John Cleese (Basil Fawlty) and Michael Gwynn (Lord Melbury). Photo: BBC Stay with me here….as I was watching Village of the Damned recently on Turner Classic Movies, I noticed a very familiar face from ‘the village’. Not immediately able to put a name with a face, I did a quick search and saw what was […]
Monty Python P1s joined KERA at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff to singalong to perhaps the funniest movie of all time, 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.'
October 6, 1974. The day that charted the course of British comedy in the U.S. for decades to come. Thanks to a ground-breakingly brilliant decision by then KERA President/CEO Bob Wilson and Program Director Ron Devillier, the legend of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had its American beginning on KERA/Dallas as part of one seemingly uneventful […]
When DI Neville Parker’s time on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie as head of the Honoré Police Department came to a close, the search was on once again for a new DI to solve what seems to be an endless array of weekly murders on the tiny fictional picturesque island of Saint Marie. DI Parker’s time […]
Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Photo: Playground Television (UK) Ltd When two-time Booker Prize-winning author, Hilary Mantel passed away in September 2022 at the all-too-young age of 70, she was consulting on the television adaptation of her most recent 2020 novel, “The Mirror and the Light”, which was […]
