In Bed with Medinner
In Bed with Medinner is a late-night British TV programme starring Bob Mills and originally broadcast in the 1990s. It is a precursor to the contemporary "Harry Hill's TV Burp", Russell Brand's "Ponderland" and Paddy McGuinness's "Paddy's TV Guide". "In Bed with Medinner" was a London Weekend Television production for ITV. Stand-up comic Bob Mills specialised in a cynical view of life and its everyday objects, and in pastiches of popular culture icons. The show was set in Mills' home, which was dressed to resemble the home of Number Six  from "The Prisoner" and, in the final series, Steed's flat from "The Avengers". The first three series opened with a parody of "The Prisoner" while the fourth and final series was re-titled "Still In Bed With Medinner", and the opening sequence changed to be a parody of the classic "Avengers" Series Five title sequence. Mills wanders around his flat (actually a studio set), telling ludicrous fictional anecdotes about his showbusiness friends and reminiscing about his (fictional) time as a television producer. These stories are illustrated by genuine clips from the ITV archives, which, interspersed with Mills' own heavily  contrived commentaries and bizarre non-sequiturs, come together to reveal surreal fictional backstories. Original broadcasts and video releases. "In Bed with Medinner" ran from 1992 through to 1999, totalling 60 episodes: fifty-four 30-minute episodes and six 60-minute episodes. Cultural references. The title was a parody of Madonna's 1991 film "".