Gorden Kaye was superb as Rene Artois in ‘Allo ‘Allo, a broad sitcom taking swipes at everyone involved in World War II. The character has outrageous affairs with his waitresses, tries to understand what on earth the English are going on about and does his best to keep the Germans from realising how flexible his loyalty actually is. Regardless of ( Read more... )

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Last year, the National Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary. It's a hugely renowned venue and esteemed company, held in the same high regard as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Pretty much all of the great actors have performed in and for the National at some point during their careers. To celebrate its momentous anniversary, stars from the past ( Read more... )

So the good Doctor has been and gone again, we've had another series of Doctor Who, and overall I must say I liked what I saw. Below the cut I’ll go into more detail, chock full of spoilers naturally.

( My thoughts on the most recent series of Doctor Who. Warning, very spoilery )

Argh, time keeps getting squished and I never seem to have enough time to write, fiction or blogs. My job is crazy-busy but I'm enjoying it. I'm trying to get my pension sorted - getting the benefits from my previous pension scheme into my new one. Also trying to organise the visual tech rota for church for Christmas time, need to get that sent out ( Read more... )

So I've never read the Hellblazer comics, but I know who John Constantine is, I know the gist of him, and I'm already a fan of actor Matt Ryan thanks to my thing for short-lived show Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour. I also like Lucy Griffith thanks to the great work she did with terrible scripts on BBC's Robin Hood series. And this trailer for ( Read more... )

It's getting closer to Christmas and my goodness I feel busy! I've been wrapping presents and writing cards so that I could send off my family's presents this morning and take a bag of presents to one set on in-laws tomorrow as well as post cards to people. There's been wonderful Christmas parties - a mountain of Chinese takeaway and homemade ( Read more... )

Watching this song from The Big Bang Theory has made me smile a lot recently. A sweet geek love song and it feels incredibly heartfelt too. Anthony and I watched it together and agreed that we'd sing it for each other. A wonderful moment :) I hope you guys enjoy it too, it's definitely worth a watch.

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So my brain has decided to become thoroughly occupied by soap operas and by werewolves. It's been a heck of a couple of weeks.

You may recall a while back I talked about how I suddenly got emotional and obsessive about the Brendan/Ste pairing in the British soap Hollyoaks. Well now it's happened with American soaps, which is bizarre as they're ( Read more... )

It's been an extremely odd week, emotionally. For some reason, I got incredibly caught up in the exit storyline of a soap opera character. I don't watch soap operas. It's been very confusing.

There's a UK soap opera called Hollyoaks, famed for a revolving cast who are mostly in their twenties and extremely good-looking, but many are not, shall we ( Read more... )