When the first TV ad launched on British televisions 70 years ago, only 100,000 homes in London and the south-east could receive the ad on special TV sets. Early TV advertising was simple, often black ...
Watching it now, there’s something a little creepy about it: a barely-heard, wistful flute; a barren backdrop of a winter forest; a voiceover in the strangely high-pitched, clipped register of a ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: I have to be completely honest about The Great British Baking Show‘s latest installment, “’70s Week.” On more than one occasion, I wondered if in keeping with the Netflix ...
British hit songwriters Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, who had also written the Hollies‘ 1972 hit “Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress),” and songs for Engelbert Humperdinck, Deep Purple, Cilla Black, ...
On this day 70 years ago, the first ad – one for Gibbs SR toothpaste – aired on British TV for the first time as ITV launched. Even back then, TV was hailed as effective. The man behind Britain’s ...