Seems a bit more appropriate this year given that the XXX Olympiad Summer Games get going in full swing today in London that we take a step back and honor those events that, unfortunately, won’t make it to telly yet again this year. Much like the News and Documentary Emmy categories never get their day […]
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The trumpet is sounding high on the hill, although it’s not saying Time for Teletubbies, Time for Teletubbies this time around. It is time, however, for the London 2012 Olympics which are set to kick off with the opening ceremonies on Friday, 27, July. As happens every Olympics, no matter what the locale, there are […]
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While the BBC’s foreign language broadcasting service had it’s beginning in 1938 from Broadcasting House in Portland Place, that building was bombed during the Second World War and the service re-located to Bush House in 1941. Now, it returns to where it all began, Broadcasting House with the rest of the BBC News division. The […]
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At 82, Patricia Routledge, the star of Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has not slowed one bit. Following up her 1995 series-ending role as Hyacinth, then moving on to play the crime-solving Hetty Wainthropp, Ms. Routledge continued a long, storied career in both film and musical theatre, including her most recent role as […]
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What would the Dowager Countess say? Ok, while I don’t profess to have ever seen an episode of Geordie Shore, the British adaptation of the U.S. series, Jersey Shore, I have heard of it so, of course, that makes me an expert, right? Set in and around Newcastle Upon Tyne and South Shields, the series […]
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Longtime British comedy fan and faithful tellyspotting reader, Lisa Cox, has compiled a brilliant list that leaves the likes of Jeff Foxworthy in the rearview mirror not knowing what hit him. No matter what corner of the globe you find yourself in, I’m banking on the fact that you are a big British comedy fan […]
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The greatness of The Simpsons have finally jumped on the Benedict Cumberbatch bandwagon. Seems as though the actor, known forever to all of us as the ultimate consulting detective, Sherlock landed a voice role in the animated sitcom following a chance meeting, reported In Style magazine. “I was at a meeting in the same place […]
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Why is it that the good ones always leave us too soon? Lonesome George who was believed to be approximately 100 years of age and listed in The Guinness Book of Records as ‘the loneliest animal on the planet’, has died. Lonesome George was ‘discovered’ in 1972 and had become a symbol of Ecuador’s Galapagos […]
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Sometimes you just find things that you can’t help but share like this from The Huffington Post… Fawlty Towers Motel Becomes Naked Resort To Bolster Bottom Line When times get tough, the tough get naked. At least that’s what a Florida motel owner hopes, as he turns his 32-room property into a potential magnet for […]
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Full disclosure, I have been a huge Wallace & Gromit fan from the beginning. A product of the British animation studio, Aardman Studios, and the brilliant mind of Nick Park, the characters are made from moulded plasticine modeling clay on metal armatures and filmed with stop motion clay animation. I hate to reduce it to […]
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