My Family at 20
Given the current circumstances the BBC have had to ration episodes of EastEnders. So to fill the gap on tonight they are showing the nearly 20 year old first series of My Family. Running from 2000 to 2011 the show could be considered the major hit pre water shed sit com, drawing at one point 11 million viewers. Starring Robert Lindsey and Zoe Wannamaker it detailed the chaotic lives of the Harper family. Now tonight on BBC 1 it starts a repeat run.
Friday, 24 April 2020
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
TV Review: Quia
9 PM, ITV
Starring Matthew MacFadyen, Sian Clifford ,Michael Sheen
Taking us back the time when Who Wants to Be a Millionare? was taking over the UK hearts and minds., Quiz tells the story of the infamous cheating Army Major Charles Ingram. Playing Ingram is Macfadyen who is bemused by how the show has taken over his family with his brother-in-law spending large sums just to get on the show. We also get background on how the show came to be and it's makers. Adding to the long line of famous men he has played is Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrent with the same easy going charm. Quiz is a watchable pitch black farce.
The final 2 parts are on tonight and tomorrow.
9 PM, ITV
Starring Matthew MacFadyen, Sian Clifford ,Michael Sheen
Taking us back the time when Who Wants to Be a Millionare? was taking over the UK hearts and minds., Quiz tells the story of the infamous cheating Army Major Charles Ingram. Playing Ingram is Macfadyen who is bemused by how the show has taken over his family with his brother-in-law spending large sums just to get on the show. We also get background on how the show came to be and it's makers. Adding to the long line of famous men he has played is Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrent with the same easy going charm. Quiz is a watchable pitch black farce.
The final 2 parts are on tonight and tomorrow.
Sunday, 12 April 2020
Tim Brooke-Taylor (1940 - 2020)
The death has been announced of comedy legend Tim Brooke-Taylor. He firs found fame on At last the 1948 Show alongside with other future comic stars John Clesse, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldmen with it being most famous sketch featuring a of Yorkshiremen trying to outdo each out do each other with tales of how poor they were. Tim his greatest fame when with Bill Oddie and Grame Garden he The Goodies. The show that featured London being terroridsed by a giant kitten and an Northern English martial art. After The Goodies finished in 1981 Tim had a role in sit com Me and My Girl and was a regular on Radio 4 Panel show Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Tim Brooke-Taylor R.I.P
The death has been announced of comedy legend Tim Brooke-Taylor. He firs found fame on At last the 1948 Show alongside with other future comic stars John Clesse, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldmen with it being most famous sketch featuring a of Yorkshiremen trying to outdo each out do each other with tales of how poor they were. Tim his greatest fame when with Bill Oddie and Grame Garden he The Goodies. The show that featured London being terroridsed by a giant kitten and an Northern English martial art. After The Goodies finished in 1981 Tim had a role in sit com Me and My Girl and was a regular on Radio 4 Panel show Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Tim Brooke-Taylor R.I.P
Thursday, 9 April 2020
A drip, drip of Eve
The next series of BBC 1's award winning darkly comic thriller Killing Eve will see it's episodes released onto the I-Player platform. This is in compassion to the previous 2 series of the show which were released in whole at the same time on I-Player. This goes against the whole binge watch ethos which prevails British broadcasting.
The next series of BBC 1's award winning darkly comic thriller Killing Eve will see it's episodes released onto the I-Player platform. This is in compassion to the previous 2 series of the show which were released in whole at the same time on I-Player. This goes against the whole binge watch ethos which prevails British broadcasting.
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Honor Blackman (1925- 2020)
The death has been announced of Honor Blackman who played 2 trailblazing Female screen characters Pussey Galore in Bond film Goldfinger and Cahy Gale in TV's The Avengers. Her other film work included An Night to Remember which is considered by many to be the best screen account of he sinking of the Titanic. Other TV included guest spots in the lies of Doctor Who, Minder, and The Saint. There was also a starring role in 1990s sit com The Upper Hand. Honor also had a hit single with Avengers co star Patrick MacNee Kinky Boots both in the 1960s and 1990s.
Honor Blackman R. I. P.
The death has been announced of Honor Blackman who played 2 trailblazing Female screen characters Pussey Galore in Bond film Goldfinger and Cahy Gale in TV's The Avengers. Her other film work included An Night to Remember which is considered by many to be the best screen account of he sinking of the Titanic. Other TV included guest spots in the lies of Doctor Who, Minder, and The Saint. There was also a starring role in 1990s sit com The Upper Hand. Honor also had a hit single with Avengers co star Patrick MacNee Kinky Boots both in the 1960s and 1990s.
