When Adrian was on the wrong side of of the line

Tonight sees the start of the fifth series of Line of Duty, the crime drama about AC-12 an anti police corruption unit. Playing Ted Hastings the head of the unit is Adrian Dunbar who has been in other shows that have had rather dubious Policemen. Including being a corrupt one in the second series of Ashes to Ashes. Dunbar's character is involved of group of corrupt Copper attempting to pull off an armed robbery but of course it is foiled by the taciturn Gene Hunt as played by Philip Glenister and Adrian character's plays with his life. Earlier series 2 other corrupt officers were played Shaun Evans and Roger Allam now best known as the more morally upright young Morse and his mentor Fred Thursday. The other main role in Ashes to Ashes Alex Drake was played by Keeley Hawes who herself played an officer under suspicion in Line of Duty before being killed off.

Long time readers will know that the Ashes to Ashes 2nd season finale made my top episodes of Life on Mars/ Ashes to Ashes

Shane Rimmer (1929 -2019)

The death has been announced of the actor Shane Rimmer. Over a long career Rimmer can claim to have to have worked on some of the biggest hits of both Film an TV however his best known role just required his voice for that of Scott Tracey in Thunderbirds. Among his film work they were 3 James Bonds (You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are Forever and The Spy who Loved Me) films, the first 3 Christopher Reeve Supermans, Stars Wars - An New Hope and Batman Begins. His other TV work included Doctor Who serial The Gunfighters and a stint on Coronation Street. Shane Rimmer leaves behind a body of work on some the biggest pop culture titles of all time.

Shane Rimmer R. I. P

I quit... er I don't

5 times World Darts champion Raymond Vnn Barneveld after only a day announcing his decision to retire from top flight Darts. Berneveld had announce his decision after a defeat at the Premier League. He blamed his loss of form on personal problems. Barneveld now intends to make his last competitive appearance at the PDC World Championship at the end of the year.

2019  BAFTA TV award nominations

The big news was the omission from Best Leading Actor of Bodyguard star Richard Madden. However despite killed halfway through Keeley Hawes is up for Best Leading Actress where she will be up against the Killing Eve duo of Jodie Cormer and Sandra Oh with Ruth Wilson completing the line up for Mrs Wilson in which she played her own Grandmother. Hawes is also up for Best Supporting Actress also in Mrs Wilson where she will be against Fiona Shaw for Killing Eve, Billie Piper for Collateral and Monica Dolan for A English Scandal. Ant & Dec still got nominated after their rather muted year, The winners are announced at a ceremony next month

Running in the family

Jason Donovan's daughter Jemma has signed up for a role in the soap that made her Father a teen icon, Jason had an on and off screen romane with Kylie Minouge, Jason off the back of his role in Neighbours had a succesful singing career and a popular run in the stage muiscal Joseph and His Techincolur Dreamcoat, Jemma will become the third member of her family to appear in the show as her grandfather Terence had also appeared on it. Jemma will be seen later this year.

Apple taking a bite...

The latest name to throw their hat into the Streaming market will be tech giant Apple. Competing against the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime and the froth coming Disney +. Apple have announced a list of talent that will providing content to the new service. Among the names are J J Abrams, Jason Momoa and Steven Speilberg. Recently Speilberg caused a bit of a fuss when he tabled a motion that Netflix films should not be considered for Oscar consideration unless they have regular cinematic release patterns. We will just to have to wait and see what effect Apple have on the market..

Awful quiz show answer of the day 25-03-20119

On today's Tipping Point a contestant was asked which breed of Reddish Brown horses share an name with a type of window. The contestant answered Velux, this reduced host Ben Sheppard into a massive fit of giggles. The actual answer is Bay.