almost witty

Last night, we were at a sports bar grabbing a bite to eat. A sports bar with about sixty thousand LCD screens showing various moments from American TV - including coverage of the Ultimate Fighting Championships - which just about has to be the most homoerotic thing to be screened on American television.
Well, how [...]

So, Doctor Who takes a year off…
It was rather inevitable really. Plus people on the production team had been muttering in interviews how tired they were, and how they wanted a break. With most long-running TV programmes that take 9 months to film, there’s an ensemble cast that allows actors to take the odd break. [...]

Tennant. Stewart. Together on stage doing Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Summer 2008.
On one hand, it pretty much guarantees Tennant won’t stay beyond the next series of Who. Unless there’s an extended hiatus or some other piece of trickery.
On the other hand, c’mon! Tennant! Stewart! Hamlet!
I only hope the front row isn’t filled with [...]

Gawd bless Google Video, and all who use her. For she has put up on the web a classic episode from Saturday Live, the LWT show that helped to bring then-alternative comedy (and people like Ben Elton) into the living rooms of 1980s Britain.
Never mind that it was probably 25 (!) years ago!

ok, it was fine to suddenly have the Doctor played by a charismatic actor who could effortlessly charm the pants off everyone - even my little sister - and make everyone fancy him.
It’s fine to have David Tennant as the Doctor, a man so “nice” and charming that even his self-filmed DVD extras are good [...]