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The summer is here. The man on the radio said so. I was that man on the radio, as a presenter on XFM, so it must be true – right? Traditionally in radioland, everything shuts down for Xmas and then nothing happens for two months. No one can be bothered, …
Sitcoms – the defining shared televisual experiences of our youth and the fabric of our very lives!! Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Father Ted, I’m Alan Partridge, The Vicar of Dibley, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld… Just some of my favourite TV shows EVER and all of them sitcoms. I’m …
Busy times at Dabster Towers, and indeed the Dabster Colonies too. We’re spending plenty of time on the road for our various projects at the moment. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, London, Fife..and I don’t know if Richard mentioned he was doing a 10K.. The most prominent project that I’m working on …
DISCLAIMER: The purpose of this article is to draw your attention to the fact that The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected is on Radio Scotland on Wednesday this week (12th February 2014). It’s a comedy panel show that we made for the BBC that happens to have a lot of …
love it when a plan comes together. In July 2013, I visited San Francisco and New York on the last leg of a round the world tour that began in India and ended in the USA. This luckily coincided with us making the final episode of The Lach Chronicles for …
This may spoil your future enjoyment of the Man Booker Prize, quadruple Oscar winning story; Life of Pi. I wrote a joke this week that I thought was bang on and no-one gave a damn.
t was about three years ago when Julia Sutherland asked if I would introduce her on stage at Grape on George Street in Edinburgh. It was her first Fringe show and she needed a compere. I stupidly thought, how hard can it be? Get up there, talk for five minutes …
t’s the post New Year retrospective on the pre New Year sweatbox that was December. 2012 has been filed under“ Work/Templates/MASTERCOPY” for Dabster. We’ve seen pet projects graduate into commissions, we’ve strengthened existing relationships into new markets, delivered programming to be proud of and set up 2013 in a strong position with …
