extremes of body modification in a spectacularly cringeworthy broadcast from 1994.

The Ubiquity Of Popular Culture

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When movies and TV shows are everywhere all the time, they lose the sense of scarcity and importance that originally made them so special.

Behind the Scenes On Britain’s Got Talent

M.J. Simpson ventures forth as a contestant in Britain’s biggest TV talent show.

The Reprobate Movie Night: Beastly Bugs Double Bill

A pair of 1970s TV movies about the creepy crawly threat of savage bees and panic-inducing ants.

Ofcom’s Commercial Failures

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Britain’s TV regulator thinks that more of this sort of thing will encourage people to watch traditional TV channels again. They are mistaken.

Oh Brother!

Why the return of the reality TV flagship show is nothing to put the bunting out for.

The Eternal Grift Of John Darwin

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Britain’s most pathetic fraudster pensioner is off to fight in Ukraine with his life insurance fully paid up – what is there to be suspicious of?

This Was Their Lives: TV’s Sycophantic Celebrity Biographies

A selection of classic episodes from the UK edition of This Is Your Life.

Portrait Of A Grumpy Old Man: The Quatermass Conclusion

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Nigel Kneale’s final outing for Professor Quatermass is a bitterly misanthropic attack on youth and society by a man who felt himself above it all.

Carry On Hyping

Slinger’s Day – The Disastrous Attempt To Make Bruce Forsyth A Sit-Com Star