“A towel, [The Guide] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Not only does it have great practical value, a towel has immense psychological value” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Today, H2G2 fans are marking the 22nd anniversary since the all-too-early passing of creator/writer, Douglas […]
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From the Department of If I Didn’t Before, Now I Truly Believe Benedict Cumberbatch Can Do Anything, comes news out of the Cannes Film Festival that the former Sherlock (and most everything else on Planet Earth) star will portray folk legend Pete Seeger in an upcoming Bob Dylan biopic.
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Marking the 40th anniversary of one of the greats of British comedy, Royal Mail has released a collection of 12 special stamps celebrating the brilliance of Blackadder. Eight of the stamps will feature some of the series’ most classic moments with four being reserved to track the evolution of Edmund Blackadder from series 1 through Blackadder Goes […]
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Two former downstairs residents of Downton Abbey have landed roles in upcoming productions over the next year. Fresh off spending time in Happy Valley, Siobhan Finneran, who you’ll recognize as Downton Abbey’s resident mean girl, O’Brien, in the first three seasons of Downton Abbey, joins the cast of The Damned which recently finished filming in Iceland. Described as a ‘tense […]
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After spending the better part of six+ series on Line of Duty dodging the possibility that, as Superintendent Ted Hastings, he was the ‘elusive H’, Adrian Dunbar plays a former police detective coaxed out of retirement to serve as a consultant on a complex murder case that has been plaguing a former protege in Ridley. Alex Ridley hasn’t been sitting […]
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Looking for a new ‘local’ leading up to this Saturday’s Coronation of King Charles III? Not to worry, the trusty blue and red supermarket will be opening a pop-up Tesco boozer to celebrate Chazza’s coronation. The limited-time pop-up on the site of The Castle pub in Farringdon, appropriately re-named The King in the Castle, will open for […]
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With filming set to begin this week on this years Call the Midwife Christmas special, Stephen McGann (Dr. Patrick Turner) joked recently with the press that he was certain the sun would come out to mark the occasion. “We literally start next week with Christmas again,” he said. “And I guarantee you, the sun will come out and […]
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Whether it was Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Later with Jools Holland, BBC Sessions, Ready Steady Go, From the Basement or something called Guitar Heroes at the BBC, the channel was home to some unbelievable musical performances in the 70’s. Commissioned by none other than Sir David Attenborough, who was actually the […]
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Let me just go ahead and start with the following observation and get it out of the way. There’s NO WAY Blackadder is 40 years old, is there? As the series ran from 1983-1989, 2023 marks the 40th anniversary of the Richard Curtis/Rowan Atkinson/Ben Elton series so, it must be so. To celebrate, UK’s Gold Channel […]
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Today, William Shakespeare would have been a mere 459 years old. While his true birthdate remains a mystery (he was baptized on April 26, 1564), it is generally celebrated on April 23, the same day England’s patron saint is celebrated with a laundry list of ‘happenings’, St. George’s Day. It was a mere 407 years ago […]
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