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Review: Hammer Chillers – season 1

Hammer ChillersA little while ago, Bafflegab Productions announced the launch of Hammer Chillers, a series of weekly audio horror plays produced in conjunction with Hammer. Each week, a new play – lovingly priced at a mere £2.99 per halfish-hour episode – was released. The authors were pretty impressive, too, with Stephen Gallagher (Eleventh Hour), Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch), Paul Magrs (Vince Cosmos) and comedian Robin Ince in the line-up.

But you know me. Finding the time to listen to all these and write a review of them. Surely that would be impossible?

Well it’s not, and now that all six episodes have been made available and are now available to buy en masse as a download or on CD come next Friday, it’s time to review all of them: the good, the bad and the ugly.

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Just in case you wanted to watch a comedy pilot with Ricky Gervais as a David Bowie impersonator

Golden Years – not to be confused with Stephen King’s Golden Years – was one of Channel 4’s 1999 Comedy Lab pilots. Written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, it sees a pre-The Office Gervais as a video store owner obsessed with David Bowie and appearing on Stars in Their Eyes. It’s quite David Brent-like and if you have 20-odd minutes to spare, you can watch it below.

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