Time Trumpet is a six-episode television comedy series which aired on BBC Two during Summer 2006. The first full show was broadcast on Thursday 3 August 2006 at 10pm; a 10 minute preview had been broadcast two weeks earlier. The satirical series, written by Armando Iannucci, Roger Drew and Will Smith, "looked back" on events of the first 30 years of the 21st century from the perspective of a nostalgia show in the year 2031 in a similar manner to ...
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Time Trumpet is a six-episode television comedy series which aired on BBC Two during Summer 2006. The first full show was broadcast on Thursday 3 August 2006 at 10pm; a 10 minute preview had been broadcast two weeks earlier. The satirical series, written by Armando Iannucci, Roger Drew and Will Smith, "looked back" on events of the first 30 years of the 21st century from the perspective of a nostalgia show in the year 2031 in a similar manner to his earlier one-off programmes 2004: The Stupid Version and Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt.
Actors and actresses played the parts of 'today's stars' thirty years on, as they looked back into the past (our near future), in Iannucci's usual surreal yet sensible style. In one scene we see 'Anne Robinson' reminiscing about 2009 when an obsession with plastic surgery - inspired by herself - went so mainstream that a CBBC TV show called 'Spicey Slicey' was commissioned, where youngsters write in to go under the knife live on air. In a similar scene...
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