Remember those old Old Spice ads from the 70s and 80s? If not, voilà – an aide mémoire:
Rubbish, huh? Well, they’ve suddenly got a sense of humour in the US, at least:
…although some are verging on the just plain weird.
There are more in the Old Spice YouTube channel. Please don’t let them encourage you to wear any Old Spice though (not unless the smell’s changed since the 70 and 80s, anyway).
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
