Eurotrash is a true stand-alone programme, never seen anything like it before or since, and re-watching selected highlights of this box set from Network genuinely made me wish I had the whole set to go through again. De Caunes and Gaultier being the ‘dream team’ of presenters, sort of a French Morcambe and Wise, but with Eric wearing a skirt/kilt. As a young teenager, this show was like a discovery session, I'm sure others learned and discovered as much as I did. All in all, it’s been great to see Eurotrash again, and to remember just what a strange little show it was.

When I meet Brits aged between 30 and 50, they tell me, “We weren’t allowed to watch Eurotrash, we had to hide behind the sofa while our parents were watching. The earlier years were definitely the best, or maybe it was my age, but the combination of De Caunes and Gaultier, with the hilarious voice overs by Maria McErlane, it was a winning combination. Anyone remember Lars von Trier tobogganing down his back garden in Copenhagen, or a freshly permed Pedro Almodóvar chewing over his 1993 film Kika on a lipstick-red sofa?The show was a key part of Channel 4's schedules between 1993 and 2004, pulling in millions of viewers in its peak.

Virtually everyone has heard of Bergman, they may have no clue of his films but they know they are high art gloominess. This newly unearthed clip, which you can watch in full below, coincides with the release of all 16 seasons of Eurotrash on DVD and digital download later this month.

Perhaps the one thing that was not only hilarious but really made Eurotrash stand out was the voice overs of the guests, latterly provided by Kate Robbins who would dub over guests in UK regional accents. But it also featured regular segments with a variety of well-known celebrities, including a number of prominent art-house directors. Each segment was voiced by Kate Robbins and Johnny Daukes who provided their own unique form of narration with heavily stereotypical regional British accents. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Minutes With is a podcast that has a variety of different shows that cover all aspects of movies, music, video games, television and live events.

This follows a black-and-white skit, knowingly framed as an idiot’s guide to JLG, in which Eurotrash host Antoine de Caunes goes full Belmondo. When Rapido came to an end after a few seasons, producer Peter Stuart and I were asked to pitch a weekly magazine show. It’s honestly like the subtitling was done by a bot, the kind of quality you might expect from Youtube live captions. These films are not ranked by the best as that would have scrambled my mind, but it is a pretty good general guide to what's out there and it encompasses genres and sub-genres such as Horror, erotica, sexploitation, Nazisploitation, women in prison, Giallos, zombies, cannibals, Emanuelle, nunsploitation. As happy in the gutter as I am in the arthouse, I have put aside my Bresson DVDs to bring you the Top 50 Eurotrash films.Best described as a surrealist late night magazine programme with nudity and lots of Germans, Eurotrash was essential viewing, mainly because you couldn’t believe what you were seeing. Let two devil-may-care Frenchmen take you gently by the hand and lead you into a surreal alternative world of weird wonders, celebrity interviews, sexy supermodels - and more smut than you can shake a stick at! When Network are capable of giving us lovingly crafted releases like The Strange World of Gurney Slade, Stingray and Space 1999, it’s just a real disappointment to see this being pushed out the door with what appears to be the bare minimum of effort.