Honor Blackman R. I. P.
Sunday, 29 March 2020
Best of - The Sweeney
John Thaw and Dennis Waterman are Jack Reagan and George Carter of the Flying Squad cracking on the crooks of 1970s London. Here are the 10 best episodes
1.Night Out
Reagan finds himself in place in a pub in which it's cellar a gang of crooks is trying to break into the bank next door. Peter Childs who plays the main robber would appear opposite Waterman in an number of episodes of Minder playing a police.
2. Stay Lucky Eh?
A pair of robber are then robbed leaving the crime boss behind the heist hunting down those who ripped him off. Peter Vaughan plays the crime boss in the same manner hi which he played Harry Grout in Porridge and Waterman's future New Tricks co star Alun Armstrong plays one of the robbed robbers.
3. The Placer
Reagan goes undercover in a gang of cargo robbers. He starts to sow discord among them by making moves on the ring leader's girl friend leading to a tense finale at a chemical plant.
4. Faces
Reagan and Carter look into a gang of robbers with ties to terrorists. Playing one of the robbers is Colin Weiland best known at the time for playing a policeman in Z-Cars but in the future would win an Oscar for writing the screenplay to Chariots of Fire.
5. Ringer
The show's first episode. Flying Squad observe a gang of crooks planning their next. Playing the gang leader id Brian Blessed.
6. Pay Off
Carter is asked by a casino croupier (played by Geraldine James) to look into the case of her vanished boyfriend. This leads to a stand off with a gang in a quarry.
7. Thin Ice
A comedic episode for a change. Reagan uses a crook's love for his pet dog to entc0e him back to the UK. Guest starring Brian Glover as a hapless right handman
8. Country Boy
A tech expert is brought in to help Flying Squad look into why alarms are being set off for no reason. What they find is a daring robbery.
9. Sweet Smell of Sucession
The son of a recently deceased crime boss finds himself at the centre of a gang land power but is he as innocent as seems? Guest starring Hywell Bennett as the son/
10. Bad Apples
Reagan and Carter are on the trail of a pair of cops may be corrupt. Interesting to see our heroes against those supposed to be on the same side.
John Thaw and Dennis Waterman are Jack Reagan and George Carter of the Flying Squad cracking on the crooks of 1970s London. Here are the 10 best episodes
1.Night Out
Reagan finds himself in place in a pub in which it's cellar a gang of crooks is trying to break into the bank next door. Peter Childs who plays the main robber would appear opposite Waterman in an number of episodes of Minder playing a police.
2. Stay Lucky Eh?
A pair of robber are then robbed leaving the crime boss behind the heist hunting down those who ripped him off. Peter Vaughan plays the crime boss in the same manner hi which he played Harry Grout in Porridge and Waterman's future New Tricks co star Alun Armstrong plays one of the robbed robbers.
3. The Placer
Reagan goes undercover in a gang of cargo robbers. He starts to sow discord among them by making moves on the ring leader's girl friend leading to a tense finale at a chemical plant.
4. Faces
Reagan and Carter look into a gang of robbers with ties to terrorists. Playing one of the robbers is Colin Weiland best known at the time for playing a policeman in Z-Cars but in the future would win an Oscar for writing the screenplay to Chariots of Fire.
5. Ringer
The show's first episode. Flying Squad observe a gang of crooks planning their next. Playing the gang leader id Brian Blessed.
6. Pay Off
Carter is asked by a casino croupier (played by Geraldine James) to look into the case of her vanished boyfriend. This leads to a stand off with a gang in a quarry.
7. Thin Ice
A comedic episode for a change. Reagan uses a crook's love for his pet dog to entc0e him back to the UK. Guest starring Brian Glover as a hapless right handman
8. Country Boy
A tech expert is brought in to help Flying Squad look into why alarms are being set off for no reason. What they find is a daring robbery.
9. Sweet Smell of Sucession
The son of a recently deceased crime boss finds himself at the centre of a gang land power but is he as innocent as seems? Guest starring Hywell Bennett as the son/
10. Bad Apples
Reagan and Carter are on the trail of a pair of cops may be corrupt. Interesting to see our heroes against those supposed to be on the same side.
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