Paul Alexander Movies
British music-video maven Nigel Dick directs Seeing Double, featuring the U.K. pop band S Club. The story involves mad scientist Victor (David Gant) creating clones for each member of the band in his laboratory at Eagle Peak. After seeing the clones perform on TV, manager Alistair (Joseph Adams) is kidnapped and the real band is sent to jail. They manage to escape and fly to L.A., where bandmembers Jon, Rachel, and Hannah replace their clones, who help out Brad, Tina, and Jo. Everyone ends up back at Eagle Peak, Victor is eventually arrested, and the clones perform a show while the real band goes on holiday. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hannah Spearritt, Jo O'Meara, (more)
- 1994
Created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor of Red Green fame, the British sitcom The 10%er's took place within the walls of Eden Management, a high-profile London talent agency. Headed by Dominic Eden (Clive Francis), the agency's staff included Tony (Colin Stinton), Atin (Benedict Taylor), Joan (Elizabeth Bennett), Gloria (Irene Sutcliffe), Enid (Hilda Braid), and, during the first-season episodes, Helen (Gabrielle Cowburn). A number of British TV and film celebrities showed up as guest stars, primarily to make fun of themselves, while writers Grant and Naylor never let pass an opportunity to skewer show business in general and their Red Dwarf fans in particular. Fifteen episodes of The 10%er's were seen on ITV's Carlton Television services from April 18 to June 6, 1994, and from July 9 to September 3, 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
Debuting September 3, 1991 over BBC1, the long-running British sitcom 2.4 Children was all about an ostensibly typical family, the Potters. Despite their veneer of normality, the family invariably found itself experiencing all sorts of abnormal and surrealistic adventures, in the manner of the American comedies Married: With Children and Malcolm in the Middle. For the record, Ben Porter (Gary Olsen) ran a plumbing business with attractive assistant Christine (Kim Benson); Ben's wife (Belinda Lang) held down several dead-end jobs before launching a catering business with her friend Rona (Julia Hills); and the couple's kids, Jenny (played first by Claire Woodgate, then by Claire Buckfield) and David (John Pickard), were like most other wisecracking sitcom kids, only more so. One of the most endearing aspects of the series was its endless stream of pop-culture references, including Ben's referring to son David as "Puggsley," and the contemptuous nickname "Jake the Klingon" bestowed upon Ben's main business rival Jake Klinger (Roger Lloyd Pack). The 57th and final episodes of 2.4 Children was seen on December 30, 1999. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Belinda Lang, Gary Olsen, (more)
