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Urban Myths: The Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy. Bill Grundy (Steve Pemberton)
Urban Myths: The Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy

Urban Myths: The Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy

  • TV comedy drama
  • Sky Arts
  • 2018
  • 1 episode

A comedy drama about the infamous appearance of The Sex Pistols on Bill Grundy's live teatime television show. Also features Steve Pemberton, Daniel Mays, Rachel Bright, Frankie Fox, William Kettle and more.

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Urban Myths: The Sex Pistols Vs Bill Grundy

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2018
Channel
Sky Arts
Episodes
1
Stars
Steve Pemberton, Daniel Mays, Rachel Bright, Frankie Fox, William Kettle, Charlie Wernham, Matt Whitchurch, Kieran Hodgson and more
Writer
Simon Nye
Director
Simon Delaney
Producers
Laura Burrows, Simon Delaney, Matthew Mulot, Tilusha Ghelani, Tim Allsop, Andrew Newman, Simon Nye and Lucy Jack
Company

This is the reimagined story behind The Sex Pistols' infamous appearance on Bill Grundy's show in 1976, a year before their legendary debut album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols was released.

The foul-mouthed encounter catapulted The Sex Pistols into the public eye and signalled the arrival of mainstream punk, while simultaneously destroying Grundy's career - and all because of a last minute cancellation by Freddie Mercury.

Additional details

Part of

Urban Myths

Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Thursday 31st May 2018 at 9pm on Sky Arts
Episode length
22 minutes
Most recent repeats
  • Tuesday 7th March 2023 at 12:50am on Sky Arts
  • Tuesday 9th August 2022 at 10:00pm on Sky Arts
  • Thursday 3rd March 2022 at 3:10am on Sky Arts

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