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Steve Otis Gunn is a writer, performer, and musician — and a former sound engineer who has spent most of his career in close proximity to people doing interesting things, occasionally on purpose. His debut Edinburgh Fringe show, Steve Otis Gunn is Uncomfortable, earned a ★★★★ review, and his debut book, You Shot My Dog and I Love You, is available everywhere books are sold. He created Television Times to have the conversations he actually wants to have — with actors, comedians, filmmakers, and creative misfits who’ve spent their lives on the road, on location, on tour, and in situations that didn’t quite go to plan. Every guest has a story about the time things went sideways. This is where those stories live. Original music written by Steve Otis Gunn (unless otherwise credited)
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- 5 days ago43 min
Dewey Gaedcke: Five Days Lost in a Hawaiian Lava Field (Survival Special)
Dewey Gaedcke was in Hawaii as a last-minute concierge favour when a friend told him about a volcano worth seeing at night. Five days later, he was rescued by a teenager in a tourist helicopter. The park service had already told his family he was probably dead.Dewey Gaedcke is known for surviving one of the most extraordinary ordeals in recent memory — five days lost on a remote lava field in Hawaii without water, proper footwear, or any idea where he was.The small decisions that compounded into a survival situation — an hour-and-a-half hike, a pair of jogging shoes, and no waterWhat it actually feels like to be lost with no landmarks, no path, and no signalHow he kept himself alive in conditions that should have killed himThe footage he recorded for his daughters in case he didn't make itHow a teenager in a tourist helicopter found him after the park service had already told his family to prepare for the worstConnect with Dewey here:FacebookFind us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago55 min
John Scott: Wrong Place, Right Story
John Scott has been doing stand-up since 1999, accidentally said "Brexit" at a Yorkshire corporate full of insurance folk, co-wrote a Japanese animated drama, and once did a gig in Budapest that he's fairly certain was arranged for the Russian mafia. He also wants to go back in time and hang out with Bowie in Berlin, but then again, who doesn't?John Scott is a comedian, scriptwriter, and host of The Scottish Sweary News, known for his sharp, laid-back delivery and a career that has taken some genuinely unexpected turns.The Budapest gig — flown in, flown out the same night, performing to a room full of salespeople who were, he strongly suspects, selling to some very dodgy people indeedWalking on stage at a corporate event and saying the one word he'd told himself not to sayHow a pandemic freelancing site led to co-writing a Japanese animated drama — and what it taught him about storytellingHow The Scottish Sweary News started as an accident — and suddenly gained thousands of followersWhy he's stepped back from the Edinburgh Fringe — and why he thinks it stopped being a viable career step a long time agoConnect with John here:InstagramTikTokYouTubeFind us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago43 min
Seymour Mace: Clowning Around — From Tokyo Street Theatre to Doing Exactly What You Want
Seymour Mace spent time as a clown in Japan, did a Fine Art degree during COVID, built a potter's wheel in his back garden, got a first, and somewhere in the middle of all that did some stand-up. He's fine.Seymour Mace is a British comedian and actor known for his surreal, offbeat humour and cult status on the UK comedy circuit, best recognised for his role in the BBC series Ideal.How he ended up working as a street clown in Japan in the '90s — and how he nearly stayed on as Big Bird at Tokyo DisneylandWhat doing a Fine Art degree during lockdown taught him about creativity — and why the education system quietly beats it out of most people Comedy courses and clown schools — why Seymour thinks the best training is just being around funny people and working out why they're funnyThe freedom of not chasing fame, and why, with no mortgage or anyone to answer to, he's essentially living like a rich person without having to be a c**t Connect with Seymour here:InstagramFacebookFind us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago58 min
Howard J. Ford: Caves, Cannibals and Cannes
Howard J Ford has stared down a four-ton boulder held up by a single pebble, sat on funeral pots containing the dead while eating lunch, been lifted off his feet by hundreds of people in Burkina Faso, and walked out of a Mississippi murder house that nobody could bring themselves to buy. All in the name of independent filmmaking.Howard J Ford is a British filmmaker, director, and cinematographer whose films include The Dead, Never Let Go, The Ledge, River of Blood, Dark Game, Escape, and Bonekeeper — out now on Prime Video & Apple TV. His new action thriller Zipwire is heading to Cannes, and if his track record is anything to go by, it won't be long before it lands on your streaming service of choice.Why filming Bonekeeper in real caves in Wales and Herefordshire meant learning to light absolute darknessThe Burkina Faso incident: filming in a village with no electricity, sitting on pots containing dead relatives, and being swept off his feet by hundreds of people at the end of the shootThe haunted house in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where both Howard and his producer felt something was seriously wrongThe screenplay Howard wrote, which Morgan Freeman once wanted to star inWhy boredom is the starting point for everything — and how every film begins as a blank void before thousands of images and a story slowly emerge from nothingThe cannibal on a bicycle who stayed to watch the shoot — and why he was laughingConnect with Howard here:InstagramFacebookFind us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Feb 12, 20264 min
Podcast Name Change Alert!
