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BBC News
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Cult comedy screening to raise funds for Devon seawall repair
A special screening of a cult 80s comedy film is taking place to help raise funds to repair a 100-year-old Devon breakwater at Hope Cove Harbour, in South Devon, protects the beach at the seaside village but needs urgent work and if it is breached the sands could be washed 1985 film The Supergrass by the comedy group The Comic Strip features an iconic scene in which the late actor Robbie Coltrane marches along the breakwater in crashing director of the film, Peter Richardson, is holding an event showing a special 'Director's Cut' screening in nearby Marlborough to help raise funds for the repair work. 'Breakwater is crumbling' The breakwater was last repaired in 1983 but it has some big cracks and local residents are concerned that a breach in the wall could have a devastating impact on the village."If we lose the sand, we lose the harbour and that would be catastrophic for the village," said joint Harbourmaster Sean Hassall."We'll lose our tourism industry."The locals come down here as well so really we want to make people aware how crucial our breakwater is and how important it is to get the funding and get it sorted," he said. The benefit night, at Marlborough Village Hall, is designed to try to raise awareness of the breakwater as well as to raise money to support the repair work. "The breakwater is crumbling and we need to find some way to get it repaired and it costs money these days," said Mr Richardson. "They need to raise it [money] and that is why we are doing a charity benefit showing The Supergrass which features that scene with Robbie on the breakwater."'It's the 40th anniversary of the release of Supergrass so it seems like a good time to do something with it so I've recut it." The coastline is part of the Crown Estate and the harbour is leased by the Hope Cove Harbour harbour is self funding and raises money through mooring and launch fees. It is estimated the breakwater repairs will cost more than £1m. The Friends of Hope Cove Harbour is a charity trying to raise money for the repairs. So far they have accumulated £100,000. "We've had various experts look at it [the breakwater] in the past few years and it is going to go at some stage but nobody can give a date," said Graham Phillips, the chairman of the charity. "Before it goes we want to try to raise enough money to repair it in a substantial way because if it goes the beach will disappear."The Supergrass is due to be shown at Marlborough Village Hall on Saturday 15 March 2025.
Buzz Feed
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
People Are Sharing The Childhood TV Shows They Kind Of Remember, But Mostly Feel Like A Fever Dream
Recently, I asked the wonderful people of the BuzzFeed Community to share a childhood TV show they KNOW they watched as a kid, but it feels like a fever dream. Some core memories were unlocked in the process: 1. " Salute Your Shorts. Camp Anawanma was awesome!" — ambers408c4b9ae 2. "Do do do do you have it? GUTS!!!!" 3. "What was the show, back in the '70s, with the part about conjunctions? Their song was, 'Conjunction junction, what's your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.'" ABC / Via 4. " The Big Comfy Couch." 5. "Does anyone remember a cartoon called Street Frogs? Yeah…frogs…dressed in hip-hop gear…rapping. Someone greenlit that." — oldqueen963 This show was actually one of many as part of the animated series The Comic Strip 6. " Bananas in Pyjamas. The theme song still pops into my head at the most random moments. I found myself humming it the other day and was so perplexed." 7. " Braceface. All I really remember is sometimes the main character's braces could pick up radio signals/phone calls? But sometimes random snippets of the theme song will come into my head." 8. "I remember some animated show about rats living in the White House." — officialcoach381 It was called Capitol Critters! 9. "There was a science show with a bunch of kids in the '80s called 3-2-1 Contact. They did experiments and had fun learning things. I remember really enjoying that show." 10. " Almost Naked Animals. I think it was an animated show about animals in their underwear working at a hotel. But I can't remember exactly." 11. " Kids' Writes. An improv show on Nickelodeon where the cast acted out ideas that kids sent them in the mail (this was before the internet)." 12. " The Head. It was on MTV. A guy has a ridiculously large head, and an alien lives inside of it? I have no idea what any of the episodes were about. I don't remember if I liked it, but I definitely watched it." 13. " Dave the Barbarian." 15. " The Girl From Tomorrow must have been in the early '90s — pretty scant memories, but it was set in space; I remember a girl (Alana/Lana?) as the main character, and I am pretty sure time travel was involved." 16. " Weinerville. It was a variety show that aired on Nickelodeon in the '90s, and I seem to be the only person I know who remembers it. I loved this show and how they 'shrunk' kids to become puppets and play games on the show. It was weird, funny, and full of adult jokes. As a kid, this show was as good as it got. You can still find old episodes on YouTube." 17. " ReBoot was an amazing childhood show! One of my first introductions to computer animation TV." 18. "I barely remember an '80s show about a family with a live-in maid that was a robot and looked like a little girl; she had a battery pack and everything. called Small Wonder!" 19. " Liberty's Kids on PBS walked so Hamilton could run. Sorry, Lin Manuel Miranda, you weren't the first to rap about the American Revolution." 20. " Maggie and the Ferocious Beast." 21. "It has bugged me for years that I can't remember the name of this show, but it was a game show where kids had to complete tasks, and one was swimming in a giant filthy sink to collect items from it. I remember the huge taps and toothbrushes!" 22. " Lamb Chop's Play Along! I know I didn't dream it up." 23. " Rolie Polie Ollie...I loved it! His little sister was the cutest." 24. " The New Adventures of Madeline. About an orphanage in France with many little girls, the leader of which was Madeline. It used to end with a scene of the Eifel Tower in every episode." 25. "There was a kid show my family used to watch reruns of in the late '90s about a dinosaur family. I think the name of it was Dinosaurs. It was live-action and creepy but also kind of funny." 26. And lastly, so long, farewell, to you, my friends: " Out Of The Box! It was a show on Disney Channel, and I loved it."
