Are you sick of shows such as What Not to Look Like, Laughing at Poor People, and How Fat is Your Wife? Max and Terry are and they have the perfect entertainment solution. Enter the Media Museum for a round of Cribbenâs Cribbage and Sherrieâs Skittles as the veteran telly experts create a pub-quiz-sitcom-costume-drama gameshow where members of the public and top celebs, including Nicky Berry and Don Estelle, can mingle and have a jolly knees up. And this week Max and Terry would like to thank the lovely Sandra Virgin for sending in the jaffa cakes.
TV Phone Sex Tragedy!
20 Sep 2008 @ 04:32 am
Max accidentally lands on some filthy channels on his Sky box and
discovers that for Â1.50 a minute you can speak to a woman in her pants
for sordid phone sex while a nation watches on. Shocking stuff, I'm sure
you'll agree. And so Max and Terry deconstruct this terrible,
exploitative phenomenon and then turn it into a bleak ITV drama series.
Join them to learn the horror of being forced to waggle your bits
around 9 nights a week, secrets of the serious acting beard, and how
media studies can help turn lives around.
An Afternoon at the Revolution
13 Sep 2008 @ 05:53 am
Max casts his mind back to a Norman Wisdom film that never was. His tribute to the Marx brothers, in the form of a Karl Marx biopic, had all the makings of a classic slice of cinema comedy. Be astounded at the cavalier approach to historical accuracy and marvel at what could have been. Subscribe today, visit the website (www.mediamuseum.co.uk) and tune in next week for a shocking view of the seedier side of satellite television.
Indoors Outdoors
6 Sep 2008 @ 04:22 am
Give the neighbours something good to talk about as you invite a TV crew to transform your garden into extra living space. Max and Terry show how the life of a poor family can be enhanced by Brian Dowling and Robson Green tramping through their backyard. Add thousands to the value of your house in this tricky time of the credit crunch. Along the way find out secrets of the wheelchair, Alan Titchmarsh off camera and Robson Green's new catchphrase.
Surf Doctor
30 Aug 2008 @ 07:58 am
Prepare your ears for genius as Max and Terry search for a more talented, and less litigious Ross Kemp settling on the peopleâs actor Robson Green. Robson is mooted as the star of their action-packed, genre-crossing TV treat âSurf Doctorâ, a show already described as âhaving one over Lovejoy.â Dare to imagine a surfing-doctor-detective foiling the plot of an evil Leslie Grantham and his just-as-evil hypnotised sharks.
Charity Begins in Hove
24 Aug 2008 @ 05:51 am
Bookings are now being taken for Max's lecture tour. Hear about a 78% surefire hit that never got past the pilot stage, Charity Begins in Hove. Max takes you behind the scenery (left over from another show) to give you a first hand insight into the creation of comedy gold.
Children
17 Aug 2008 @ 07:13 am
Who is Ted Monroe? What to do to get the kids to stop all the stabbing and pull themselves off away from the internet? Max and Terry create a world of wonder, full of wondrous things in your actual olden days, in the shape of a classic drama serial for kids. Find out why Max and Terry feel obligated to Cilla Black, the going rate for Joe Pasquale and how to defeat evil moth creatures from another realm.
Code A
10 Aug 2008 @ 03:33 am
Alien shenanigans in the far-off future of 1998 are recalled by Terry. Find out how Gareth Hunt got the part as Space Agent John Granger, why Morty Vicker's double act 'Vicker and Tart' dissolved, and why you should use non-toxic glue in monster masks. All this and how clever use of an egg sandwich can help you get the best performance from your actors.
Crime
3 Aug 2008 @ 04:40 am
It's one hot spud of a topic. This week Max and Terry lament a lack of decent police procedurals on the telly and devise a surefire hit that'll get Parky reaching for his Sky+ box. Also find out why Max is miffed with the Chuckle Brothers, and why Terry isn't too chuffed with that fella from Eastenders (not Ross Kemp, the other one, he was in it years ago, you remember him don't you?). Where to buy drugs, what kids get up to in jail and what you'd never name a child - all covered in great detail and oh so much more.
Life's A Drag
27 Jul 2008 @ 06:06 am
Ronnie Corbett's boxer shorts! Yes Max returns for another remembering session. The hilarity of men dressing up as women is taken to hysterical new heights of humour in the pilot for 'Life's a Drag'. But where did it come from? How was it made? Why was it never released? All these issues and more are addressed along with a performance of the show's jokes by Max himself.
