As Planet Earth begins to slowly emerge from almost 3 months of ‘sheltering at home’ and, if you’re like me, you find yourself wanting to travel more than ever and living in the ‘you can’t travel so all you want to do is travel’ nightmare. As airlines and hotels attempt to get back to where […]
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Watch the Atkinson bit that fellow undergrad and then-aspiring comedian Richard Curtis saw before deciding to pursue screenwriting instead.
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Revisiting the institutional, cultural phenomenon of Comic Relief is a perfect way to kick off our new weekly feature on Fridays, From the Vault.
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When Dibley lost its verger on Wednesday, the world lost the talents of the brilliant Emma Chambers. Best known for her role as Alice Horton (née Tinker) in Vicar of Dibley and Honey Thacker in the Richard Curtis film, Notting Hill, Chambers died of natural causes on Wednesday at the far too young age of 53. Chambers, who […]
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I’m afraid loyal Tellyspotting readers are going to have to indulge me a bit this morning as there is no joy in Mudville (or Notting Hill for that matter) following the news that Gerry O’Brien, the Irish landlord/pioneering pint puller that has been running the area’s world-famous, flower-adorned Churchill Arms pub for the past 32 years is hanging up his […]
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Red Nose Day USA has secured the brilliance of Craig Ferguson to host the 2nd annual fundraising special to be broadcast May 26 on NBC. This is excellent news given that I’m still bitter over that fact that the former host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson was not tagged as David Letterman’s replacement when he retired […]
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It seems like ever since that little British period drama we call Downton Abbey decided to call it a day after the upcoming sixth series, every series pitch, every series commission, every subsequent press announcement starts out by billing the proposed series as, “…the next Downton Abbey“. The most recent drama that has been tagged as the […]
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Laura Carmichael, who plays the seemingly forever-to-be-depressed Lady Edith in Downton Abbey, will play maid Henrietta in Madame Bovary, the new film adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s 19th century classic, alongside her Downton Abbey crazy playboy uncle co-star Paul Giamatti (Sideways) and Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill). Besides his performance in Notting Hill, Ifans is most recently […]
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When it comes to the never-ending comparisons between the BBC/PBS version of Sherlock and its American counterpart, CBS’ Elementary, the old adage of imitation is the sincerest form of flattery rings very true. When Elementary hit the air, Sherlock had already been a staple in people’s homes around the world for two years. The imitation/coindicence […]
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I know I need to get past this but hearing of the series 2 plans for CBS’ Elementary and now seeing images, it really is becoming more and more like a U.S. version of their BBC counterpart than the law allows. First, it was envisioned as a 21st century adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. Hmmm…wonder where […]
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