During a round on Pointless a contestant answered the clue played the Phantom in Phantom of the Oprea with Michael Ball. The answer is of course Michael Crawford..
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
No marriage of the Fox and the Mouse
The sale of 20th Century Fox to the Walt Disney will not be going ahead. If it had gone ahead it would have seen the merger of 2 biggest film libraries in Hollywood. One group of people who will be disappointed will be Star Wars fans considered that a Star Wars film is not Star Wars film unless it has the Fox fanfare, it has been missing since Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The sale of 20th Century Fox to the Walt Disney will not be going ahead. If it had gone ahead it would have seen the merger of 2 biggest film libraries in Hollywood. One group of people who will be disappointed will be Star Wars fans considered that a Star Wars film is not Star Wars film unless it has the Fox fanfare, it has been missing since Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Monday, 6 November 2017
Panorama and how the BBC views it.
The long running BBC news strand Panorama has hit the headlines again due it's investigation into tax havens and how many high profile individual and groups use them. Yet at times the BBC has treated the programme in a very curious manner. Since it's inception in 1953 has every now and again made headlines, in a hoax it transmitted a report about spaghetti being grown on tress. Of course as a hard news programme it has hit the headlines itself most famously in 1995 an interview with Princess Diana had her remarking of her marriage to the Prince of Wales ' there were three of us in that marriage' referring of course to Camilla Parker-Bowles. Yet at times it is seen as non-attractive viewers, in the 1970s when told his sit-com Bless This House was to go out on a Monday night the actor Sid James was delighted as he known it would go against Panorama and draw a large audience. However things changed when Michael Grade became controller of BBC1 and moved Panorama to 9:30 pm after the 9'0 clock news. It stayed there until 1997 despite the grumbling of Grade' successors in the role at having 70 minutes of unbroken news when the then acting controller Mark Thompson moved it to 10 pm. in 2000 due to schedule changes iniatied by then Director-General Greg Dyke, Panorama (which had always been on a Monday) was moved to a late night Sunday slot and less editions were made. However in 2007 Panorama returned to Monday nights due to an edict from the BBC Board of Governors, although it was put an slot opposite the second Monday night episode of Coronation Street. However the one thing that can be said of Panorama is that it has stood the test of time while other programmes of it's ilk like World in Action and This Week have fallen by the way side.
The long running BBC news strand Panorama has hit the headlines again due it's investigation into tax havens and how many high profile individual and groups use them. Yet at times the BBC has treated the programme in a very curious manner. Since it's inception in 1953 has every now and again made headlines, in a hoax it transmitted a report about spaghetti being grown on tress. Of course as a hard news programme it has hit the headlines itself most famously in 1995 an interview with Princess Diana had her remarking of her marriage to the Prince of Wales ' there were three of us in that marriage' referring of course to Camilla Parker-Bowles. Yet at times it is seen as non-attractive viewers, in the 1970s when told his sit-com Bless This House was to go out on a Monday night the actor Sid James was delighted as he known it would go against Panorama and draw a large audience. However things changed when Michael Grade became controller of BBC1 and moved Panorama to 9:30 pm after the 9'0 clock news. It stayed there until 1997 despite the grumbling of Grade' successors in the role at having 70 minutes of unbroken news when the then acting controller Mark Thompson moved it to 10 pm. in 2000 due to schedule changes iniatied by then Director-General Greg Dyke, Panorama (which had always been on a Monday) was moved to a late night Sunday slot and less editions were made. However in 2007 Panorama returned to Monday nights due to an edict from the BBC Board of Governors, although it was put an slot opposite the second Monday night episode of Coronation Street. However the one thing that can be said of Panorama is that it has stood the test of time while other programmes of it's ilk like World in Action and This Week have fallen by the way side.
Sunday, 5 November 2017
Friday, 3 November 2017
The missing years of The Bill
UK TV channel Drama had recently started showing repeats of long running cop drama The Bill from it's start in 1984. However the channel has announced that it will be skipping a 10 year period of episodes from 1988 to 1998, this covers a period when the show was a twice weekly half hour show. It's fans will argue that this was when the show at it's most popular. Drama have put forward 2 reasons, the first being cost of paying repeat fees to cast and crew and the other being low ratings. The one thing is clear, fans of The Bill are not happy.
UK TV channel Drama had recently started showing repeats of long running cop drama The Bill from it's start in 1984. However the channel has announced that it will be skipping a 10 year period of episodes from 1988 to 1998, this covers a period when the show was a twice weekly half hour show. It's fans will argue that this was when the show at it's most popular. Drama have put forward 2 reasons, the first being cost of paying repeat fees to cast and crew and the other being low ratings. The one thing is clear, fans of The Bill are not happy.
Thursday, 2 November 2017
A Solo effort or not?
The recent Star Wars films have all had their production problems but the clear winner is the trouble that has hit the spin off film focused on a young Han Solo. The film went into production under the directing duo of Chris Lord and Phil Miller who were more well known for comedies like 21 Jump Street. However just before the film was to cease production the pair were fired, the reason given was that producers were unhappy with their working methods. To replace them Oscar winning director Ron Howard was brought in. Howard rang many changes including changing a CGI character into a live action one. This has lead to speculation that Howard will get sole directing credit however a recent statement by actress Thandie Newton who 90% of her role was filmed with Lord and Miller. We will have to wait a year for the answer.
The recent Star Wars films have all had their production problems but the clear winner is the trouble that has hit the spin off film focused on a young Han Solo. The film went into production under the directing duo of Chris Lord and Phil Miller who were more well known for comedies like 21 Jump Street. However just before the film was to cease production the pair were fired, the reason given was that producers were unhappy with their working methods. To replace them Oscar winning director Ron Howard was brought in. Howard rang many changes including changing a CGI character into a live action one. This has lead to speculation that Howard will get sole directing credit however a recent statement by actress Thandie Newton who 90% of her role was filmed with Lord and Miller. We will have to wait a year for the answer.
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
The return of Jenny
In a recent blog about hanging plot threads, one I wrote about was the character of Jenny in Doctor Who. In the show she was created with the DNA of the Doctor, in the original draft Jenny was killed off however incoming show runner Steven Moffat. But the character did appear in the 7 years of his tenure in charge. Now news has broken that the character will be the main character in an new audio play. Jenny will again played by Georgina Moffett though she now uses her married surname of Tennant, her husband of course being David Tennant the actor who was playing The Doctor in the episode she appeared in.
In a recent blog about hanging plot threads, one I wrote about was the character of Jenny in Doctor Who. In the show she was created with the DNA of the Doctor, in the original draft Jenny was killed off however incoming show runner Steven Moffat. But the character did appear in the 7 years of his tenure in charge. Now news has broken that the character will be the main character in an new audio play. Jenny will again played by Georgina Moffett though she now uses her married surname of Tennant, her husband of course being David Tennant the actor who was playing The Doctor in the episode she appeared in.
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