The Wrong Mans Rule #1 – After witnessing a horrific car crash on a desolate country road, never ever answer the dead driver’s ringing mobile. If only Sam Pinkett had read rule #1. Blessed with both laziness and lack of ambition, Sam (Mathew Baynton) spends his days as a lowly Town Planning and Noise Guidance […]
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There are some things that exist on the Internets that need no introduction. Doctor Puppet happens to be close to, if not at, the top of the list. Brooklyn based fan and animator Alisa Stern is behind the brilliant Doctor Puppet series, which follows the adventures of the Doctor(s) rendered in stop motion. The stop […]
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Overall, unfortunately, it was a night to say how much an honor it was to just be nominated as all of the British representation in this years Primetime Emmy Awards fell prey to some pretty stiff competition from the likes of Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men, Homeland, HBO’s entries of Behind […]
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Being at the Venetian in Las Vegas several years ago prior to the Super Bowl and seeing that I could place a wager on the first person to fumble in the great game, I came to the realization that, in America, you could pretty much bet on anything. Apparently, this mentality has finally crept across […]
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Overshadowed just a bit by that little series getting ready to premiere this Sunday we know as Downton Abbey, Mr. Selfridge, starring Jeremy Piven and Katherine Kelly, which airs on ITV1 in the UK and PBS in the States as part of the Masterpiece series, will return in 2014 with 10 new episodes. Based upon […]
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Nearly 40 years ago, in 1974, in the early post-Monty Python’s Flying Circus era, a charming little one-off special, Romance with a Double Bass was written by John Cleese, Connie Booth and Bill Owen. Unfortunately, it is light years apart from the previous Cleese/Booth collaboration of Fawlty Towers opting for a steady diet of physical […]
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You can already drink wine like the Crawleys. Thanks to Marks and Spencer, everyone can now have lips as red and hands as soft as Lady Mary. Could Grey be the new Black? And, now, you can decorate your house to look just like the imposing stately home, too. Two shades of grey paint, Empire […]
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Unfortunately, this won’t make life any easier given that Sherlock still probably won’t premiere on the BBC and PBS until 2014, but thanks to the generous folks over at PBS’ Masterpiece series, it’s just about the next best thing unless you happen to re-watch series one and two anytime between now and then. Many have […]
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Just when you thought television drama couldn’t possibly get any better, it does…and actually did with Monday’s announcement by ITV that Endeavour, the crime drama prequel to the Inspector Morse series, has begun production on series 2. Shaun Evans returns in the lead role of young Morse, with Roger Allam (The Thick of It, Parade’s […]
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On Thursday, 24 September, when danger calls…they happened to answer. Sam and Phil are two well-meaning idiots, a.k.a. The Wrong Mans, and they’re entangled in a world of crime, conspiracy and corruption. Co-creators/writers/stars James Corden (Gavin & Stacey, One Man Two Guvnors) and Mathew Baynton (Spy, Horrible Histories, Peep Show) start the day out as […]
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