Dead Famous (novel) cult of celebrity brought on by simply being on television and says in the credits that "without [the Big Brother contestants] this novel would not have been written". Bantam Press's page on Dead Famous Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (2001) is a comedy/whodunit novel by Ben Elton in which ratings for a reality TV show, very similar to "Big Brother", rocket when a housemate is murdered. Unlike a typical whodunnit, Elton does not reveal the identity of the victim until around halfway into the book. The novel is about a murder that occurs on a reality television programme called "House
The Famous Five (novel series) Beginning in September 1985 a series of monthly Comic Magazine titles "Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine" were published. Each issue published a full length illustrative comic book story adapted from Famous 5 Novels. The series came to end in the 1990s. The Five inspired the Comic Strip parody "Five Go Mad in Dorset" and its sequel "Five Go Mad on Mescalin", in which the characters express sympathies with Nazi Germany and opposition to the Welfare State, homosexuals, immigrants and Jews, in an extremely broad parody not so much of Blyton but of wider perceived 1950s prejudices. The parodies were deliberately set