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2020 looking a bit better with ‘The Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown’ on the holiday horizon!
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus…even in 2020! The Vicar Of Dibley, the classic comedy starring Dawn French, will return with The Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown, a series of lockdown specials as part of the BBC’s festive holiday line-up this year. Created and written by Four Weddings And A Funeral writer Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, the series of three 10-minute […]
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Study shows you can’t just turn it off and back on again as ‘The IT Crowd’ achieves the most laughs per minute!
Full disclosure, I didn’t need to see results of a study to tell me that The IT Crowd had the most ‘laughs per minute’ in a recent survey conducted by OnBuy.com. The U.K. online marketplace surveyed 2,325 fans and asked them to name the top 10 funniest British sitcoms of all time. That said, I will quietly […]
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Bear with….’Call Me Kat’ with Mayim Bialik coming January 2021.
Call Me Kat, based on the brilliant British situation comedy, Miranda, is headed to Fox in….(bear with)…January 2021. The new Jim Parsons/Mayim Bialik produced series, stars Bialik as Kat, a 39-year-old woman who struggles to prove to her mother that you don’t need to have everything you want to be happy, and uses the money her parents had […]
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‘Death in Paradise’ adds a new slate of potential victims/suspects for S10
COVID-19 be damned! Death in Paradise has announced a new slate of victims and/or suspects vying for the attention of DI Neville Parker as he returns to ‘paradise’ and the island of Saint Marie for series 10. As the series returned to filming recently following the mandated UK government shutdown of the entire production community and in […]
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Anthony Horowitz talks ‘Moonflower Murders’ and much more for DMA Arts & Letters Live
The brilliant mind palace of New York Times best-selling author Anthony Horowitz is hard at work, once again, with the forthcoming release of Moonflower Murders. The masterful sequel to his worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, once again, features Susan Ryeland, who is retired from her publishing career and running a small hotel on a Greek island. That mind palace will be on full […]
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EYNTK about ‘Roadkill’ before tonight’s 2nd installment on PBS!
The 2nd installment of Roadkill airs tonight at 9pET/8pCT on PBS as part of Masterpiece. As is usually the case with British dramas, there are a significant number of ensemble cast members in Roadkill surrounding Hugh Laurie that might have you scratching your head saying ‘where do I know that person’ including Ophelia Lovibond (W1A, Elementary, Rocketman) as Susan Laurence, Patricia Lodge (Rumpole of the Bailey, Miranda) as Lady Roche, Caroline Lee-Johnson (Chef!) as Bella Gayle, Pip Torrens (Poldark) as Joe Lapidus and Kate Lamb (Call the Midwife) as Lindsay Storm.
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British acting legend, Geoffrey Palmer, passes away at 93. RIP, Geoffrey.
From Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin to Ben Parkinson in Butterflies to Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, Geoffrey Palmer has been a constant fixture in our collective British comedy lives for the better part of four decades with these three series alone. Palmer, who had numerous guest roles in series such as Doctor Who, Inspector Morse, Blackadder Goes Forth, Poirot, Ashes to Ashes and Rev, had perhaps his most well-known guest starring role as Dr Price in “The Kipper and the Corpse” episode of Fawlty Towers in 1979. With a celebrated career that spanned seven decades, Palmer, who turned 93 years young in June of this year, passed away peacefully at his home on Thursday, 5 November.
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Friday Funny — ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’, tonight on PBS’ Great Performances
Just like Auntie Mame talked of the world ‘needing a little Christmas’, it seems like the world’s ability to make it through the remaining weeks of 2020 is going to hinge on ‘needing a little funny’ very soon. PBS has just that tonight with the premiere of One Man, Two Guvnors on Great Performances.
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Sir Lenny Henry, a.k.a. ‘Chef’, to enter the world of children’s book writing!
You could easily argue that the character of Gareth Blackstock, the chef/owner of the two Michelin star, Le Château Anglais in the British situation comedy, Chef, was defined as much by a simple but brilliantly written three-minute tirade against an individual dining at the restaurant for his indiscriminate use of salt before tasting his dinner as he […]
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