Excellent, I'd not heard about that….

Also, just b/c I stumbled upon this some time ago, a real rarity: Alec Guinness (as Malvolio), Ralph Richardson (as Sir Toby) and Joan Plowright in Twelfth Night from 1969. It's a curiousity, more than anything, though; many of the younger players are, um, not great.

Oh, I haven't seen either of those. A CBC (!?!) production with Connery?!?! I'll have to track that down.

There are just so many great BBC/ITV/etc. Shakespeare adaptations, so often cast to the rafters with legends but I always worry that, like the Dylan thing above, they might get lost to time. They're how I got to see Holm's King Lear (thanks to a prof I used to teach for) and the late, great Sir Anthony Quayle's…

I was fortunate enough to hear about this before it materialized, so I'm absolutely pleased to the tits to see it published here and how well it obviously turned out. Mr. Warner seems very much to be in the same ever-the-gentleman tradition as Peter Cushing was and, while I rather expected that, it's just nice to…

NICK HOULT!

Never that simple. It's (at least) a double-gyre: society affects culture and culture affects society, often in bizarre ways. (At least in so far as it leaves out science/technology and other domains.) Innocuous case in point: one of the reasons most people associate Christmastime with snow has its root in Charles…

Hey, there goes Grandpa Simpson! ;-)

The irony, of course, is that, in its own raunchy way, SP became every bit as sanctimonious as those things which it aspired to mock. The show's tenor and approach moved increasingly toward being above, well, pretty much everything and everyone; it became just as strident in its mockery of earnestness as any figures…

Yup, saw all 6 eps of WISIS. For some reason, that year had both Dance and Brian Blessed doing panels again for the first time in ages (Dance on WISIS & WILTY, Blessed on QI, WISIS & HIGNFY). But, Dance, of course, is wonderful.

Weirder still: it'll be directed by Barbie Barbet Schroeder.

Ed Balls and Judge Rinder… ugh. And I miss the days when Richard Osman wasn't on bloody everything. Someone I'd love to see back on WILTY: Charles Dance, who was great the first time and seemed to enjoy it immensely. And, just out of curiousity, I'd like to see Glenda Jackson give the show a go, see if she still…

I have a soft-spot for spy/conspiracy thrillers and, yes, this looks pretty generic, but I'll probably give it a look, too. With that cast, it's gonna be kinda hard not to. I just hope it doesn't do what so many cheapo Bruce Willis movies have done: drag in a few big talents, including Willis, for about 2 days of…

He already moans — fucking endlessly — about being a martyr in some way or another. Just today he twatted:

Is there anything, any shared civic tradition, which Tr*mp won't shit on? And, meanwhile, his lackeys are doing the exact same thing in Congress. What a fucking disgrace.

If you've ever seen Bradley speak, say at the Comic Cons or whatnot, he's really quite a charming and funny guy. Here, though, you can see his patience being tested (he's still remarkably cool about it) because Handler just won't stop talking and she keeps blocking him (all of the "I still don't get it") stuff. She…

While not integral to the show, their trash talk and bullwhip will be missed.

One of the most horrific elements — unless the woman/mother can show (i.e., prove) that she was raped. Fucking hell. As if this weren't monstrous enough, how are these mothers/women supposed to prove or even "show" that she has been raped? And worse, what means would be taken to scrutinize this? The UK has already…

Justin Hartley (Green Arrow) is now making bank on This Is Us. He's also pretty good in it.

Not dumb dumb, just young young; you are probably too young to remember that Knots Landing was a terrible soap opera from the 80s. (You should be glad of that!)