Before real Full Monty
The week ITV have been showing The Real Full Monty in which celebrities strip off for charity. One of them is Alexander Armstrong, those who remember his sketch show with Ben Miller for Channel 4 that ran between 1997 and 2001 will know the he is more than comfortable with going nude. One running sketch was Nude Practise a spoof of rural dramas like All Creatures Great and Small that saw Armstrong, Miller and co-star Sarah Alexander play nudist family members who run a veterinary pratice. However only season 3 is available on DVD so if you the Pointless host in all his glory you do have a bit of a search.
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Moonraker, the novel and the films
This Saturday on BBC Radio 4 the latest adaptation of Ian Fleming Bond novels starring Toby Stephens as 007. Those who only familiar with the film being the tale of megalomaniac Hugo Drax's attempt to commit global genocide may be surprised to find Drax (being played on radio by Samuel West) as a vengeful Nazi out to destroy London with a nuclear missile. That is not say that elements of the novel have not made it to the films. Please be aware there are SPOILERS.
The Spy Who Loved me (1977)
Bad guy Stromberg (as played by Curt Jurgens) plans to start WW III by having hijacked nuclear submarines launch ballistic missiles at both New York and Moscow. Bond foils this by changing the submarines to target themselves. In the novel Moonraker Bond redirects the missile to Target the submarine Drax is making his getaway
A View to a Kill (1985)
Tycoon Max (Christopher Walken) Zorin passes himself as an anti communist East European refugee when he really is a KGB agent. The novel Drax is seen by the public as a British war hero injured when he really was a disguised Nazi commando injured in a failed operation.
GoldenEye (1995)
Like Drax MI6 traitor Alec (Sean Bean) Trevelyan has a motive that dates back to the Second World War. The son of Cossacks whose group worked with the Nazis only at the end of the conflict sent back for execution by Stalin. His plan involves London being hit with a space based EMP weapon.
Die Another Day (2002)
Having spent an year in a North Korean jail following a mission supposedly killing Colonel (Will Yun Lee) Moon and being betrayed by a double agent Bond finds himself on the trail supposedly respectable business man Gustav (played by none other than Toby Stephens) Graves who is in fact Moon after a surgical procedure to change his identity. In early drafts the Moonraker character Gala Brand appeared however after rewrites she was changed to the traitorous Miranda Frost as played Rosumnd Pike who would later go on to play Pussy Galore opposite Stephens in the radio version of Goldfinger in 2010.
This Saturday on BBC Radio 4 the latest adaptation of Ian Fleming Bond novels starring Toby Stephens as 007. Those who only familiar with the film being the tale of megalomaniac Hugo Drax's attempt to commit global genocide may be surprised to find Drax (being played on radio by Samuel West) as a vengeful Nazi out to destroy London with a nuclear missile. That is not say that elements of the novel have not made it to the films. Please be aware there are SPOILERS.
The Spy Who Loved me (1977)
Bad guy Stromberg (as played by Curt Jurgens) plans to start WW III by having hijacked nuclear submarines launch ballistic missiles at both New York and Moscow. Bond foils this by changing the submarines to target themselves. In the novel Moonraker Bond redirects the missile to Target the submarine Drax is making his getaway
A View to a Kill (1985)
Tycoon Max (Christopher Walken) Zorin passes himself as an anti communist East European refugee when he really is a KGB agent. The novel Drax is seen by the public as a British war hero injured when he really was a disguised Nazi commando injured in a failed operation.
GoldenEye (1995)
Like Drax MI6 traitor Alec (Sean Bean) Trevelyan has a motive that dates back to the Second World War. The son of Cossacks whose group worked with the Nazis only at the end of the conflict sent back for execution by Stalin. His plan involves London being hit with a space based EMP weapon.
Die Another Day (2002)
Having spent an year in a North Korean jail following a mission supposedly killing Colonel (Will Yun Lee) Moon and being betrayed by a double agent Bond finds himself on the trail supposedly respectable business man Gustav (played by none other than Toby Stephens) Graves who is in fact Moon after a surgical procedure to change his identity. In early drafts the Moonraker character Gala Brand appeared however after rewrites she was changed to the traitorous Miranda Frost as played Rosumnd Pike who would later go on to play Pussy Galore opposite Stephens in the radio version of Goldfinger in 2010.
