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Things get real in the UK as Daleks called out to enforce self-isolation and social distancing!
You know COVID-19 is some serious stuff if the UK government resorts to calling out the Daleks to be the enforcer of their social distancing and self-isolation policy. The Doctor Who villain was spotted by a number of ‘sheltering at home’ North Yorkshire residents patrolling the streets of Robin Hood’s Bay, in North Yorkshire, telling residents […]
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Fire up the Quattro folks, series creator confirms there is more ‘Life on Mars’ headed our way!
Looking back, it’s been a couple of years since John Simm let it be known that he’d be keen on a possible Life on Mars revival. At the time, it reminded me about the greatness of the series starring Philip Glenister as the ultimate old-school DCI Gene Hunt and John Simm as DI Sam Tyler. Primarily […]
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The Queen tells UK (and the world) ‘we will succeed’ in rare address
In a rare, televised national broadcast, The Queen addressed the nation earlier on Sunday to assure not only the UK but, in a sense, the entire world that ‘we will meet again’. Speaking from Windsor Castle, it was only the fifth time the monarch has given such a speech in her 68-year reign (February 1991, First Gulf War; death of Diana, Princess of Wales, September 1997; death of the Queen Mother, April 2002; Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, June 2012).
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PBS’ Drama Sunday tells the story of ‘The Windermere Children’
Full disclosure, I had never heard the story of the Windermere children before now. This little-told true story of the young people rescued from concentration camps and sent to Britain is not only poignant and powerful, it’s hopeful. By the end of the film, I hope everyone has a box or two (or three) of tissues […]
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Happy 80th, Dame Penelope Keith!
Today is Penelope Keith’s 80th birthday. With a long public television history dating back to the days of Good Neighbors and To the Manor Born to her efforts serving as host for PBS’ The Funny Ladies of British Comedy and More Funny Ladies of British Comedy and right through to her more recent presenting efforts in the numerous […]
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PC Penhale and Doc Martin stress the importance of social distancing in Portwenn and around the world.
If you won’t take the advice from anyone in your immediate inner or outer circle regarding social distancing and some form of sheltering at home, maybe PC Penhale, Dr. Martin Ellingham and the entire cast of Doc Martin will convince you of the extreme necessity of staying 2 meters from everyone in order to stop the spread […]
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Words of wisdom from The Doctor to get us through ‘social distancing’ and ‘sheltering at home’
It’s not out of the ordinary that in difficult times you turn to The Doctor for advice. As Planet Earth seems particularly off its axis at the moment as the world is struggling to cope with the fallout of social distancing and varying degrees of a sheltering at home lockdown due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, leave […]
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Q&A with ‘Sanditon’s Crystal Clarke as she reveals her hope for Miss Lambe if there were to be a 2nd series and much more…
One of the glaring downsides of not having the benefit of a second series as of yet of the British period drama, Sanditon, isn’t the fact that it didn’t adhere to a traditional Jane Austen ending but that there wasn’t near enough time during series 1 to fully develop the character of Georgiana Lambe, played by […]
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