Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Friday, 8 December 2017

RIP, continued.

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Anthony Harvey (1930-2917), aged 87.   Harvey directed one of our perennial favourites THE LION IN WINTER in 1968, I remember seeing it...
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Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Strictly finalists ?

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Our 2017 season of  STRICTLY COME DANCING  is coming to a close, with the semi-final this weekend. Here are three sizzlers from last week...
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Saturday, 25 November 2017

Period pieces 1: Miss Marple / Mapp & Lucia

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An investment for those long winter nights is a reasonably priced boxset of all 12 BBC Miss Marple stories featuring Joan Hickson as the in...
Wednesday, 22 November 2017

RIP, continued ...

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Rodney Bewes (1937-2017), aged 79.   Distinctive-looking British actor, best known for THE LIKELY LADS (1964-1966) and WHATEVER HAPPENE...
Monday, 23 October 2017

The Crown

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Slight reservations about the massive Netflix series THE CROWN , Series 1 is now a 4 dvd pack (10 one-hour long episodes), as they film S...
Saturday, 5 August 2017

RIP, continued ....

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Barbara Cook (1927-2017),  aged 89.  Barbara was one of the legendary Broadway divas and remained much-loved to the end. She starred in s...
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Tuesday, 4 July 2017

'Gross Indecency' at the BFI ...

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July 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of a landmark in LGBT rights - the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales (no...
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Saturday, 24 June 2017

A treat: Lee and Dirk in The Vision, 1987

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A thousand thanks to Colin for finding this - one of my Holy Grails - a 1987 BBC film with two of my top favourites, which was only ever ...
Thursday, 8 June 2017

Eighties nights ...

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The Jewel In The Crown / Your Cheatin' Heart / Wish Me Luck How did I ever miss THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN back in 1984? Well, I was...
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Thursday, 1 June 2017

RIP, continued ....

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Roy Barraclough (1935-2017), aged 81. Sad indeed to read of the passing of another British television legend,  Roy Barraclough, from the g...
Monday, 1 May 2017

People we like: some current British actresses ....

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We ran a post the other week on some current British actors we like (see below), so here are some of the current British actresses wowing u...
Monday, 10 April 2017

People We Like - continued ... some British actors

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Douglas Hodge , and as Grimes in the current DECLINE AND FALL . (He was a terrific Zaza in LE CAGE AUX FOLLES a few years bac...
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Monday, 3 April 2017

FEUD ?

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WHEN is this going to be screened here in the UK? The word is good and it looks super, with Susan Sarandon an effective Bette Davis and ...
Monday, 20 March 2017

RIP, continued ...

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Chuck Berry (1926-2017), aged 90. Indeed one of the pioneers of rock'n'roll whose electric rhythm'n'blues guitar paved the...
Saturday, 28 January 2017

RIP, continued .... first of the new year

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John Hurt (1940-2017), aged 77. Sir John has departed after a long battle with cancer, but was working as busy as ever (he is in the cur...
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