Sue leaves a question

 It has been announced that Sue Barker is leaving her role as host of A Question of Sport. She has done it since 1997. The show undergoing a major shake up with both team captains Matt Dawson and Phil Tuffnell leaving as well. An new formal.coming into place but no further information on that.

A million is won

 The first million pound jackpot winner in 14 years has happened on Who Wants to be a millionaire?. Donald Fear won a million pounds by answering a question on pirates. The most impressive part of his win was that he only used only one of his four life lines.

When Cathy becomes Emma

 The deaths of both Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg highlights a curious fact about The Avengers the TV show that they both starred in. When Blackman starred in the show it was made in TV studios with low grade cameras in  black and white. The latter half Rigg's tenure on the show was made in colour. An number of Blackman's episode were remade in colour. One such example  being 1963's Dressed to Kill which was remade in 1967 as The Superlative Seven with notable guest stars Charlotte Rampling, Donald Sutherland and Brian Blessed. The only other known example of was the remakes of lost Dad's Army episodes.

Diana Rigg (1938-2020)

 Diana Rigg (1938 - 2020)

The death has been announced of Diana Rigg. With along and varied career in stage and screen. Diana played the major classical roles like Lady MacBeath. She came to public attention  with her role of Emma Peel in TV's The Avengers. Her most famous film role was as the tragic  Tracy in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. In 1990 Diana won a TV BAFTA for her role in Mother Love. Still busy in her later years Diana was nominated for a Tony for her role as Mrs Higgins in a production of My Fair Lady on Broadway. She appeared with her real life Daughter Rachel Stirling in an episode of Doctor Who and played a crucial role in Game of Thrones, Diana leaves behind a large and very memorable body of work.

RIP Diana Rigg

WWTBAM? September 2020 night1 1 report

 The first edition of this run saw 2 contestants take part. Thee first a 19 year old won 8 thousand pounds while the other won double that sum. The jackpot winner is still waiting.

Star Cops - a prophetic show?

 Just been added to the BritBox Is Star Cops. It would come to represent the BBC's last true (barring Doctor Who) attempt at science fiction. It ran for only 1 series in 1987. Set in 2047, it starred David Calder as Nathan Spring the head of an outer space police force that investigated such crimes as radio active waste smuggling. The show was created by Chris Boucher who had worked on Doctor Who in the 1970s while another Who writer who worked on Star Cops was Philip Martin.  The show was beset by so many production problems that one script was left unmade. What of the show itself? there are many interesting ideas on show with one in particular a computerised box that that Spring consults. A forerunner of Alexa?

A true Jack Reacher

 A true Jack Reacher

Amazon Prime has announced that Alan Ricthson has taken the title role in it's Jack Reacher series. A lot of fans of the Lee Child novels will be glad of Alan's casting as he is closer fit to how Child  describes his hero. The casting of Tom Cruise never sat well with fans of the character due to his being as as tall as the character.