| Welcome to 2010
Welcome to the new year. We hope you enjoyed the festive season and are looking forward to a great new year. We have added our 2009 round-up newsletter to the site, ready for you to download. It has some great things in that will tide you over until our next update. (once we recover!) We would like to thank all the people who have made the effort to contact us, help us, provide material and generally be good eggs throughout last year. Thank you.
Posted:01/01/2010 | |
Other News....
| News: Charity Auction
A charity auction to be held later this will be offering a unique prise, especially if you are a Morecambe and Wise fan.
The Brathay Trust is organising a Christmas auction to help raise money for children in care, young offenders, young carers and people that have been involved in gangs in inner cities, amongst others.
Prises include signed Wainwright DVDs by TV presenter Julia Bradbury, a training session with former England footballer Viv Anderson and the one for Morecambe and Wise fans...
The winner of this one will get a full guided tour of Morecambe, Eric’s old stomping ground, schools and homes by his son Gary and his chauffeur Mike.
The auction hopes to raise thousands of pounds to help over 5,000 of the UK’s most disadvantaged young people.
So keep an eye out for the auction which is due to start 8th November on the Brathay website.
Posted:05/09/2010 | |
| News: Morecambe Tour Dates
The hugely successful stage show Morecambe, is embarking on a nationwide tour. If you missed it the first time round, then now is your chance to see it, and we recommend you do. If you did manage to see it during the first tour or at Edinburgh, then why not go again.
For all of the tour dates and locations, check out the website morecambetheplay.com.
Posted:04/09/2010 | |
| News: Series 9 Compo
You can win yourself a copy of the BBC Series 9 DVD right now! Why not enter our easy competition, you never know, you might just be one of the lucky winners. Give it try and join the increasing number of people who have won something from morecambeandwise.com.
Competition page here.
Posted:01/09/2010 | |
| News: Morecambe Wins Award
Morecambe, the stage show has recently won the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards for the Best Entertainment section. Our congratulations to all concerned. This show will be back on tour from September onwards so check your local theatres.
Posted:31/08/2010 | |
| Update: Mini-Update
While looking through some archives to find information for a media company, we managed to grab enough data for a mini-update. So we have quite a few new entries in the Trivia section. We also have a nice article containing an interview with Doreen from earlier this year. Not only that be we have also added our own review of Series 8 DVD plus a small update to the shows database.
Posted:20/08/2010 | |
| News: Victoria Wood Interview
As work begins on the drama telling the story of Eric and Ern's younger days, we interview Victoria Wood; Executive producer and the person playing Eric's mother.
We talk about her life, the progress of the show and comedy in general. Read the interview here.
To read some of our other interview, visit our Interview Page.
Posted:03/08/2010 | |
| News: Disagreeing Poll
There is a bit of a debate going on surrounding a recent poll to find the Best Comedy Duo. The poll, organised by seesaw.com, places James Corden and Mat Horne in first place, just in front of Morecambe and Wise.
Now we like James and Mat, and we really enjoyed Gavin and Stacy, but to give them top slot is another matter.
In an article on the Sky website several other sites and pundits, including Chortle, are saying the results are not really plausible.
To compare different generations is akin to comparing Ali with Tyson. Our own comments can also be found there; taking nothing away from James and Mat, if they are still at the top in 40 years time; then we'll take another look.
Posted:01/08/2010 | |
| News: Competitions Now Closed
Thanks to everyone who entered both of our competitions. The winners will be notified within the next 7 days. We have more competions coming soon, so keep watching.
Posted:01/08/2010 | |
| Update: Garage Tapes Part 2
We have added the second part of our audio feature about the Garage Tapes. To listen or download, head to our Audio Features section.
We have also made a few small changes to various sections of the site, mainly news and site updates. This is to take into account the merging of the two and the move to non-monthly updates. Hope we don't do anything nasty!
Posted:27/07/2010 | |
| News: Next Sullivan Episode
Added the next episode to our ongoing Ed Sullivan episode guide. View the new addition by clicking here.
Made several corrections to existing items due to appalling spelling!
Posted:13/07/2010 | |
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