Ads Infinitum (1998)

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 14 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Victor Lewis-Smith presents and mocks old TV and cinema adverts. The show uses archival footage, some of which had never been shown on UK television before.

humorousnostalgicsatiricalplayfullightheartedarchivalquirkymockingly-observational

What happens

Ads Infinitum was a British television comedy sketch/archive series, co-written and presented by Victor Lewis-Smith that originally ran on BBC Two, beginning with a 10-minute pilot episode in December 1996 that focused on adverts for Christmas toys, two series would soon follow. A series of 6 episodes in 1998, and a second series of 8 episodes in 2000. The series would look at old TV and cinema adverts, some footage previously unseen on UK TV, which Lewis-Smith would usually make fun of. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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