Patrica Routledge (1929-2025)

The death has announced of the actor Patricia Routledge.Best known for role as the social climbing Hycinth inatrippom KeepinI I.g Up Appearances. Other TV work included Coronation Street and Steptoe & Son. Patricia Routledge R.

A Call to duty

It has been announced that a live action film of the Cajj of Duty video games will be made.The pu lisher of the games Activision have signed a deal with Paramount importance Pictures to turn the games into films. No further details are known.

TV review: Atomic

Sky Showcase 9 pm Thursday Alfie Allan plays a drugs runner who gets caught up in a situation that is above his head. When traveling inthe North Africa desert Allan's character finds himself travelling with a supposedly reformer Islamic terrorist. Filled with outbursts of violence as you would expect coming from the same production company as Gangs of London.

Best of : Th Protecter

The only Gerry Anderson production no to comic from the Science fiction genre. Robert Vaughan Starks as Harry Rule member of a freelance cime fihhter. Herte are the 5 bet episodes. 1. Quinn Peter Vughn ply th hea of an army of soldiers of fortune.. 2. Bag miss Hrry and the others try to be rescue a kidnapped heiress but the kidnapper seem to one step ahead 3. A Case for the Right Harry gets mixed up with Italian neo Nazis when hired tk transport a briefcase. 4. Route 27 After Harry is found nearly dead in a rubbish dump, he attempts to bread up drug smuggling in Denmark. 5. One an One naked One Harry and the others try to rescue a captured spy but all is not it seem.

Really Garg?

ITV has announced that Gary Linewaker's host role for them is as a host kf reality show. Bucket itppp bit of a come down Gary?

New Bond scribe

it has been announced that Steven Knight will be writing the new James Bond film. Knight best known for the TV show Period Blinders. The new film will be out in a couple of years.

Four bet Supes

The next Fan Tour has beat Superheroes at th box officwe

Kenneth Colley 1937-2025

The death has been announced of Kenneth Colley. The actor had a wide range of credits including appearing opposite John Thaw in both of his famed cop shows ,The Sweeny and Inspection Morse. On the big screen he appeared to Monty Python's Life of Brian the Clint Eastwood Spy thriller Firefox.s Kenneth aColley R.I. P Jul

The power of Brad

Brad Pitt has seen his latest movie F1 open to one 👡st grossing weekends. Andpd Formula One has littk interest in the US.

Mot the woman withe hat

Tonight ITV is showering another repeat of Veda. Please no more!!!!

Too young for quiz shows

A common occurrence on quiz shows is contestant saying the too young to know the answer. My advice DO SOME RESEARCH!!!K

Billie takes over

in a move that will anger sections of Doctor Who fandom Billie Piper hass taken over the role of The Doctor.Form 2005 Piper has played sthe roller of Rose Tyle Given speculators on the show's future swho knows how long she has got.

Lorraine cur to size

ir seem thar no one is safe from the budget cuts affecting the TV industry ar the moments. Even a bif name as Lorraine Kelly, she has seen her once hour long show cut in half with what was the opening half hour replaced by an extended Good Morning Before. Bit of a comedian for some one who was given a life time achievement award at last year's TV BAFTAs.

Behold the Palaace

Crystal Palace, beat Manchester City to win the FA Cup for the first time. They won 1-0 with a City penny x being saved.bmisc

Katherine open air experience

This year's TV BAFTAs are on tonight. One of the shows up for prizes is Rivals, the screen version of the steamy Jilly Cooper novel. The final episode featured an outdoor sex scenes. One of the actors involved was Katherine Parkinson. Another show Katherine starred in Away we Go, where her screen mother was played by Allison Steadman who had own infamouas outdoor sex scene in Dennis Potter's The Singing Dectecvie in 1986.

Fan wrs

A curious fever h truk pop culture. On ?YouTub fn o different idl ring .

Jean Marsh (1934-2025)

 You death has been announced of Jean Marsh. Not only she starred in period drama Upstairs, Downstairs but she also co-creted  the Show Eileen Atkins. Jean played 3 different characters in the original run of Doctor Who. Her film work included The Eagle Has Landed, Return to Oz and Willow.

Jean Marsh R. I. P.

The dead horse returns

 Tonight on ITV1 sees the start of another series of Celebrity Big Brother. It along with the nun  celeb version  have survived two cancellations. After being axed by Channel 4 it was brought by Channel 5 until it was axed Vodafone time  But ITV brought it back. How it will last is anyone guess.

Are these suitable questions for thesevpeople?

 I have noticed an number forgiven born contestants Bob Pointless. Given British cented

questions this has to be a disadvantage.M

Prepare for doomsday

 Some fast announcements have been made for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan return to their X-Men roles of Charles Xavier and Magento. There will be more cast updates soon.

TV review - Gangs of London series 3

 The brutal crime saga is back. Starting off with mother and son left to die in a blazing car wreck this show is not for the faint of heart.. With a plot abour contained drugs. The next few weeks will be one he'll of a ride.

The chain is still on

 The trailer for the new Brad Pitt film F1 has been released. The film is set in the world of formula one racing. The trailer plays out to the Fleetwood Mac song The Chain which as many people know was used as the theme for the BBC coverage of the sport. F1 comes out later in the year.

Matches coming your way

 The BBC has announced a deal to cover the matches of the Scottish,Welsh and Northern Ireland international football Ts marks a big deal for the BBC.. 

Laughing at games

 The death of Hebry Kel!G brings to mind the Show he is most famous for,Game for a Laugh.. Co-pres with Jeremy Beadle, Matthew Kelly and Sarah Kennedy, One edition features a man going up a river in a noticed batth tube. A male nudist beauty contesr. The traditional sport of shin kicking and in a foreshadow of Beatles a  woman. Sees her husband crusj another person's car.

Hebry Kelly  R. I. P.

Flash has been taken

 As I have written before an number of subjects in the jackpot round of Pointless seems be ignored again and again. Yesterday however one was picked,Flash Gordon was picked. However the contestants answers were all wrong.

Forty years of the square

 This week marks forty years since the start of BBC soap opera Eastenders. It has seen storylines centred teenage pregnancy,divorce, AIDS and murder. Nowadays Eastenders  is no longer the  ratings titan it was with some presiding the show's demise. We shall see in another forty years time.

Awful quiz show answer 13-02-2025

 On the most recent edition of Pointless contestants were asked to name an national team that played the Football World Cup two or more times. The first contestant gave the answer Charlton Athletic which is a local club team in London.

Another has been chosen

 A while back I wrote about how an number of questions were being avoided. Couple of weeks later one about the Duke of Wellington was picked. Now Belgian Jazz and Pop was chosen to no great success.

Awful quiz show answer 27-01-2025

 On the recent edition of Pointless contestants were asked to identify either a Womble or Muppet. One contestant said the shame of Drummer Muppet was Monster. The right answer is of course Animal.

Mick getss thes crystale

Mick has been awarded the the Crime Writers Association Crystal Dagger for lifetime achievement in crime writing. Herron is best known for the Slough House series of novels in which a group of disgra uced MI5 agents team up to foil threats to the nations security. Other winners of the prize  include Lee Child, Fredrick Foeysth and Ruth Rendell.v

Stop the pretence

 EVERYTHING ON SCREEN IN THE HE LION KING FILM CAMP FROM A COMPUTER, SO STOP COMING IT LIVE ACTION!!!K