Thursday, 23 August 2012

urban spaceman

In the late 1970s, ex-Bonnzo Dog band Neil Innes starred, wrote and performed 3 series of The Innes Book of Records, one of TV’s truly original shows. Sadly, the BBC has been loathe to repeat or even release this classic piece of Brit musical culture.
Why do the BBC keep doing that? With an archive going as far back as television itself there's surely a reason for an entire channel let alone a one off series. At least online. It's taxpayers who pay for this stuff in the first place so give us some value beyond another fucking talent/cooking/dancing show.
Anyway there is an online petition to get the Beeb to pull its finger out and do something useful and show The Innes Book of Records again, it's here And here is Neil Innes himself. The idiot.
via Dangerous Minds