The 2016 Eurovision Song Contest is one for the books with the Ukraine being crowned the winner in Stockholm, Sweden last night. Finishing the night with 534 points at the Song Contest Grand Finale, it was Jamala singing “1944” that put it atop the final Eurovision juried standings while coming in second in the public vote, beaten only […]
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Every once in awhile, there are those moments in time that you come to realize the Internets are a good thing. A perfect example surfaced this week, hidden deep amongst the endless cat videos, was Tom Hiddleston, fresh off his brilliant appearance in The Night Manager, appearing on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Hiddleston (The […]
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Perhaps the coolest show on the planet is BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, which premiered on BBC radio in 1942. Created by Roy Plomley, the format is about as simple as you can get. A guest ‘castaway’ is invited by host Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to […]
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Although the actual event was a bit anti-climatic, now that Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes have actually walked down the aisle, we can actually begin to focus on a few other Anglophile bits and bobs. Anti-climatic only in the sense that it took the better part of three episodes to determine if they were going […]
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With immediate thoughts dancing in my personal mind palace of the popular Christmas song, We Need a Little Christmas (right this very moment), which had its origination in the Jerry Herman Broadway musical, Mame, we bring you more Patrick Stewart gold this holiday season. As the calendar ticks off each day bringing us closer and closer to 25 December […]
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Ever the eternal dreamer, David Brent is still trying to launch a music career. A decade removed from his stint as manager of the Slough branch of Wernham Hogg Paper Merchants, Brent started a new career as a talent manager in the music industry, trying to help urban solo artist Dom Johnson, played by UK rapper […]
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With Downton Abbey coming to a close (don’t panic if you’re in States, you still have January 2016 to look forward to!), the final orchestral recordings for the unforgettable music soundtrack were recorded this past Tuesday at London’s Abbey Road Studios. Thanks to the fact that they live streamed on Periscope for all the world to see […]
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Katherine Kelly, who charmed the ‘you know what’ off of Harry Gordon Selfridge for the last several years as Lady Mae Loxley in Mr. Selfridge, will turn her attention to a live on Christmas Day in the UK, TV adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound Of Music. Joining Kelly will be her Mr. Selfridge co-star, Kara Tointon, who played […]
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Premiering last night at the Toronto Film Festival, I Saw the Light follows Hank Williams’ sudden rise to fame and struggle with addiction before his tragic death in 1953 at the age of 29 with Westminster-born Tom Hiddleston, star of The Avengers, Thor, War Horse, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and the BBC’s Hollow Crown […]
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When your day job of filming series 5 of Call the Midwife begins to wind down in the not-too-distant future, just what does one do to occupy your new found free time? For Helen George, who plays Nurse Beatrix ‘Trixie’ Franklin, aside from running in the recent London Marathon, you sign up for the forthcoming […]
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