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November 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The TED.Danson Talks

  * I first knew Ted Danson from Cheers. He played a guy called Sam Malone. But he could have been named Ted Danson. * Ted Danson had been in a load of TV before Cheers – rubbish soaps and sitcoms, a walk-on here, a bit part there. But he was in Taxi… it was […]
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April 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Radio on the TV: My Top 10 All-Time Favourite TV Themes

The other day I was listening to Carl Stalling for the first time in a while – his bonkers-brilliant cartoon music puts you right there. You no longer need the images. The same is true of any great soundtrack composer, for film or TV. I regularly give Danny Elfman’s Music For A Darkened Theatre a spin […]
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