The Funny Side of... - Season 1

The Funny Side of... - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesAug 6, 2009 - Dec 22, 2009

Episodes

TV Talent
Season 1Episode 160 min

TV Talent

Clive Anderson guides us through the history of television's talent shows. Where did they come from? How have they evolved? And why do we so frequently end up laughing at them?

Aug 6, 2009
Politics
Season 1Episode 260 min

Politics

Clive Anderson charts the history of television's relationship with politics via the things that can and will go wrong.

Aug 13, 2009
Animals
Season 1Episode 360 min

Animals

Clive Anderson guides us through the history of television's love affair with animals. Never work with children or animals is an old adage, but TV continues to ignore it. And so mistakes and mishaps are bound to happen.

Aug 20, 2009
Live TV
Season 1Episode 460 min

Live TV

Clive Anderson guides us through the history of live TV, pointing out all the things that go wrong when the programme-makers have no second chance.

Aug 27, 2009
TV Experts
Season 1Episode 560 min

TV Experts

Clive Anderson guides us through the history of television's favourite experts and the pitfalls that attend the role. As well as pointing out the potential problems of being cast as a telly know-it-all, there's sage advice to the would-be experts of the future.

Sep 3, 2009
Christmas
Season 1Episode 660 min

Christmas

Clive Anderson tries to fathom the miracle of Christmas television. Why do we sit down in front of the box, year after year, with such high expectations, and then feel surprised when it feels like we've seen it all before? Mostly because, it turns out, we actually have seen it all before.

Dec 22, 2009

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FROM

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For All Mankind

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