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Phil Cornwell Update

Phil is currently appearing on BBC2 in both Dead Ringers (Monday 21:00) and I'm Alan Partridge (Monday 22:00). Both are very funny. The former is a TV transfer of the hit Radio 4 comedy show. The latter is Phil reprising his role as Dave Clifton in the through-the-night show after Alan's on Radio Norwich. The new series of Partridge is not as original, or funny, as the first (Phil himself said he wondered how Coogan could top that), but still worth a look.

And now some older items of news:

New DVD and VHS out: Out of Depth, a film with Phil in, is on VHS and DVD. Does anyone know what this is like?

In Dead Ringers, Phil Cornwell made some appearances, doing Jack Nicholson and Robert DeNiro (very difficult). Series 1, 2, 3 and The Specials, are on CD and cassette. See all the Dead Ringers stuff here.

Phil, on 16/03/2001, participated in a new pilot show called The Friday Night Show. This show is produced by king of radio producers Bill Dare, and is an attempt to combine Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Dead Ringers, Comedy Nation and The Eleven Viewers Show. Indeed, Jon Holmes (who started so bright and fell so low) sat in the audience looking used and disappointed. I suspect he was partly to blame. The show was, erm, mixed. Highlights were the Mitchell and Webb sketches (two very talented writer-performers) and Simon Munnery/League Against Tedium’s routine ("Most pædophiles were themselves abused as children. The only way to stamp out pædophilia: kill the victims." Delivered to an unearthly silence). Dead Ringers was better on the radio, the camcorder-on-the-streets clips were rubbish, and the live "nuisance calls" routine was done to death by Victor Lewis-Smith years ago, and even then was suspect. This will probably therefore not get a series, however well intentioned it was. Then again, let’s not forget BBC3… And since this was written, The Friday Night Show has come on as the one-off Dead Ringers special, and since that was written, it's got a whole series. And I was there at the start!

John Sessions Update

Nothing to report.

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Can Anyone Help? The Saga Continues…

A while ago, this was posted on the page:

Kieran O'Keeffe asks: In the Zulu episode there was a Tune that the DJ was playing when Mrs Huggett was dancing what was that tune. U are my last hope.

Any ideas?

Well, Jenny Owen has been in touch: The music the DJ was playing in the Zulu party episode was PF project Feat. Ewan McGregor, “Choose life”

See, we get results!

Or do we:

That tune was not “Choose Life” by the PF Project!! I do not know what it was either, but it certainly wasn't that! HONEST!!

What I do know is that the tune appeared on a K'NEX TV commercial at the end of 1997. Hope I have helped. See ya fellas! Let’s hope for a new series!

Adam Pearson from Hartlepool, NE England

But Jenny replies:

fuckin' was choose life!

I've got the MP3 to prove it, the only reason I don't send it you is that it'll take ages to download on account of it being 2.65 MB.

it was on that beer advert 'a storm brewing' or some other slogan. There's Ewan Macgregor doing some talking, and then there's a big musical bit in the middle -which is what was on the Zulu party.

I'm angry that anyone can ever doubt my word!

Useless, aren’t we? I think I’ll go upstairs and kill myself.