Something's changed — and it's bigger than just a name.After four seasons as Television Times, the podcast has a new title: All My Clothes Need Burning. Steve explains why the change makes sense, where the title came from, and what Season 5 is going to look like.Why Television Times always felt like a TV listings show to people who'd never heard it — and why that got oldWhere the title All My Clothes Need Burning comes from — and why it was too good to keep in a drawerThe new format: funny stories from the road, the set, the tour bus, and the moments that didn't go to plan — from guests and from Steve himselfFind us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Jan 1, 202658 min
Paul Critoph Returns: 2025 - The Year Television Lost the Plot
Paul Critoph returns for the annual TV debrief Paul Critoph is an actor and regular friend of the podcast, joining Steve for the third consecutive end-of-year television review — the one where they figure out which shows they've actually both watched.Why Alien Earth started brilliantly and then made its xenomorphs bulletproof in broad daylight — and why that ruins everythingSquid Game 2 and 3: the hide and seek episode that was genuinely brilliant, the policeman on a boat for far too long, and why the ending made them angry instead of emotionalThe Summer I Turned Pretty — a show aimed at teenage girls that Paul's wife binged entirely while Paul occasionally wandered in to ask who Conrad and Jeremiah wereWhy Andor is the best Star Wars thing since The Empire Strikes Back — and why it's really a show about fascism and how it gets its tendrils into communitiesBlack Mirror's return to form — and why the Bandersnatch multiple-choice situation still annoys SteveThe Bear: essentially someone chopping a radish very slowly while looking moody, for weeks on endConnect with Paul here:InstagramFacebookOriginally released under the podcast's former name: Television Times.Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Dec 21, 202547 min
Do Not Adjust Your Pod!
Steve empties the whiteboard, clears his head, and has an honest conversation about what making this podcast actually feels like from the inside — the burnout, the uncertainty, the ads he hates, and why he's seriously considering living in the woods.This is a bonus solo episode featuring no guest, one very good cup of coffee, and more honesty than most podcasts manage in a full series.A full rundown of every podcast Steve actually listens to — from Memory Lane and Parenting Hell to The Rest Is Politics, Louis Theroux, What Did You Do Yesterday, and why Bill Maher is simultaneously brilliant and infuriatingWhy the end of a season brings on the funk — and what it's like running a podcast entirely solo with no producer, no team, and no idea who's listeningThe comedy character he's been developing in his head for years: a sound engineer with a broken mixing desk, a Mick Hucknall lyric, and a show provisionally titled Knob JokesThe treacherous taxi ride at 3,000 metres in the Bolivian Andes to reach the schoolhouse where Che Guevara was killed — and the song he eventually wrote about itOriginally released under the podcast's former name: Television Times.Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Dec 18, 202555 min
Doug Naylor: How Red Dwarf Made TV Better Than Life
The co-creator of Red Dwarf wrote a number one single in five minutes, turned around a failing Spitting Image, and had his brand new Red Dwarf movie cancelled because it was the BBC's only successful comedy. You couldn't write it. Well, Doug could.Doug Naylor is the co-creator and writer of Red Dwarf, which has run for 12 series and continues to find new audiences decades on. He co-wrote the Chicken Song (number one, 1986), was script editor on Spitting Image, and wrote for Jasper Carrott, Cannon and Ball, Ken Dodd, and numerous others. His children's book Sin Bin Island is the Financial Times Children's Book of the Year.The casting sessions where Alan Rickman, Hugh Laurie, and Alfred Molina all auditioned — and why Danny John-Jules, half an hour late in his dad's old suit, got the Cat after the very first auditionHow Craig Charles pestered Paul Jackson until he said "just see him to get him off my back" — and why Doug originally didn't like himThe BBC cancelled the new Red Dwarf movie because it was the only successful comedy they commissionedThe fake Duke of Manchester, who offered £12 million, sent a fax with his bank balance Tipp-Exed out and the amount typed in — and was later sent to prisonConnect with Doug here:FacebookinstagramOriginally released under the podcast's former name: Television Times.Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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About Television Times with Steve Otis Gunn
Steve Otis Gunn is a writer, performer, and musician — and a former sound engineer who has spent most of his career in close proximity to people doing interesting things, occasionally on purpose. His debut Edinburgh Fringe show, Steve Otis Gunn is Uncomfortable, earned a ★★★★ review, and his debut book, You Shot My Dog and I Love You, is available everywhere books are sold. He created Television Times to have the conversations he actually wants to have — with actors, comedians, filmmakers, and creative misfits who’ve spent their lives on the road, on location, on tour, and in situations that didn’t quite go to plan. Every guest has a story about the time things went sideways. This is where those stories live. Original music written by Steve Otis Gunn (unless otherwise credited)
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