Nice to See It, To See It, Nice by Brian Viner

Nice to See It, To See It, Nice by Brian Viner

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A wonderfully warm and witty memoir of growing up in front of the television in the 1970s -- by a man who went on to become a professional TV critic.

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Nice to See It, To See It, Nice by Brian Viner

The 1970s was not just the decade of power-cuts and three-day weeks, of Chopper bikes and Spacehoppers, of kipper ties and bad perms, of Abba and the Bay City Rollers . . . it was also the decade of Fawlty Towersand Porridge; A Bouquet of Barbed Wire and I, Claudius; The Sweeneyand Starsky and Hutch. There was no such thing in those days as Wacky Warehouse or Playstation or even video recorders -- for its entertainment, the nation switched on the telly. Some programmes, such as The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, were practically part of the national psyche, while some characters -- such as Benny from Crossroads and Olive from On The Buses-- became the unlikeliest of icons. Watching the box will never again be the collective experience it was then, and Brian Viner, in this hilarious and affectionate memoir, pays tribute to an era in televison -- the forgettable as well as the memorable -- which happily coincided with his own formative years.
Brian Viner was born in 1961 and grew up in Southport, Lancashire. He was the Mail on Sunday's award-winning television critic between 1995 and 1999, since when he has been a columnist on the Independent. He lives with his family in Herefordshire.
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ISBN 13 9781416527770
ISBN 10 141652777X
Title Nice to See It, To See It, Nice
Author Brian Viner
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Year published 2010-02-04
Number of pages 320
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