Ads Infinitum (1998)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 2 seasons, 15 episodes
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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