Anything decent on the box at the moment?
Carry On Langport jumps into a parallel universe for a moment and looks at what the TV listings might look like if Langport and Huish were the centre of the universe.....
[which of course they are, right?]
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DOCTOR WHO - The Tardis lands on Cheapside, Langport in May 2024 just as an asteroid ploughs in to the front of the town's oldest space station. BBC1 - Saturday - 7pm
IT'S A KNOCKOUT! - Enjoy the chaos on one of Langport's narrowest streets, Bonds Pool, as parents drive up and down collecting their children from the scout hut at the bottom. In tonight's episode - entitled EVER THOUGHT OF PARKING DOWN ON THE REC AT THE EASTOVER END AND WALKING ACROSS? - the driver of a 4x4 wider than a Persimmon Home (only coming to pick up one child) refuses to back up as 4 others come the other way. ITV2 - Thursday - 8pm
SUPERMARKET SWEEP - Watch locals grab all the groceries they can at Langport Tesco before products are discontinued and replaced with something 3 times the price. In this week's quarter final it's Garden City versus Moor Park Road. BBC1 - Friday - 5.30pm
ABANDONED ENGINEERING - the show about megastructures, machines, architecture and other aspects of days gone by no longer relevant to modern life. In tonight's episode presenters visit the knackered wind-up bridge outside the old Railway Hotel, Priest Lane, and Saturday nights in Langport. YESTERDAY CHANNEL - Thursday - 8pm
PANORAMA - the Panorama team investigates plans for a long and expensive set of fences along North Moor to seperate the 'Tesco path' from the common land used by local farmers. What's prompted it? Who complained about cow pats? Was somebody's child/dog attacked? Who's paying for it? Why has it not been a problem for the last 250 years? and will walkers be able to bypass it if they're carrying a clubcard? BBC2 - tonight - 10.30pm
TOMORROW'S WORLD - In a relaunch of the once popular BBC TV series - the team takes a look ahead at the year 2040. Langport's new railway station, on former Huish Academy land opposite the Peony Valley estate [where they used to hold archery games and on the school's crosscountry route], has now been open for 5 years. Roads have been bumper to bumper with traffic ever since as commuters pour in 24/7 to park up and take trains. With Langport now on the national rail timetable, forget buying a house, renting's become the new trophy but barely 40% of local young people can afford it with many having to move away from where they're from and go for lettings in Yeovil, Chard, Crewkerne & Bridgwater instead. BBC4 - Saturday - 7.45pm
GRANGE HILL - in tonight's repeat of the vintage 1970s secondary school drama, head teacher Mrs McClusky ponders what the comprehesive system might look like in the 2020s and jokes with staff about punishing children wearing school uniform shoes 'the wrong shade of black', kowtowing to pupils identifying as cats instead of telling them to belt up and not being able to smack a kid round the head anymore for being cheeky (or identifying as a cat) DRAMA CHANNEL - Thursday - 4pm
and finally in the Carry On Langport TV listings.....
MALCOLM & RICHY - news series of the award-winning drama written by James Cordon and Ruth Jones. In next week's episode, the former owners of the Langport Arms Hotel accidentally drive their infamous motorhome off the pier at Barry Island while reaching for a crate of Merlot and knocking the handbrake off. BBC1 - Tuesday - 9pm
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Oh what fun!
Thanks for reading, bit of local advertising for you and then that's it...
Up at Pibsbury this summer:
This chap's from Langport and has made his own short film, praps a night out at the flicks?
Forget POLLING STATION on Thursday next week, how about DRINKING STATION?
and finally, give this one a go this summer. Lots and lots to see and do, and dance to, and drink....
and come on folks, to say "I'd rather just see them at Eli's" is just daft. This country show is so much more. There's no comparison. Great location, shelter if it rains, fun for the kids and live music. Two days of it! [Praps do Eli's and the show eh?]
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