I Love The Nineties

Ah! <sighs> Those were the days. The 1990s, when I didn't have a single care in the whole wide world... Hold on, that can't be right. We're talking about the 1990s right? It's not yet two years since the end of the 1990s, and the dawn of the new millennium, and we're already being encouraged to think back to fond memories of the decade with a tear in our eye? Something can't be right here - surely! I love nostalgia - don't get me wrong. However, when it's still in our recent memories I don't think that the time is quite right yet to recall all the great music (Er...Let me think...) all the embarrassing clothes ...  Read the complete review

For a while reality TV was the fashion. All channels succumbed to the delights of cheap peephole television. No scenario went unexplored and no job was deemed too dull not to have hordes of cameramen following around a bunch of celebrity craving misfits. Then it all petered out, just before my show ‘Claim Form-Life of an insurance investigator’ was due on screen. The cull of the reality shows lead to a void in the schedules that needed something equally cheap and vapid to fill it. We all hoped for re-runs of ‘The Professionals’ but instead nostalgia TV won the day. The format is so obvious only a lack of archive footage stopped ‘I ...  Read the complete review

What do remember 1996 for? Gareth Southgate? The Spice Girls? Lara Croft? Buzz Lightyear? Well this program covered them all! The first subject mentioned was, of course, the massive explosion of the Spice Girls. I have to admit now that I was caught in this explosion - I have their first two albums, the Pepsi special edition CD and a single too (and yes, before you ask, I have also dressed up and performed in a group as the Spice Girls before :P ). It was great seeing clips of their old videos and realising just how huge their 'Spice World' had been. I even learnt a new fact about them - that Nicki Chapman (judge from Popstars and Pop Idol) was the ...  Read the complete review

Last year we had ‘I Love the 70s’, ‘I Love the 80s’ came out in January and now as the autumn comes upon us the inevitable ‘I Love the 90s’ has arrived – ten weekly programmes that reminisce over each year of the last decade – all in order of course! As I write this I have seen all in the series except for ‘I Love 1994’ and ‘I Love 1996’. THE FORMAT For the uninitiated, the show follows pretty much the same format each week, which runs like so. After a song from that year plays (e.g ‘I Love 1990’ had ‘Doing the do’ By Betty Boo) over the opening titles, a ...  Read the complete review