Actual sports acted out in a weird and slightly odd manner? Actual depictions of teachers abusing students on children's television? Well, that's basically the two parts of this episode...

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I can't think of anything particularly interesting to say so all the stuff is below the cut.

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More thoughts because it brings me much happiness during stressful times.

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Some more thoughts, this time about Episode 2...if I can remember why I wrote them in the first place...
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So, clearly I have many thoughts about this and feel obliged to share them. Out of sheer boredom if nothing else. Spoiler warnings and such like, all beneath the cut below. These are thoughts in a non-ordered and slightly chaotic sort of way mostly.

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BBC have released their preview and the episodes will be streaming on Monday on iPlayer.

If people weren't addressed by name in the preview, I honestly wouldn't have had a clue who was who (and as it is, I know who Darrell and Gwen are but no-one else) but I am pleased to see that there is more diversity than would have been in Blyton's books. It ( Read more... )

Sometimes it is just fascinating how people interpret things so differently to one another. A bit more information about the TV show reboot of Malory Towers is floating about, including some limited casting on imdb. (p.s - It greatly amuses me when people are credited only as "sleeping girl", "man in queue", "person in ugly dress")

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After briefly discussing the new book and some of the diversity in it, I'm back to discuss some of the things going on around the casting and alterations of the Malory Towers stage production.

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In a previous post where I was laughing at illustrations, I mentioned I would return to discuss the reboot that Malory Towers is undergoing. So that's what this is - the first part of a discussion at least.

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There's been some stuff in the news recently about the unexpected revival that Malory Towers is receiving courtesy of the new book, the stage production that opens this week, and the CBBC show which will air in 2020 ( Read more... )