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Awful quiz show answer of the day: 27/01/2018
On today's edition of Tipping Point contestants in which quiz show did Balilol College, Oxford beat Wolfson College, Cambridge in the 2016/17 series. One quickly buzzed in with the answer The Boat Race which of course is a sporting event. The correct answer is University Challenge.
On today's edition of Tipping Point contestants in which quiz show did Balilol College, Oxford beat Wolfson College, Cambridge in the 2016/17 series. One quickly buzzed in with the answer The Boat Race which of course is a sporting event. The correct answer is University Challenge.
Monday, 26 March 2018
Simon goes to the Beeb
Simon Cowell's production company Syco Entertainment are to produce an new talent show called The Greatest Dancer. What makes this announcement interesting is that it is being produced for BBC1. Cowell has been associated with ITV since the first series of Pop Idol and since then other shows like The X-Factor and Britain's go Talent. Another difference with other Syco shows will be the absence of mean spirited (including himself) judges. Will The Greatest Dancer prove that Simon Cowell can work with the BBC? Time will tell.
Simon Cowell's production company Syco Entertainment are to produce an new talent show called The Greatest Dancer. What makes this announcement interesting is that it is being produced for BBC1. Cowell has been associated with ITV since the first series of Pop Idol and since then other shows like The X-Factor and Britain's go Talent. Another difference with other Syco shows will be the absence of mean spirited (including himself) judges. Will The Greatest Dancer prove that Simon Cowell can work with the BBC? Time will tell.
Saturday, 24 March 2018
When actors complain.
It has become common practise for well known actors to complain about the career choices they have made. The latest, Christopher Eccleston. In an interview with the Radio Times Eccleston claims to have been blacklisted by the BBC after quiting after just one series. Claims that working on Hollywood Blockbuster made him want to slit his own throat. What Eccleston and others like him should realise such productions were be their biggest exposure.
It has become common practise for well known actors to complain about the career choices they have made. The latest, Christopher Eccleston. In an interview with the Radio Times Eccleston claims to have been blacklisted by the BBC after quiting after just one series. Claims that working on Hollywood Blockbuster made him want to slit his own throat. What Eccleston and others like him should realise such productions were be their biggest exposure.
Friday, 23 March 2018
The return of Michael Barrymore
An new documentary about the late comic Larry Grayson will see the first TV appearance of Michael Barrymore. It will be Barrymore's first TV appearance in 16 years. His profile was hit when builder Stuart Lubbock drowned to his death in Barrymore's swimming pool at his home during a party at his home. Even though he was never found to have any criminal culpability in Lubbock's death Barrymore has maintained a low profile these past few years. Barrymore will be talking about how he was a warm act for Grayson's tenure as host of The Generation Game. The documentary will shown on ITV3 over Easter.
An new documentary about the late comic Larry Grayson will see the first TV appearance of Michael Barrymore. It will be Barrymore's first TV appearance in 16 years. His profile was hit when builder Stuart Lubbock drowned to his death in Barrymore's swimming pool at his home during a party at his home. Even though he was never found to have any criminal culpability in Lubbock's death Barrymore has maintained a low profile these past few years. Barrymore will be talking about how he was a warm act for Grayson's tenure as host of The Generation Game. The documentary will shown on ITV3 over Easter.
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Stupid reason to be axed from a band
Chris Joyce the original drummer for Simply Red was fired far a rather bizarre reason. During the recording of the 1991 album Stars , Joyce services were dispensed with because lead singer Mick Hucknell was looking for a drummer who could drum like a drum machine. Hucknell found such a person in Gota Yashiki. Stars would prove to Simply Red's most successful album.
Chris Joyce the original drummer for Simply Red was fired far a rather bizarre reason. During the recording of the 1991 album Stars , Joyce services were dispensed with because lead singer Mick Hucknell was looking for a drummer who could drum like a drum machine. Hucknell found such a person in Gota Yashiki. Stars would prove to Simply Red's most successful album.
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