Classic 1990s comedy chat show The Kumars is returning to television, here are the details.
In the 1990s, there were two shows which brought black British comedy into the mainstream. The first was The Real McCoy, a sketch show which launched the television careers of double acts Curtis Walker and Ishmael Thomas, and Llewella Gideon and Collette Johnson. Later series featured Robbie Gee, Eddie Nestor, Judith Jacob, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and the much missed Felix Dexter, amongst others.
The second series was sketch show Goodness Gracious Me, which premiered on the BBC in 1997. Taking an irreverent look at Asian-British experience, the series is probably best known for the now iconic ‘Going For An English’ sketch, which poked fun at the stereotypical British experience of going for a curry, but flipping races to an Indian family going out for bland English food.
Following the success of the show, the BBC...
In the 1990s, there were two shows which brought black British comedy into the mainstream. The first was The Real McCoy, a sketch show which launched the television careers of double acts Curtis Walker and Ishmael Thomas, and Llewella Gideon and Collette Johnson. Later series featured Robbie Gee, Eddie Nestor, Judith Jacob, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and the much missed Felix Dexter, amongst others.
The second series was sketch show Goodness Gracious Me, which premiered on the BBC in 1997. Taking an irreverent look at Asian-British experience, the series is probably best known for the now iconic ‘Going For An English’ sketch, which poked fun at the stereotypical British experience of going for a curry, but flipping races to an Indian family going out for bland English food.
Following the success of the show, the BBC...
- 2/26/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
A decades-old investigation into the gruesome murders of black children in Atlanta has been officially reopened, coincidentally converging with renewed interest in the case thanks to the second season of the Netflix series Mindhunter.
Earlier this year, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Atlanta police chief Erika Shields announced that, following advancements in DNA technology, the city would be retesting evidence associated with the Atlanta child murders, a series of gruesome killings of more than 25 black children and adolescents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the press conference,...
Earlier this year, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Atlanta police chief Erika Shields announced that, following advancements in DNA technology, the city would be retesting evidence associated with the Atlanta child murders, a series of gruesome killings of more than 25 black children and adolescents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the press conference,...
- 8/20/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
I havent seen a lot of films since getting to Telluride, but I've been seeing some of the important ones -- which has really paid off. We arrived in Colorado on Thursday night. Friday was the premiere of Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go, Saturday afternoon was the surprise premiere of Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, and Sunday was the surprise screening of Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. If you haven't read my reviews of these great films, I recommend you do as they are some of the best films I've experienced this year (so far). photo by: Curtis Walker The Problem With Reviewing Films at a Film Festival A movie critic usually gets some time to process his thoughts after seeing a movie screening. In local markets, movie screenings usually happen a couple days to a week before the release of a movie. In Hollywood, this can be upwards...
- 9/8/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
If you haven't seen yet, the Telluride Film Festival announced its line-up yesterday, and the fest officially kicks off today. I'm currently sitting in line at the Palm Theater, the local high school auditorium converted into a start-of-the-art cinema, waiting to see my first film of this year - Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go. The line-up this year has quite a few Cannes holdovers that the programmers decided to pull from that fest. At a press meeting earlier, they tried to claim that this year's Cannes line-up was strong, but if you read my coverage, I definitely can't agree. But at least one of my favorite flicks, Biutiful (read my review), is playing. That photo above is of Peter from SlashFilm and me working at the local coffee shop earlier today, as taken by our new friend Curtis Walker (@curtiswalker). That's one of the things I absolutely love...
- 9/4/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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