Alrightreads: TV X

Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer, Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book

1984 / Ebook / 128 pages / UK

***

I didn't get my hopes up, but got into the spirit and enjoyed the limits of revulsion being tested, at least. It's credible that they'd actually bother writing this shit, since the disbelief is pretty securely suspended already.

Tom Hill, Donna Friedman and Chris Reccardi, Pat the Stimpy: The Nitty Gritty Touchy Smelly Book

1993 / Ebook / 14 pages / USA

***

Flimsy 4D fun, even if you have to use your imagination.

Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, Father Ted: The Craggy Island Parish Magazines

1998 / Ebook / 96 pages / Ireland

***

It's nice to see more of Father Crilly's day job, and his fleeting interests, grudges and other distractions. Less so the overwrought island-building and expanded ecclesiastical universe.

Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, The League of Gentlemen: A Local Book for Local People

2000 / Ebook / 128 pages / UK

****

This might have been in my collection from the time if they'd gone with less marketable packaging, but the unconvincingly literate Tubbs is merely our curator of precious paraphernalia and deeper local insights.

Ina Rae Hark, Star Trek

2008 / Ebook / 160 pages / USA

****

An OG critical fan realistically reviews and contrasts the franchise (to 2008), with the bizarrely rare focus on who was actually writing it. It avoids the films entirely, in humorously literal compliance with the TV Classics banner worthy of Data.